Needle Hell and Beyond

Ok, so we get to the ER, right, it is the middle of swine flu season, so all these people are sitting there coughing, hacking, wearing masks, and I'm thinkin "Great the wreck didnt kill me, so now the pig flu gets a shot at me".
They came and got me took me to Xray, sat me back in the middle of the pig flu epidemic, and there I sat for the next 2 hours, people watching, you would be amazed how entertaining an ER waiting room can be !
They finally put me in a room, nurse comes to Xray me again, I tell her already been done, she leaves, another hour passes, another nurse comes to xray me, "already been done" she leaves, another hour passes, by then I am getting really sore, there are bruises coming up all over the left side of my body, I have bruises comin up across my pelvis and chest, and right in the hairline of my head, so now I also have a headache, and guess what? another nurse to xray me ! By now I'm gettin ill with the whole process, and I tell B to go tell em I'm leaving, I'll go to my Dr tomorrow, a nurse comes in and says the Dr. will be here shortly, but we need to, and you guessed it, get you Xrayed ! Oh my dear God in heaven, and these people are supposed to make me feel better, SERIOUSLY, ARE U KIDDIN ME? THEY cant even figure out they have tried to xray me 5 times already, if attempts count I would set off a geiger counter and glow in the friggin dark by now!
Dr. shows, checks me out, says I am gonna be really sore for a while and that I need to go to my regular Dr.on Monday, so I'm like fine, now can I go, by now I hurt so bad from waiting to be seen I just wanted to go home, he gives me Rx's and in comes a different nurse wanting to give me a shot, I was like "sorry dude, but I am not taking any shots, its against my religion and besides ya'll were'nt even sure if I needed to be xrayed 5 times, so uh uh !
If you are ever injured in anyway, go by ambulance, you get done so much faster and maybe they won't try and turn into a walking Chernobyl !
Anyway, after all this everything goes totally haywire, I find out I am on Workers Comp, cause I was working, the auto insurance people are calling, from every direction, I can barely get around between takin the steroids, pain meds and pain, I am pretty much couch bound and all these insurance people are tryin to get answers outta me.
I've already seen 2 docs, talked with 4 insurance people and its only been 4 days since the accident, so I figure ya know what, I wanta be left alone for a little while til I am not in a fog,so I can think straight, I received papers from insurance companies to fill out, and my advice to anyone really hurt in an accident, be very careful what you sign while you are still in pain and on meds, or you can royally screw yourself ! Luckily I didnt sign and when I was thinkin straight a month later, still had not seen a specialist and was not able to work, get around or think straight, I hired an attorney.
Next post will be about the trials and tribulations you suffer with Dr's, Insurance, Physical Therapy, Work, basically the whole gamut when you can do nothing but be at everyone elses mercy for something you did not cause! Good life lesson for a lot of people I bet !