Of course, it was only supposed to be a 23 hour observation, but since when did a doctor ever let anyone out when they said they were going to?

UPDATE 12/30/04: I knew it was too good to be true.  The last blood thinner shot I was given in my belly went "bad".  Instead of leaving a bruise about the size of a quarter, by early this morning, it was more than twice the size of my whole hand, practically black, and very hard and painful.  I also noticed that it was oozing some blood from the shot site and from an older insulin shot site.  A couple of hours later, I was very dizzy, and my husband had to bring me "to"--at which point I realized I had bled all over my lower belly and over my thighs.

I called the doctor, and he had me go in to the ER.  That took eight hours--for an ace bandage and some gauze wrapped around my lower belly to compress the shot sites.  While waiting in the ER waiting room for two and a half hours, I bled all the way through my underclothes and through my heavy jeans--and had blood dripping down into my shoes.  Yet all I needed was an ace bandage and some big squares of gauze.  Why didn't the nurse tell me this last night when I first showed her that it was so much bigger than the other shot sites? 

Then the triage nurse screwed up, and put the wrong colored clip on my folder--so while bleeding, I sat in the waiting room for two and a half hours.  (She put the minor injury clip on it.)  When my husband asked what was taking so long, no one would answer him--even though he told them I was bleeding through my clothes.

The second triage nurse freaked when she saw the hematoma; about six inches from top to bottom and eleven inches wide, with two bloodly areas stuck to my clothes.  She, at least, got me some attention quickly.  (She came on shift at 3, and I was in the back five minutes later.)

In the next day or so, I will be getting a call from Gallup about the hospital, just like I always do.  Boy, will they ever get an earful this time.