I woke up saturday morning with the worst splitting migraine of my life (it was alcohol induced, I am ashamed. I drank too much at my birthday party). Now, I usually take medicine for them, but this day was different. I kept throwing up bile and stomach acid ALL DAY. I couldn't even hold down water. I was miserable, I wanted to die. By the time five o'clock rolled around, I had thrown up seven times, and my head was worse, so I asked Dan to come down and take me to the hospital, knowing they could inject me with some lovely pain killer. Now, the thing about hospitals is that they make you talk to at least three people before they let you be seen. And these people keep asking you how much pain you're in from 0-10, and even if you say 8, they make you sit there and answer more questions, then tell you to wait for your name to be called for registration, where they get your insurance information. The registration guy tells you you have to walk outside and down the walkway to ANOTHER place, the "rapid-care" center, which is a great misnomer, where you have to wait for 45 more minutes to be seen. Meanwhile the bright lights are making your head and your nausea worse, and there's a woman next to you sharpening colored pencils with a really loud sharpener. Then they finally call your name, the nurse takes you to a dark room, then you have to wait to see the "doctor", then wait for the nurse to come back and shoot you full of demerol, in the behind.
Now I don't know if you've ever had demerol, but it is truly amazing. You can instantly feel it spread throughout your body, dissolving all your problems. You feel warm and fuzzy, but then somebody comes into the room and asks you for your credit card, somebody else comes in to see you much pain you're in, the nurse comes back and says you look better, then you have to sign the bill even though you are slowly becomming more and more sedated, then finally somebody comes in to discharge you and again ask you how much pain you're in. Then finally they let you go home and pass out for 13 hours. It was absolutely beautiful.
