I don't like to just focus on solely the negative aspects of my hospital stay last night so I wanted to highlight something that happened to me that I found incredibly funny to bring balance to my otherwise negative recent posts.

After getting to the first clinic they basically said there was no guarantee of being able to see a doctor as a walk-in (their appointments had been full that day) so I made a choice to head straight to the hospital since, even if I had seen a doctor, they...

I woke up this morning still angry at how a major hospital through the collective will of it's combined personnel could have turned me out into the street last night at 1:30 AM with no place to sleep or no place to go. Without even so little as some pain killers to keep the pain at bay for even just last night!!

That's insane!

If I had not insisted and put my foot down and pushed the fact that I had been assured by one of their doctors that such a thing would not happen...

Be forewarned that this post is not going to be pretty. I am rather perturbed.

While there were a number of things that happened to me today that are to be commended in how some others treated me, overall my experience was less than satisfactory to say the least.

I have just arrived home from the hospital. It's 1:30 AM (or thereabouts). My one knee is swollen worse than when I set out on my round of doctor and hospital visits today. Mainly due to one doctor poking...

It's incredible how wishy-washy my moods can be -- another human frailty I need to work on strengthening! (So much to do, and so little time!)

Why in the world would my happiness depend on whether the sun is making it to me, or being blocked by clouds? It must be either chemical, or an ingrained foreboding from our days in the caves. At any rate, I need to live a more spiritually based existence.

Until that time -- THANK GOD it isn't raining and the sun is out!

I decided that in view of my worsening medical condition (my leg is swollen worse than ever and I am now having to take constant pain killers to allow me to function not to mention that I have had a fever on and off for a couple of days) that is is best for me to go and see a doctor.

So given that I still have my mind, my fingers, my voice, and am able to call out through Skype I started in on researching California medical care to see how I might go about seeing a doctor, renew a...