Rendez vous at the Emergency Room

Nothing can screw up ur evening like having to go to the emergency room of the hospital at 3 in the morning. My roommate last night woke me up at 3 a.m to ask if I can take him to the hospital because he was experiencing immense stomach pain.

So I drove him to the local hospital and checked him into the emergency room... I can honestly say that it was a horrific experience for me. Although its not my first time going to emergency room, but its definitely different when having to go there in the middle of the night. There were alot of sick looking people there...alot more sicker than my roommate.

Its a sad scene when you see old people who are sick and frail looking, lying there one by one in the hallways. I was beginning to feel like I was sick also just by seeing this. Everyone had tubes and wires hanging out of their bodies.

Well, the evening was capped off by seeing someone guy being rushed to the operating room while he dripped blood all over the floor and someone who died being rolled across in front of you. Let me just say it was quite a traumatic experience.

The experience for my friend wasn't much better. When he got there..he had to walk himself to get x-rayed, blood tested, urine tested and then finally saw a what I think a young and inexperienced doctor. He didn't seem to know what's wrong with my roommate, only that maybe he had a stomach infection (no shit Einstein) So the doc hooked him up with a IV and that's pretty much it (It seems that everyone had a IV and its the miracle drug used for treating everything at this hospital)

I realized that the human body is extremely frail. You really don't realize it until you see all these people in the emergency room. It seems that we are all alike and no matter how our lives are different, in the end, we're still fragile.

I just hope that when I get old and start having problems, I don't have to suffer.

Anyways, I stayed with my friend at the hospital until 8 a.m. He was much better when we left, not sure if it was the IV or just that he slept it off...hmmm...