Duchess of Cambridge pregnant

[JohnnyRingo]

161. I'll remember that next time I have a bad hangover.

Perhaps a trip to the ER for treatment will be in order. I could assume they'd admit me for a few days until I feel better, or at least to treat me for my apparent alcoholism, but I'd assume wrongly. I'd properly be told that hospitals are for those who's life is in peril from a serious illness or injury and to suck it up, go home, and suffer it out. Commoners have suffered through morning sickness like this for a millennium.

The same would happen if I showed up with the flu, strep throat, or even food poisoning, and I don't even have a staff of devoted servants waiting to ease my suffering. My family doctor doesn't come to my palace manse for home treatment. I've never read an obit resulting from "acute morning sickness", and until a licensed physician tells me otherwise, I don't believe that can be termed a life threatening complication of pregnancy. I'm strongly convinced her status as a national treasure is the most likely reason she and the heir in her womb is in a hospital room right now.

I believe this despite the pile on from defensive women here who have also suffered acute morning sickness. It appears many are merely searching for a deeper motive, often citing what they feel are key phrases and misogynous code words for my lack of concern that just isn't there.

I was in a car accident some years ago and badly sprained my ankle. I went to the ER only after I went into a state of shock and spent about four hours there before they put an air cast on it, and rightly told me to go home and see my family doctor the next day.

I didn't feel like they were attacking me with gender bias by branding me a hypochondriac "sissy". I required my situation to be stabilized, not a week of pampering in a private room, and after a few months on crutches and Vicodins, I miraculously recovered. Still hurts when it rains, but I'm not asking for a lengthy line of well wishers to offer up their compassion and sympathy. I'm not exactly a prince you know.