Do Over? yes, please.

I will take a big fat do over for today. I wasted... I mean WASTED today and I am totally pissed about it. Oh, I still have the cough.

So it all started Saturday night when I made some delicious tempeh stirfry. I took my first bite and bam, wrong pipe. I coughed and coughed with out any luck. I swear I felt something go down, the wrong tube that it. As the evening went on I was still coughing a bit and was telling Ernie that I know that there is a piece of food stuck in my lung. yeah, no shit, stuck in my lung. I could have sworn that it was there, top left side. Oh well, I thought, we will just watch it, it wasn't that bothersome. So Sunday happened and I was okay. Coughing a bit and still feeling like there was something there but nothing to visit the doctor about.

Fast forward to this morning. My kids were all dreamy, sweet, sleepy, lovie, little angels but my cough was back with a vengeance. I was having a hard time catching my breath and letting air out all the way. I dropped the kids at Traci's and headed into work. Had a talk with my greatest boss ever, the doctor, who suggested I take a trip to the urgent care. Shit in lungs = nothing to be messed with. Sweet.

Got to UC about 11, sat in waiting room for an hour, got roomed, had a fever, sat in patient room for an hour. Did I mention that I was angry, and coughing? The doctor finally came in and we discussed the reason for my visit. Aspiration, shortness of breath, coughing, fever and she freaked out. Told me not to cough. Don't cough...right. She walked out to the 4 ma/rn's standing around and gave them the one-two. She let them know that this was important, I should not have ever been sitting in the waiting room, a doctor should have seen me right away and blah blah blah. She sent me over for a stat (not so stat) chest xray. The xray was clear but she was still uncomfortable because organic matter does not show up on xray? again, awesome. So she told me that she called the hospital ER and they were waiting for me. Really? ER? Jeezus, I do not have time for the ER. Oh well. I was beyond freaked out by this point.

Erine dropped Henry off at Tracis and away we went into the GERM INFESTED ED. Oh my it was beyond busy. All I wanted to do was turn around and run out of there as soon as I could. I love all the shit that happens in the waiting room. I was trying so hard to watch t.v. but the people are so much more interesting. Waited a good hour to be taken back there.

We go to the room, same room that they told me that I had a 50% chance of keeping "Ruby's" pregnancy because her sac was tearing from my uterine wall... anyways, guess what was next? More waiting. Finally someone came in, a nurse, to ask me why I was there. I responded that I had just been in urgent care and they wanted me to come because they were afraid of aspirated pneumonia. She looked me in the face and said, "So you are here for a cough, a cough right?" Oh my, at that point I wanted to come undone.. DO YOU REALLY THINK I WOULD BE HERE FOR A FUCKING COUGH? IN THIS GERM INFESTED, DISGUSTING, PEOPLE ACTUALLY HERE FOR EMERGENCIES, FOR A COUGH? NOPE, SORRY.

With the red flags thrown up at Urgent care, the emergency room was seeing me for a cough. 6 hours waisted for someone to tell me that if at any point I CANT breath to come back, or if I get a high fever of over 103 to come back and they will see me. Thanks for the paperwork telling me how to take care of my "cough" and the bill for 2g's.

I totally feel okay with that, really, I do. Please, oh please can I just have my day back? Or at least a round of antibiotics to kill the tofu growing in my lung.