Certainly, there's a very persistent rumor up here in Boston that if you drive yourself to the ER, you automatically hit the bottom rung of the priority list. Because if it wasn't that bad, you wouldn't have driven yourself in.

Well I certainly I got a lot of, "you drove yourself in? do you live alone?" But then got understanding nods when I told them that the hubby was home with the little ones.

I'm pretty sure that I got an IV as opposed to oral meds because they thought I needed immediate action. And I think the check-in time on my bracelet was someting like 2:49am, so I did get the meds within about an hour.