(typing 1-handed now; tied up to IV; will narrate e.e. cummings style). doc says he wants to talk to someone, returns 15 minutes later, wants me to go to emergency room. now i'm in a curtained enclosure, in one of those stupid assless gowns, waiting on the gears of the healthcare bureaucracy to grind. emergency room doc says "could be just an infection," but wants to consult with surgeons. everyone is being mightily uninformative as to why i've been deemed ER material. "could be nothing" is the typical response. "well, what might it be if it were something?" "oh, you'll have to speak to the doctors about that." doctors are of course noncommittal. rinse and repeat. meanwhile, i'm trapped here all-but incommunicado, this surreptitious laptop w/ its dwindling battery my only lifeline to an outside world i'm starting to forget...

grumpily,