good news, everyone!
So I spent 6 1/2 hours at the Mount Auburn emergency room last night waiting to find out if I had a blood clot–my right calf got really sore Friday night after my mud wrestling match, and then yesterday afternoon it felt like the tender spot had moved UP, obviously not a good sign, and when I called my health insurance nurse line they told me to go to the ER, so I did.
As it turned out, not a clot, although they told me to come in to the urgent care clinic tomorrow for a follow-up ultrasound just to be totally sure. Everyone was extremely entertained by the fact that I had injured myself mud wrestling, and apparently word got around, to the point that by the time I’d seen the resident and the supervising physician,* the x-ray guy came in to take me for chest x-ray and on the way to the room just turned and said to me, “So… mud wrestling?”
Really, the worst part of the evening was telling all those hospital employees that I lost the match,** although they pretty much agreed that there was no shame in me having lost to a woman ten inches taller than me.
The resident who initially examined me (”Mud wrestling… was there alcohol involved?” “No. No, really.”) was also extremely impressed by my ability to relate information relevant to my medical condition. After I ran through my blood clot-related history, he blinked and asked if I was a med student, because “that’s the most pertinent medical history [he’d] ever heard.”
But no, I’m just a sociologist who knows how to use Google and feels motivated to understand why her body is trying to kill her. At least mud wrestling doesn’t seem to have been contraindicated.
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*Who looked like Callum Keith Rennie, yowza.
**I can say this because I brought my laptop and the ER had wireless, although it wasn’t really fast enough to play CoH.
May 7th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
I am glad that it all came out all right, and sorry that you had to spend a long time in the emergency room. I, as it turns out, am a terrible parent. I set my facebook status to “I am basking in glory” that afternoon, giddy with my time trial victory. Then I went to UU, and when I got back I heard from Robin that you’d gone to the emergency room. So whatever mutual friends we have think that I’m callous and heartless, as I was basking in glory while you languished in the hospital. Oh, well.