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Glad everyone had a nice weekend. Mine has not been too good. I did something to my back earlier this week when i was closing my pool. The pain has been getting steadily worse and last night it started radiating down my left arm so I went to the ER around 3am. We expected that I would get a full cardiac workup even though I did not believe I was having any heart issues. As I expected all of the cardiac tests were normal but the night Dr in the ER wrote an order to admit me for evaluation.
Then they gave me a narcotic to relive my pain and I felt a little better and fell asleep for an hour. My wife went to see what was happening and the night shift went home and the day shift would not change the admission order. My only choice was to sign a waiver that I would leave AMA so I did. They did not try to discourage me from leaving because I think they felt the night Dr was overreacting by admitting me as I had no cardiac symptoms other than arm pain and all of the tests were completely normal. They gave me a couple of prescriptions for muscle relaxers and a pain med.
Now my mother-in-law is being admitted to a different hospital for possible GI issues two days before her retirement and planned winter trip to Florida. We are praying its nothing serious and that she wont have to delay her plans for too long. I will call my regular Dr tomorrow and I already have a Chiropractor appt scheduled so maybe they can do something for me. We will also have to see her tomorrow at some point. I am not looking forward to running around tomorrow as driving seems to aggravate my back and arm pain.
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