(Fish and visitors ( and leftovers) stink after 3 days._ to paraphrase Ben Franklin. May take longer with modern a/c and refrigeration but the result is the same.
http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2019/12/18So, about a month ago I slipped on some stairs and touched the floor (as the road racers say) hard. Shrewdly, I broke my fall with my kidney and limited the damage to a single fractured rib and torn connective tissue of some sort around the top of my pelvis. Doesn’t sound like much, but it turns out to be enough to ruin your day. But not enough to convince certain personalities to go straight to an emergency room. Not straight there. But eventually, briefly, and to turn around before the triage desk and go back home. (The place was packed, and since I wasn’t short of breath or bleeding out, I would have been there the rest of the day and well into the night, in the process catching something from one of the other people waiting there and dying from that. There’s your triage.)
A week later, my condition had not changed a bit, and I reconsidered my decision and returned to the emergency department. This time it was the day after Thanksgiving. More importantly, it was a few minutes after 4AM, and I thought, well, at least I’ll beat the morning heart-attack crowd. Which is a thing. That I did beat. I was out of there in a lightning-fast six hours or so. Because — and here is the relevant point of all this, finally — I had also beaten the post-Thanksgiving food-poisoning and gastric distress rush. That, too, is a thing.
sandpiper almost 5 years ago
(Fish and visitors ( and leftovers) stink after 3 days._ to paraphrase Ben Franklin. May take longer with modern a/c and refrigeration but the result is the same.
Travis Harden almost 5 years ago
You’re just putting up lights NOW?
Seed_drill almost 5 years ago
It was 16 years ago that I was hospitalized for three days thanks to the shrimp from the surf and turf at a Steak and Ale Christmas party.
Lyons Group, Inc. almost 5 years ago
Wonderful, another El Stingo.
becida almost 5 years ago
Nobody does food poisoning if they can help it… especially more than once!
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 5 years ago
Blog PostsFrazz13 hrs ·
http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2019/12/18So, about a month ago I slipped on some stairs and touched the floor (as the road racers say) hard. Shrewdly, I broke my fall with my kidney and limited the damage to a single fractured rib and torn connective tissue of some sort around the top of my pelvis. Doesn’t sound like much, but it turns out to be enough to ruin your day. But not enough to convince certain personalities to go straight to an emergency room. Not straight there. But eventually, briefly, and to turn around before the triage desk and go back home. (The place was packed, and since I wasn’t short of breath or bleeding out, I would have been there the rest of the day and well into the night, in the process catching something from one of the other people waiting there and dying from that. There’s your triage.)
A week later, my condition had not changed a bit, and I reconsidered my decision and returned to the emergency department. This time it was the day after Thanksgiving. More importantly, it was a few minutes after 4AM, and I thought, well, at least I’ll beat the morning heart-attack crowd. Which is a thing. That I did beat. I was out of there in a lightning-fast six hours or so. Because — and here is the relevant point of all this, finally — I had also beaten the post-Thanksgiving food-poisoning and gastric distress rush. That, too, is a thing.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 5 years ago
I’ll bet the day before Thanksgiving was empty. Yes hospitals do staff then too I found out too late. And most do not come thinking they are closed.
Skeptical Meg almost 5 years ago
Christmas and Hannukah AND, for the Pastafarians, Holiday.
rgcviper almost 5 years ago
I feel the same way. Time flies when you’re having fun.
Or something like that.