I wasn’t going to write about my trip to the ER until I could bring myself to write a whole book about it. A heartwarming story about kindness toward others less fortunate, patience with patients, and an unlikely place to be the great equalizer. That was right after it happened, when it seemed so bizarre and San Francisco-slice-of-lifey that I wrote the outline for a 350-page book in my head and was already spending my royalties at Macy’s Chinese New Year red dress sale.
But then the whole experience settled down in my memory and I became just a little bit more jaded and cynical. Also I forgot some of the more outrageous details. Weird things are more and more becoming everyday experiences for me. What I’m left with is a decent blog post about sweet and funny characters. So here we go. [Read more…] about Tales from the ER