Friday, July 9, 2010

Insult to Injury

Fio had an adventure. A tree fell on her head. A cedar, to be exact--one that Husband was chainsawing. Fio, who hauls what Husband saws, didn't realize the tree was falling her way, and Husband didn't realize Fio was behind him. She didn't exhibit a wound or develop a goose egg, but she was a little shaken. She called her coumadin nurse's number, but it was after hours. So Fio, never far from her laptop, spent half an hour reading about how blood can build up between the skull and the brain even when there is no apparent injury, then asked Husband to take her off to the emergency room for a quick x-ray.

What she got was a CT scan, and the doctor who read it announced her brain was normal.

Normal? Fio was insulted.

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