5 Hours in the ER Today

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Well, that was an exciting day with mom today. Spent it at the ER because she has been complaining of foot pain for a couple of weeks, and this morning—she lives with my sister—she called her in tears, my sister had worked the night before, it was my day with mom anyway, and she asked if I could take her. "Sure," I said. Even though I know a trip to the ER is like a three-hour tour on the SS Minnow. We had both suspected it was probably arthritis, but just to be sure, we figured, why not just go through the process and get an answer. Sure enough. It's osteoarthritis, according to the X-Rays. As the doc put it, "Her bones don't even look like bones anymore. They look like cauliflower." Wonderful. Of course, there's nothing that can be done. Just take some anti-inflammatory medications and use topicals. The usual for that sort of thing. But we spent almost 5 hours in the ER dealing with this. Meanwhile the people in the waiting room were farting, holding puke bags, one guy was apparently going through withdrawals of something or the other... What a mess of people.