Record your symptoms, gauge your pain, prepare for your arrival so I have more on hand than some mild painkillers for your previous discomfort rather than your current. Information is everything, Red. Withholding it from your physician is foolish and you are smart enough to know you should have called.

[ Such anger, such disappointment. ]

Hope, the spirit itself aside- is a thief. It borrows time and effort better spent on planning or executing what must be done. Had I not planned for the possibility of failure, I would be dead, not singed.