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It was a tough ride with Lyft / Uber driver. I could feel flu like conditions washing over me like waves on southern
California beach. Sets of seven. Swells of sweat starting from my feet and working their way to my head before curling
over my neck and crashing out my forehead. One after another. Swelling, rolling, diseasing.
I even felt so bad I told the driver if I pass out just take me to the ER.

The weird thing was when we got to the nearest ER from where I was camping we pulled up to fencing and a security
guard telling us this hospital had no ER. I don’t live in Baton Rouge and the guard telling the driver how to get to the ER
would have lost me at get on the highway………

Still…... so far I had not vomited in car I was in.
So Far.

I kept thinking I must have that Flu everyone was warning about and stupid people acting stupid about vaccinations for
their children were spreading like wildfire because they would rather believe a Facebook Fallacy then a genuine living
breathing Doctor of Medicine.

I was getting weaker and slumped in my seat I knew the routines for ER and this was going to get nasty. I knew how sick
I was but I also knew protocols and finding insurances to get in the door was not life threatening, but if you were Gold
Stamped and holding a Grand in your pocket most people have to wait in line which I never faulted and once had to do
on the Mississippi in a hospital ER I sat for 6 hours………..

In the old days just mention Crohns Disease and I would get a FREE PASS past the ER to a room with a view inside the
hospital because no one wanted to watch me go sick on them. But that was YEARS ago and I was never that sick with
Crohns Disease since.
Other things yes, Crohns no.

We pulled up and I think if I recall the driver tried to get a wheeled chair because they had no wheelchairs but wheeled
chairs and I was starting a fit of dry heaves and vomiting. A ER TECH saw me and came to help. By the time they were
rolling me in I was non-stop heaving.

Admission Clerk looked concerned and a NA and nurse from the back saw me and before I could be admitted to “name
and number line I was being wheeled into the back thinking I was going to fall out of the chair because I could not
breathe and the heaves weren’t letting up this time.

IV went fast and a “TAKE THAT YOU VOMIT SYNDROME” was fast pushed and instantly I stopped vomiting with
every bone in my chest and neck and back going on strike and protesting……….
BUT AT LEAST I STOPPED DRY HEAVING