6 hours in the ER, pumped full of blood chem, I'm good as, well, 21 days starved

Hi!  Well, 6 hours in the er and I'm good as new.  It was dehydration.

Kidneys fine, no stones.  Blood chem was a mess - filled me full of

potassium, magnesium, other blood chem stuff.

I expected to have blood checked, urine, sit in the waiting room for

several hours, be given some pills, and sent home.  The ER was pretty

full, some with nasty fight wounds, etc.  The triage / admit nurse saw

each of us quickly - she took vitals - I'm pretty sure she said 2 hours

in the waiting room and you'll be outa here.  Not 5 minutes later I was

called and taken back, the gown, etc.  She must have noticed something

in the vitals that scared her pretty good.

Came extremely close to committing me.  Of course, but I didn't see it

coming.  And that's fine.  Had I thought of it I still would have told

them I was on a death fast, needed to finish a book, needed them to

keep me functional for just two more weeks, and then I'd let the 

starvation take its course. After the grilling by the rather nice psych

Dr.  it was clear she was under pressure to get me in the psych wing.

But they let me out.  If you haven't, you NEED TO SEE IRON JAWED

ANGELS.  Same thing happened to Alice Paul, wanted to commit her,

but when they heard her, they couldn't.  Pretty cool.

Potassium hurts like hell in the drip arm.  OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Plus, they gave me an oral dose at the same time - scared the hell 

out of them, my blood pressure and heart dropped to nothing, and oh

God was I sick for about 10 min, and shaking in pain.

The care that some young folks in the DC Occupy moment, Jesse, Brians

girl staying with me all night in the room, brings tears to my eyes.  Just

naturally deeply proficient, and deeply kind.  The staff at GW Hosp was

very effective and very kind.  Put off by the tattoos, etc at first but they

got past it and showed the proper professional respect for me and what

I do.  And kindness. Very cool also.

I've unintentionally been taking probably 1/3 of the water I needed to.

I do learn tho and expect to avoid the same mistake going forward.

3 liters a day is my target, and light yellow pee.  For the next week while

the book gets finished I'll also take electrolyte drinks.

Loving SC forever

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