OP, sorry about your emergency but busted is busted.
I agree the fine should be raised. I think should have points as well. Try being the victim of an accident because some felt they had to answer their phone/text. Not fun. Months of recovery and I personally will never physically be the same. I will always have chronic pain issues now and all I did was sit stopped at light. I have no sympathy for those who break this law. Not even in the OP's case. There were other choices that could have been made, and thankfully no one was hurt this time.
and with attitudes like this, I feel even less sorry. WTF did you want? People to say, "oh poor OP, yes fight the ticket, and all of us in TERB land should know the date so we can support you, hold your hand, hold a rally for your benefit?" Give me a fucking a break.
I got a speeding ticket once. Rushing to the hospital like you, a month before my mother died. I was wrong for doing so and I paid the ticket, and I dealt with the insurance and I have not sped again. That is what normal, non selfish, self-center people do. Sure as shit didn;t come here, post a thread, then bitch and moan and get all defensive when people didn't kiss me ass.
Fight your ticket or don't. No one here really fucking cares. It is not the ticket that makes you the person you are, it is the attitudes and opinions you have expressed in this thread. People will judge based on that. I have.