Last night the roommie burned the crap out of herself making dinner. She wound up having to go to the hospital and be treated for her 2nd degree burns. They gave her some antibiotic ointment for her burn and dosed her up with morphine, then proceeded to send her home. Never mind that they just gave her MORPHINE!!! They let her drive on morphine... I mean, Seriously? That does not seem like a really good idea to me. She made it home safely and was convinced it wasn't that bad of an idea. But what if she had fallen asleep? I suppose that's just the supposed intelligence of southern medicine at its best.
The roommie claims she's okay and "not out of commission." She still went to work. Sometimes I wonder about her pride. She will continue on as normal no matter what happens to her. She's even walked about on a broken foot, because she didn't want to be down and out. While I applaud her determination, this kind of mentality may one day get her seriously hurt, or dead. I worry about that. I'm not saying you should freak out and worry about the most minor of injuries, but when you are hurt, you need time to repair, time to heal. She never does that. When she busted up her hand she insisted on continuing martial arts training as opposed to giving it time to heal. The hand probably didn't heal right, because I notice at times her messing with it and struggling to crack the knuckles like she used to.
I am a firm believer in not being a whiner, or using an injury to be spoiled or lazy. But on the other hand, when you are really hurt you need to take proper care of it. It wouldn't have killed her to take one day off from work, just to let the morphine out of her system, and to let her hand start to heal up. She does a lot of physical labor at her work and it's not going to help her burns to be doing that, she promised to keep it wrapped up which is a start I suppose, because the last thing she needs is an infection.
I suppose the whole point of this is to say, there's nothing wrong with determination. But don't be stupid about it.
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