I just got back from the VA Hospital. I woke up this morning to this pain in my left shoulder and neck. And then tonight, instantly, I had intense pain in my chest. I thought I was having a heart attack. I got scared.

My friends raced me to the ER. They did an EKG. Results were negative. So I don’t know what that was unless it was a panic attack. I know I was scared enough to ask someone to take me to the doctor. Neighbors in the car and we tore across 395 to the hospital. And I never ask anyone to do take me to the hospital when things are bad. Last year, around the holidays, I was practically immobile and still didn’t want to put anyone out. So I waited.

But this scared the crap out of me. And it was nothing.

The pain in my shoulder they estimated as being soft tissue damage. A shot in my butt of something or other and the pain subsided after about a half-hour. And so here I am, back among friends. And I’m okay.

Pretty happy about that.