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i spent all of last friday night in the ER after i thought i was having a heart attack or the rare stroke while awake. as i lay in the bed in the ER with an IV in my arm and all those weird patches over my body, i couldn't help but take in my surroundings as the tests were being performed.
on the other side of the curtain next to me was a family and a man who was having kidney problems. the whole time his 'loved ones' kept berating him, telling him they messed up their weekend, and how this better be something or else they are going to be upset. it was very unsettling to hear and i was about to say something as the doctor went in and told the man his condition was serious and they needed to take him to another level for closer observation.
across the way from me, in plain sight, was a man in his late 20's/early 30's who had all the same things going on as me (IV, patches, etc). he laid there, eyes half open and the arm with the IV in it prominently laying by his side. i couldn't help but stare and we made eye contact. in many respects it was comforting to know that i'm not in as bad of shape as he is in, and in a way, i feel he got some comfort from knowing someone younger than him was going through the same thing -- if only by the look of it. ten minutes later paramedics rushed in, scooped him up, and whisked him away presumably to another, more qualified hospital. i said a prayer from him as he left.
a week on, and i am feeling ten times better. turns out i had fluid building up in my heart and my lungs which was causing my left side to go numb and make me feel like i was having a heart attack. i was giving a thing of pills the size of my arm and i have been taking them all week coupled with my new exercise routine. i haven't felt this good since i played football. i still have a massive bruise on my left arm from where the IV was though...