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Let me just start there since it was the unexpected kickoff to my summer this year. A few weeks ago a screaming headache landed me in the ER on one of the first truly warm evenings of June. The light was blinding as I parked on top of an orange cone blocking the particular parking spot I chose. There were no others and I didn’t care. I told the woman at the front desk that my doctor had sent me, that she thought I had meningitis and that there was no way I could sit in the waiting room with the droning fan and screaming TV. She told me there was no way I was sitting in the waiting room anyway if I thought I had meningitis. She wheeled me into the first available exam room. A few hours and a spinal tap later, a doctor told me he had good news and bad news.

“You want the good or the bad first,” he said.

My head was throbbing at 10 out of 10 on the pain scale and I told him I didn’t give a shit. I actually said those words.

“Alright,” he said, “you’re not up for games. You have meningitis but you are a nice person and we’re going to take care of you. We’re gonna put you in the hospital.”

He could have told me he was going to send me to the moon and I wouldn’t have cared.

My head hurt so badly.
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