I was ill for the last few days…I had a common flu and although the swine flu hasn’t hit mi city yet, the healht care center of my town is *SO* shitty and crowded with ppl sicker(winter season here so go figure how crowded hospital/health care center are) than me that i don’t dare to put a foot into the building under the risk to get more diseases or worst, even to die (yeah health system is that shitty over here)…I suggest you to wait what it needs to, I don’t think your leg will rot or explode while you wait for your turn…i don’t want you to get swine flu or another kind of flu…

Gaspard de Coligny wrote:
I still have some resin, epoxy and fiberglass cloth if you need a strong cast…

Thanks for the offer, but I already know the drill.

Three years ago, I spent four days in a temporary cast and ice before my leg was scheduled for surgery.

Since two emergency rooms “refused” me this afternoon with a bleeding leg (a pin in my lower leg bone came loose), I just pulled out my old temporary cast and put my leg on ice until tomorrow. That is the same treatment I would have received if I was admitted as in-patient.

Technically I was not really “refused”—I was just given an honest appraisal from the admitting/triage nurse that today (and tomorrow) that any ER treatment for me may take more 8 hours waiting in hallway since day is Golden Week “U-Turn” and many emergency rooms are at 800% of capacity.

I suspect that Mainichi news article that I quoted above might be sensationalizing this non-news a bit. The Mainichi knows that every year at the end of Golden Week emergency rooms (which are manned the lowest-ranking, youngest staff during the holidays) get over-crowded and all sorts of problems happen.

I still have some resin, epoxy and fiberglass cloth if you need a strong cast…