Doctor, Doctor Give Me the News

Ever had one of those days where if it can go wrong it will? Tuesday was that day for Miss Moon and I. For the past few days Miss Moon has been suffering with what seems to be plaguing everyone; the common cold. Monday night she took some seemingly harmless cold medicine. In the morning things had taken a turn for the worse. I was woken up early to an erratic and upset Miss Moon. The cold medicine had made her dizzy and shaky, putting her emotions on high. She wanted to go to health services on campus but she did not want to go alone, understandable, neither would I.

We got to health services at seven o'clock, only one problem, they don't open until eight. We were told, just to be safe, to go to the emergency room. We went back to the dorm and I grabbed my keys, along with the address (I had no idea where the hospital was) and then we were out the door.

We got to the hospital and checked in at the desk. Miss Moon vanished behind the ER doors while I stayed out in the waiting room. Thats one thing I hate about hospitals, the waiting. I had no idea what was going it on and it seemed to be taking forever. Finally one of the nurses asked if I wanted to go back and see her.

Miss Moon was in a bed wrapped in one of those white hospital blankets. She didn't have much information either. Thats when the real fun started, tests.

Miss Moon was taken away for a short while to get a chest x-ray. I guess this was to check if her lungs were clear. Next on the agenda was a blood sample. Both Miss Moon and myself hate having blood drawn. She thows up and I pass out. After four vials of blood were taken there was more and more waiting. We had no idea what they were checking for or what they were going to do next.

Since Miss Moon was having mild chest pain they ordered an EKG. The little stickers were placed on various parts of her body with attached electrodes. The procedure took all of two minutes. Yet again we were left in the dark. Finally the doctor arrived and said that she had some slightly abnormal patterns. They were now going to check the blood that they had drawn for cardiac enzyme levels. Why, who knows?

To top off everything they wanted a repeat EKG. The cardiologist came down and said that the patterns were looking abnormal because they looked more like the patterns in a child. I've always teased that Miss Moon is childlike, I guess its true. We were finally given freedom and Miss Moon was allowed to go home. We were there for over five hours. Needless to say she won't be taking that medication again.