What were you guys up to at 6:30 am?

Cause I was learning that Ithaca's hospital is in the middle of fucking nowhere. Eric woke up this morning and said that it hurt to breathe, and that it hurt so much he wanted to go to the emergency room. So, we drive out to the hospital. When the nurse asks him what's wrong, he says he has chest pains, which is the magic word in an emergency room. The upside of his choice of wording is that we got in right away: they put him in a wheel chair and scooted him into a room, where he was hooked up to monitors for his heart. The downside is that we got a lot of nice expensive tests done (like 3 EKGs... man I hope the insurance covers a lot of this). We see the doctor for a grand total of 1:30 minutes - she just makes sure he's not dying of a heart attack and leaves. After 3 nurses take blood from him 4 times (one messed up and stopped: one tried twice and got it: and one had to take more blood after his samples clotted) we watched the history channel for 2 hours. Finally the doctor comes in for another minute to tell us "You will go home. Pain was muscular-skeleltal." and then she's off again, and we're left going, "Ok.... are we supposed to leave now? Is she coming back, since she left in the middle of a sentence?"

What we've gathered from the discharge papers is that he experienced some sort of muscle pain, which could be caused from exersion, coughing, or whatever (Eric thinks he might have been sitting in a weird way while letting the bunnies run around). We got a prescription, which we're a little unclear on regarding what it is and what its for, since the doctor did such a fine job (can't wait to get the survey so we can give her a review). He is supposed to follow up with his regular doctor, who we're hoping will give us a better idea about what's going on.

Since I only got 3-4 hours of sleep before spending 4 1/2 hours at the hospital, I called in to work. We went back to bed at noon, so now I feel all bleh. Eric's doing fine. His chest muscles feel sore, but he's not really in pain. Just thought I'd share our adventure with you guys.

~Katie