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Saturday 3rd Feb 2007
So today was fun. What is wrong with this lap-top? It feels like there's some gelatinous matter stuck somewhere underneath the keyboard, moving around from key to key. Anyway. Some police officer dude was meant to be coming round some time this morning (no later than 2pm, I told them), but I thought a hospital A&E visit would be prudent, now that my bruised knees had had a night to sleep on it. Saturday morning seemed like a good time to visit A&E and certainly much better than Friday night. Nose bleeds and drunkards, sobbing, malevolence, confusion and general bad feelings. I didn't wanna be a part of that again. Saturday morning at the infirmary - it was dead. When I arrived (along with M**** and A******) we were the only ones in the reception area and I was seen to within a couple of minutes. I was seen by someone called Gill and, after waiting about five minutes, a GP (?!) called Howard, who moved my legs around, poked the knee-caps and stuff. Howard ordered an x-ray, so off we went. Gonad guards. The x-ray room had pinned to the wall various gonad guards, of different sizes. I needed not such things as the x-ray to my left knee seemed quite localised. The x-ray machine was made by Siemens. I handed in the x-rays and following a lengthy wait (30/40 minutes) was seen again by the previous GP who explained the results of the x-ray: no obvious fracture, but substantial internal blood/fat/muscle swelling or something. Gill had told me to go straight to the police station when I was done, so this we did. I spent ages waiting around in reception at the police station. M**** and A****** went home, and I rang 'em when I was done. After waiting what seemed like one hour (fortunately I had brought along Philip Pullmans's 'Northern Lights' with me), I spent no more than five minutes with an officer who merely took the details of the driver (given the number plate, they had all the information they needed - M**** had explained this to me before), informed me I had a legitimate claim for compensation and such like and confirmed what I already knew about insurance protocol. They had given me a compress (?!) and a modern splint (two metal bars at the back of the leg, wrapped around with fabric and velcro) at hospital and recommended rest and ibuprofen, so this I did. But no advice was given about walking or how long and how often the splint should remain attached. I am in no pain, just discomfort. Hmmmmm. We had dinner at Helen and Stu's in the evening, which was good.

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