UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

I was admitted to the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center’s Emergency Room in the wee hours after I broke my collar bone at the Getty Center. By the time I made it back to my apartment, my right arm was so totally immobilized that I was unable to get up from the couch. The paramedics were called in, and they trundled me off to an ambulance and the hospital.

At first, the doctors were more interested in the bump on my head; so I was first sent to have a CT Scan, which fortunately didn’t look too threatening. Getting an X-Ray of my collar bone proved to be quite a challenge for the radiology department, as I could not scoot from mt wheelchair to the gurney attached to the X-Ray unit. Finally, however, they managed to get an image.

After that, I slept soundly after taking some oxycodone. By the time I woke up, the hospital wanted to discharge me/ It took a couple of hours for Martine to dress up and get to the hospital, whereupon we took a taxi home and I began my slow recovery.