This is funny story now, but at the time it was not so funny. Awhile back I woke up with an upset stomach. I didn't really think much of it, but it was starting to really hurt. It kept getting worse and finally I started to worry.
I will suffer through most anything instead of going to the doctor, much less an emergency room. So, I am so uncomfortable that I call my doctor's office. I describe the symptoms to the nurse, she says it sounds like an appendicitis to go to the emergency room.
I don't want to go, but I concede. I call my husband at work and tell him I need to go to the emergency room, could he come home - I have NEVER done this before so he knows I am not feeling well. If he can't leave work, I would call an ambulance to come and get me, I am really bad and can't drive.
Mike, my husband, comes home to take me to the hospital. I get dressed, wash my face and grab a pillow to take with me. I look as good as my condition allows me to look at the time.
I go into the hospital, check in, miserable. they send me over to the seating area to await my next instructions. I walk over to where there are the most seats so I can kind of lay down with my pillow. As I lay down 2 agents from my office walk into the emergency room. I sit right up, thinking - I knew I should have put my make up on!!
I say what are you doing here? They told me that one of our friends and co workers was coming into the hospital in an ambulance because she was having chest pains at her doctors office.
The chest pains trump my stomach ache so my friend goes in ahead of me. Finally I go into the back and am having every test under the sun to figure out what is wrong with me? It was not my appendix?
When the office learns that both of us are in the hospital, half the office heads down to see us for morale support. I just want them to leave me alone. Just what you want an never ending stream of well wishers coming to see how you are as you are as you just want to be left alone. We were both okay. My friend was just having an anxiety attack and I had a VERY painful bacteria that was cured with antibiotics.
I always joked with my friend who came in the ambulance that I was going to call an ambulance too. However, I was sure that if I would have called the ambulance, she would have come in a helicopter!!
The morale of the story is never leave the house without putting on your lipstick and always get the emergency room in the flashiest ride you can get there in!!!
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How cute.
Glad it was nothing serious.
Know what you mean about looking your worst and seeing everyone you know.