[Rappin Mikey]

Messed up my knee pretty bad last night playing B-ball with the guys from work. Tried to sleep, but couldn't. Drove myself to the ER at Baystate at 2:00 am. They triaged me, then I heard it was going to be at least a 5 hour wait. I'm in some prettuy serious pain, so I say F that, and drive to Holyoke Hospital who takes me right away. The Dr. takes a look and thinks it's a maniscus or ligament damage. Writes me a script for 15 percs, tells me to get a referral to New England orthapedics and sends me on my way. Now it's about 4:30 aned I go to a 24 hour CVS to get it filled. As I'm pulling out (it's snowing pretty good at this point), I hear thump, tjhump, thump, thump. I pull over to find I have a huge screw sticking out of my tire and the air is leaking out. I then drive to my parents house, cause the oldman has a hydrolic jack, and I figure he'll give me a hand. Wrong. He's already on his way to work. I somehow manage to change it myself and get to work by 7:30. Prior to this mess, I'm already stressing out because my wife has an ultrasound at Baystate this afternoon. She is a very high risk pregnancy because of her heart surgery last year. And the last time we tried to get pregnant the fetus didn't have a heart beat right around this time (the three month period). Anyway, John the front page brightened my day a bit. I know that's a lot to swallow. But I sure hope my day ends better then it began. Wish me luck.