ER Tales

Just got my bill from my Emergency Room visit - $1700+.  Ugh!  Basically - as everyone knows - health insurance really sucks these days!  

The ER is a strange world of its own - from the "seen it all" desk workers/security guards/nurses and doctors to all the crazies coming in to the just plain old sick waiting HOURS to be admitted.  

And they really should do something about their choice of channels.  I desperately tried to zone out the colon cleanse sagas on the TV infomercials (do we really need to hear how one man saw his daughter's healthy poop in the toilet and it made him realize it was time to hydro-jet his insides?), but the informercial kept playing over and over and over.   It was like being in one of Dante's circles of hell.    

There was more drama in the waiting room than on the TV.  A middle-aged Hispanic man screaming at the laid-back Jamaican security guard - waving a finger in his face and calling him "a LIAR."  A youngish woman in spandex sobbing like a baby - she seemed to be a prostitute who was hit by her pimp.  But if anyone paid attention to her, her sobbing would stop and she'd glow and pose and strut. And a well groomed but burn-out type dude with a bloody, broken nose sitting next to us who exclaimed aloud about how he'd just been pistol whipped by men wearing handkerchiefs over their faces outside Jones - which is a club in a decent West Hollywood neighborhood.  The police showed up and we didn't see the burn-out dude again...  

Those are my ER tales.  Anyone else?????  

Peggie - I know you have some!