Worries Increase

I type this into the laptop, in the Community Memorial E.R. waiting room on Saturday night. Dad started to have rib pain last night, about six hours after the accident. It grew worse over night, but only when he coughed. By this afternoon, he was having pain just from walking. The pain got worse (despite Kyle's kick-ass performance in the cage during the Titans' water polo game [13 saves--including a penalty shot and a man-down goal--plus two steals and two assists in a closer-than-foreseen 9-6 victory] and not made any better by the Bruin loss in the Final Four).

After the Bruin game, I convinced dad to let me take him to Urgent Care. When he relented, I knew it was bad. At the Urgent Care, we were seen almost immediately, and the doc sent us to CMH for an MRI on his stomach... he fears it may be a lacerated liver... this could be bad. And so we wait.

More to come...

8:05... now in the ER exam area. Pain is worse. He looks worse.
8:45... off to chest xray.
9:30... off to MRI
9:40... met Dr. Johnson. He thinks it's just post traumatic pain. He expects it to subside in the next day or two... until then Vicodin. But he wants to see the results of the MRI first.
10:30...released with a shot of morphine and a prescription for Darvocet

Now, this morning: Dad is in a lot of pain still (to be expected)...