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Since this has become an alternating book reviews and life drama blog of late, today you get.... life drama!
It just seems inappropriate not to note that I spent a perfectly lovely fall Saturday in the emergency room, even though it turns out it was probably just a bleeding stomach ulcer. But I learned a lot of interesting things, like:
1. People who are detoxing from heroin and Xanax are easily agitated.
2. "Chest pains" gets you bumped to the front of the queue, ahead of "vomiting blood" (and rightfully so).
3. It's hard to sleep when the mattress keeps slipping off your little wheeled bed dealy.
4. A book of crossword puzzles helps.
5. Sometimes, people who don't have a book of crossword puzzles will get so bored that they will end up asking you for your number even though you were just talking to them about your devoted boyfriend who spent all the visiting hours sitting with you and trying to get the attention of a doctor so you could get discharged.
Besides my crossword puzzles, I also read The Life of Pi which was maybe not such a good choice because I wasn't allowed any food and only IV fluids and then I was reading about a kid being wracked by hunger and thirst on a lifeboat, which you would think would give me a sense of perspective, but just the opposite. And I finished the 33 1/3 Forever Changes which was quite interesting and incidentally gave me some insights into Roman Polanski and John Phillips and also reminded me that I need to re-read "Slouching Towards Bethlehem".
It just seems inappropriate not to note that I spent a perfectly lovely fall Saturday in the emergency room, even though it turns out it was probably just a bleeding stomach ulcer. But I learned a lot of interesting things, like:
1. People who are detoxing from heroin and Xanax are easily agitated.
2. "Chest pains" gets you bumped to the front of the queue, ahead of "vomiting blood" (and rightfully so).
3. It's hard to sleep when the mattress keeps slipping off your little wheeled bed dealy.
4. A book of crossword puzzles helps.
5. Sometimes, people who don't have a book of crossword puzzles will get so bored that they will end up asking you for your number even though you were just talking to them about your devoted boyfriend who spent all the visiting hours sitting with you and trying to get the attention of a doctor so you could get discharged.
Besides my crossword puzzles, I also read The Life of Pi which was maybe not such a good choice because I wasn't allowed any food and only IV fluids and then I was reading about a kid being wracked by hunger and thirst on a lifeboat, which you would think would give me a sense of perspective, but just the opposite. And I finished the 33 1/3 Forever Changes which was quite interesting and incidentally gave me some insights into Roman Polanski and John Phillips and also reminded me that I need to re-read "Slouching Towards Bethlehem".