MacBros' Place

Yea, after yesterdays ordeal, last night I was having sharp pains in my chest. For the past few days I had this pressure on my chest, thinking it was just either gas or the asmatha. But last night I was jolted from my sleep with this sharp stabbing feeling in my left side of my chest.
It went away just as fast as it came on and I ended up going back to sleep. This morning the pressure was a bit more unconfortable, by this point you’re probably wondering why the hell haven’t I gone to the doctor a few days eirlier, but I am stubborn that way I guess. But anyway, I calld in to works sick line to tell them I won’t be in because I didn’t know what this trip to the out-patients was going to entail. This morning I actually thought it may be something serious, so it’s the I’m sick and won’t be in at all today.
Well I get in, sit down and tell the nurse what the problem is and then she tells me to take a seat. So I walk into the waiting room, and before I can sit my ass down they call my name. I’m thinking, “WOW! must be a slow day”, but noticed others already waiting. Gee, this must be serious! I go into the other room for a 1 on 1 interview with another nurse, you know, the regular questions they ask like, are you on medications, do you have allergies, and so on. So right after the question period, she takes me into another room and lays me down on a bed and proceeds to stick all these stickers all over my chest, wraps a blood pressure thing around my arm, and shoves tubes up my nose to pump oxegen in my head. All the time saying, “This is all normal, these are just the procedures we follow, it’s nothing serious.” I’m sure that is supposed to calm you down, but when you’re wisped straight into examination, you know something’s up. Then another nurse comes in about five minutes later and procedes to tack on a whack more stickers all over me connecting these wires up to them. By now it’s starting to look like some sorta si-fi movie where I’m being examined by aliens with all these wires and tubes all over me.
Then another nurse comes in and takes like 10 viles of blood outta me. All the while they all repeat the same lines, “This is all normal procedure. Nothing serious.” Then, when one of the nurses with the wires was finished, she unhooked her dozen attachements and left the stickers on me saying she may have to come back to take more readings, and walked out of the room.
Ok, by this time I’m thinking, “Phew! I hope that’s it.”
BUT NOOOOOO!! Another nurse comes in and askes me if I can walk. “Walk? What is a walk?”, I said jokingly, “Sure I can walk. heh heh.” She takes me into an Ex-ray room and takes 4 shots of my chest. I go back into the first room get hooked back up to the Oxegen and sit there waiting for the Doctor to come in to tell me what the heck is wrong.
When he comes in he assures me that I wasn’t having a heart attack, but it’s accociated with the acid-reflux that I have. Aparently the esophagus irritation can feel like you’re having chest pains around your heart, and was the reason I was sick yesterday too. So he writes me a perscription and a note for work and sends me on my merry way.
WOW! I thought I was freaking going to freaking die or something. I have to say those nurses did a good job in scaring the shit outta me. I’ve never went into out-paitients and got in to see a doctor so fast before, usually have to wait three hours.
If you want to get in faster, just say you’re having chest pain.

Now I just have to wait for Mom to pop by, so she can lend me some cash to go to the drug store and pick up these perscriptions.
Till then I’m going to take a nap.
Since I have the day off now.