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When Even I Wince
Jul. 26th, 2004 01:59 amLots of proceedures today: LP, patellar reduction under conscious sedation, a large, long hand laceration, an arm laceration, and my wince-in-sympathy kid.
Not that anyone didn't deserve my sympathy today except for the woman who tried to kick, bite and claw the eyes of the hospital security officer, all the while screaming that she was 'going to call her lawyer'. Now. If I was in a hospital, suicidal, and some doctor was stitching up a laceration I'd made when I had tried to kill myself, and someone told ME that I was going to be involuntarily committed... I'd *wait to move* until the needle was, say, out of my flesh, so it didn't RIP A BIG FRIGGIN HOLE in my arm.
Yeah, anyway.
The kid that made me wince in sympathy today was a young man who'd come down hard on the crosspiece of his bike during a fall and had sustained multiple lacerations to his penis and scrotum. (And numbing THAT up made *me* cry, let me tell you.)
He's getting admitted. For pain control. Did anyone besides me see that coming?
Yeah.
Not that anyone didn't deserve my sympathy today except for the woman who tried to kick, bite and claw the eyes of the hospital security officer, all the while screaming that she was 'going to call her lawyer'. Now. If I was in a hospital, suicidal, and some doctor was stitching up a laceration I'd made when I had tried to kill myself, and someone told ME that I was going to be involuntarily committed... I'd *wait to move* until the needle was, say, out of my flesh, so it didn't RIP A BIG FRIGGIN HOLE in my arm.
Yeah, anyway.
The kid that made me wince in sympathy today was a young man who'd come down hard on the crosspiece of his bike during a fall and had sustained multiple lacerations to his penis and scrotum. (And numbing THAT up made *me* cry, let me tell you.)
He's getting admitted. For pain control. Did anyone besides me see that coming?
Yeah.
