I Am More Than Just A Medical Record Number

Please indulge me for one more day. Today I spent over four hours in my hospital's emergency room. I had trouble breathing, and I thought maybe I should check that out. I mean usually I just bitch about feeling bad and rarely do anything about it. But this, I thought maybe I should get it checked out.

Oh, I am fine. A little pluera something -- some water build-up between my lung and its sack. It'll be painful breathing and I'll have shortness of breath for a day or two or so more, but I'll live. I mean I was s happy I left the ED and had a smoke!

But, that's not the point. The point is that I represent hospital leadership at times in ways that make me forget who staff these things. All of the nurses and techs and docs and everyone was extremely talented and professional and just plain nice. Now true, they did know I was VIP, but I got to watch how others were treated, and the whole experience was very eye opening.

So, I am happy to report (i) I am gonna complete this 365; and (ii) I am more than a medical record number to those providing care.

Oh, and anyone wants my identity, have at it. You'll get bad credit, a huge mortgage, and access to my medical record. wooo hoooo.

Oh, and here's the other thing. I am calling in sick tomorrow I think. So, I get to play on flickr all day and finally finally catch up on comments.