ER & Flat Tire

For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter, I paid a visit to the ER tonight. I had some sheet metal pipe on my cart, moved the cart out of someone elses way, and when I spun around to face the cart.. wham! This isn’t the first time I’ve done it, and it probably won’t be the last.

Took longer than I expected for the blood to start flowing, but when it did, I had someone run for some paper towels so I wouldn’t get my sock bloody (I just threw away 17 socks today, so I’m kinda short). My supervisor did a pretty nice job at wrapping it up. Unfortunately, an hour and a half later it decided to open itself up again and bleed through the gauze, so after consulting with Nurse Mom, I decided to go to the hospital. You know, after spending 15 minutes on the necessary paperwork first before I could leave work.

I only waited for an hour in the ER before getting any treatment, which I suppose is pretty good for being the low man on the triage pole. In the end, I got a tetanus shot (because my last one was who knows when) and got the gash glued – yes, I said glued – back together. Nifty stuff.

So that was the good part about tonight. The bad part is that when I left work and came home on my scooter so I could drive my truck to the hospital, it had a flat tire. It felt funny the other day, but I completely forgot to check on it when I got home then. In the process of backing up 3 feet before realizing the tire was flat, I shredded it, too. On top of that, I’m not so sure my spare will hold air, as I know the last time I pumped it up, it was down again a while later.

And as if I couldn’t make my night any worse, I killed the battery on my scooter using the headlights on it when I got home from work for the second time trying to change my tire at 3 in the morning. Also, neither of my jacks are low enough to get under the lifting point, so I ended up jacking it up on the frame with the floor jack, and now it’s sitting out there with the Ford jack sitting comfortably under the lifting point. Can’t wait to wake up bright and early tomorrow (today) to deal with all that!

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