Tricks or treatment

Yesterday was Halloween.  I dressed up as a sick person and went to the clinic.

They couldn't decide if I was a heart attack victim or someone with a brain tumor, but I must have been convincing because they hustled me out the back door and into a large black truck!

The truck drove me over to the ER and dropped me off at the door with a handful of papers.

Eventually someone claimed me and took me to a little room where they asked me why I was there.  All day long people asked me my name, my birthday and why I was there.  I was really hoping this was policy and not legitimate questions on their part.

They attached wires to me, poked holes in me, put me in a machine I thought was gonna bite off my head and finally x-rayed me.

I had left my phone in the car and the only number I could remember was my friend who has had the same number for over 43 years!  Thank goodness she lives close because, many hours later, when I was ejected into the cold and rain far from my car, I didn't know what to do.

Her husband came and rescued me, took me back to the clinic, my car, my phone and I was able to come home.

It was the scariest Halloween I've ever had!