Today’s Derby Winner: My ER Visit

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The Derby winner today was Golden Tempo, which made history! For the first time ever, a female horse trainer won!! Congratulations to Cherie DeVaux, who is on top of the horse racing world with her talents! Derby Day, however, for me was won by My ER Visit. Yeah, that’s a goofy name for a horse, but it was no horse, it was my afternoon. Yes, I’m home. Yesterday (Friday) I had a strange stabbing pain in my upper abdomen right after lunch. Nothing terrible, and I continued on my visit to a state park (more on that later). But, to be safe, I did come on home. Because the Kentucky Oaks was so late in the day I was able to sneak through the back roads and get home. The pain was minimal, but I put a lidocaine patch on just to make sure. This morning I sneaked out again and went to Chuy’s. Almost immediately after lunch I had that same stabbing pain, same place. So off to the VA hospital. Short story shorter: I was there just over two hours. Bloodwork was “textbook normal,” the doctor said. He pushed on my abdomen and I got violent. He said it was most likely GI related (especially given that it happened right after a meal), and he gave me some new medication to use. I was home and asleep long before post time for the Derby. We’ll see what happens with the new meds, but for now the 152nd Kentucky Derby is over and tomorrow morning we have our city back for the next 50 weeks. That’s my ER room in the photo.