In pain

(moved from the old...)

I spent the weekend at J's again. I even went there a day early, because I got two days of sick leave due to this flu... It was OK, I could rest there even better than at home, where I would have been all alone.

Anyway... Friday was bad. My back acted up worse than ever (starting in the morning as we got up), so badly in fact, that we had to see a physician, who then sent us to an ER. It was quite an ordeal: I was in considerable pain all the time and J got to see it all up close. She also got to run some errands, assist me in the bathroom and so on – a lot more than she bargained for, I'm sure (After reading this bit, she denies this; says she's willing to do anything for me).

In the evening, when we finally got back from the ER, via the chemist's (I got some extra strong painkillers for future use), she said she'll still "keep me". Even if this sort of thing happened more often (this was the first time she saw it, and the second time it happened to me). Wow.

Another thing worth mentioning happened at the ER. There was a young student nurse, who did the triage and interviewed me in the waiting-room. At one point she asked J if she was a friend or something. J replied she was my spouse (which was correct, of course), to which the nurse just said (without batting an eye), "I see. All right", wrote J's name down and that was it! No questions, nada.