You would think that spending a day in our local hospital, being transported to one of the nation’s top hospitals in Philadelphia via ambulance at midnight, a week’s stay at said hospital, having just about every medical test there is, including the reputation-precedes-it spinal tap or lumber puncture, your choice, all while suddenly blind, I would be a tough girl. Nothing healthcare related could phase me.
Sister Rain, meet a nasty ear infection that has spread to your jaw and cheek. A typical childhood occurrence has now occurred to me in my 50s.b And it has knocked me on my butt. None of the things I mentioned above are part of this latest malady but I swear the pain is brutal and I would not refuse a morphine drip. and morphine makes me vomit.
Have you ever noticed that small things can become big things and yet the big things rarely end small?