Monday, May 12, 2008

The Slacker King rants about hosiptals

Yes that is me the slacker king. Probably the most ironic nickname ever but isn't that the point of nicknames. I am a workaholic, game-aholic, read-aholic. (spell checker is gonna go nuts). My long time online friends (yes i am one of those people), dubbed it to me. I formed an online gaming guild with 4 other people in 1999 for the game Shadowbane. You can find the current website run by the talented Calistah at http://www.housedaenyr.com . It started as a place for devious minds then evolved rather quickly into a place for casual pvpers as we call ourselves. Anyways I was drilling people in the art of pvp, constantly calling people slackers, working 60 hours a week and running raids on another game. I don't think i slept more than 2 hours a day for 3 years or more. So as you could image I had a stress induced heart attack at 28. Man that put me in place, but what bugged me more was the fact i was kept 13 hours at a hospital they ran like 30 test or so on me. My heart stopped 2 more times while I was there. After all that they told me "We don't know what is wrong, The heart doctor isn't in today." Okay they could have told me that like 13 friggin hours ago. Then they want to charge me for the batter of test and the HOURLY rental charge on an critical emergency room. Total bill $1350 for me leaving there worse than when i came in. My heart still didn't feel right. I got a call like a month afterwards from the heart doctor that said I wasn't getting ANY potassium in my system and recommend a supplement and wanted me to come BACK and run a whole bunch more tests. Yeah right like that was gonna happen. So i have this $1350 medical bill which should go off my credit in a couple of years because I'm not paying for them NOT TO FIND ANYTHING after 13 hours and me leaving feeling 2 inches from the grave. Oh and I walked the mile and a half back to my apartment, but I've kept myself alive on sheer willpower before so nothing new to me.

1 comment:

Derek said...

Welcome to the blogging world slacker! Now we just need to get Dad and Hy setup. I need your email address, we have to get setup as friends on Xbox 360. I'm AnnoyedSpiderX. Interesting read about your hospital visit.