There was blood

[Fenton Murray]

My hero.

> And Ed Foote replies from his hospital bed..... >>

          Whaaaa??  I drove myself to the hospital, tossed the keys to the
valet parking guy outside the ER, ( I think I told him to keep it), bled my
way
up to the reception desk, made a pass at the nurse but somehow she turned on

the stun beam and I started getting dizzy.  Sat down until they came and got

me, (I think it was the janitor, who wasn't going to stand for me bleeding
on
the floor any more).
   Head cleared as the 1 year intern began irrigating the wound. Dang,  I
thought I had wet the bed. There was a blurry stream of doctors that passed
through.  Some of them were asking  me if this was an accident. duh,  (I
felt like
telling them, 'twernt no accident, I meant to see what was inside my leg).

The lidocaine injections started and I got fully awake.  By the last suture,
I
was already thinking about the rest of the pinblock.  A smear of Neosporin,
smell of surgical tape, and I was out the door.
   Total time in ER was about 90 minutes,  $ 2,000.  I made it to my 11:00
tuning and had the block out by 2:30.  THEN  I got the glass of wine just in

time to get a call from Blue Cross telling me that my rotator cuff surgery
scheduled for September was NOT going to be covered.  That was the worst
news of the
day...
  Now, a week later, I cut the stitches out yesterday, Blue Cross called to
say that the rider had been removed several months ago, and life is once
again
good.
   I don't think I will get a hospital bed until I get kilt.
Regards,

Ed Foote RPT
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