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Will probably delete this in a bit because, dunno, feels weird but, a brief COVID is Bad In LA story: had a kidney stone attack about ten days ago or so. Just as bad a people say it is. Normal course of action for, like, everyone in a functioning health system is...
...next day, go in, see a doctor, doctor takes it out in a relatively simple, extremely routine procedure. I could not do that because there are no hospital beds in Los Angeles. So, as is happening all over the city, with all sorts of different painful and life-
threatening conditions (because, turns out, a kidney stone is life threatening if you can’t do anything about it). So the only course of action was to literally just suffer and hope it could pass. With the knowledge that, even if it couldn’t pass, there might be...
Nothing they could do. So, very, very luckily, the hospital with which my doctor is affiliated changed their policies to allow a certain number of resources be put toward surgeries that will become emergencies down the road. I got it done today. On the drive hone ...
I learned that this was the last of such surgeries for a while because all resources are now being reserved for COVID. All this to say, stay super super safe. Avoid not just COVID but your random compound fracture, the overdose anything that can land you...
In the hospital because you literally can’t land in the hospital. An utter systematic failure. A personal thanks to the good work of the Corona Virus Task Force. Amazing work, fellas.
Also, this episode is basically my Michael Jordan flu game: https://q4mn.adj.st/episode/1UvqiR7JgQvP278ZvOQHRP?si=paxdRLaBS8-8RON85pnpLg&adjust_reftag=cDeIVBfb2ISOr&adjust_t=abuwqb&adjust_iredirect=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F1UvqiR7JgQvP278ZvOQHRP%3Fsi%3DpaxdRLaBS8-8RON85pnpLg%26nd%3D1&adjust_notrack=1
