Ridecamp: RE: [RC] Mt. Carmel ER story/endurance is not for snivelers

At 01:26 PM 5/18/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> Karen
> entitled the posting <<</endurance is not for
> snivelers>>> and yet there she was sniveling to the ER staff! A
> true Endurance Stoic would not have gone to the ER until the ride was
> over. 

Actually, I didn't title it that -- Beth
added that part.  I would not have gone to the ER if my dad wasn't
there.  I didn't have a choice.  If he had not have been there,
I probably would have continued riding, though it did start to hurt
pretty bad once the broken bone started moving (clavicle) on the way to
the hospital, so I probably wouldn't have made it thru the rest of the
day.  The part about whining in the ER was just my way of joking
around with them, I asked them if I whined would they want to get rid of
me faster.  They had a really bumpy section of floor on the way to
the xrays and they told me that they did that just to make sure nobody
tried staying too long.  There was no doctor there when I got there
so I had to wait.  I did ask in camp if the vet could stitch me up,
and if she would have done that, I would have stayed there and probably
still tried to finish.  One of the comments I remember hearing was that
they couldn't believe how polite I was, saying please and thank you so
much even tho they knew I was hurting so bad.   k   P.S. 
Don't worry about the sympathy, I don't really want to be reminded about
this whole thing :+/