No human emotion can be sustained indefinitely.

Monday, May 12, 2008

"You could kill two birds in the stones" -My Doctor

10pm Wednesday to Thursday I spent 19 hours in a bed in Emergency trying to stay awake for a variety of testing for some bad stomach problems I've been having. As per usual with my wacky body, I went for a follow-up this morning and they don't know what it is, so they put me on some new meds (two pills two times a day, beefed up to four pills two times a day if I'm not better by Saturday) and I have to go back next week. Meanwhile I'm pretty much bedridden and in varying degrees of pain and discomfort. Yay!

In lieu of providing more details, here is a list of things Jess and I did to keep ourselves awake in the hospital (she made it until 7:00am, and then she started crazy talking so we called Steve in for a shift change). Anyway... we're brilliant.

Up All Night Games with Jess and Bex:

-What is your Jeopardy story? (real or imagined)
-One word stories (like the improv game... Jess kept making them about poo... topical)
-Celebrity Six degrees of separation (Notably connecting Michael Cane to Queen Latifah, and Zack Braff to Gwenyth Paltrow)
-Hospital Karaoke
-Hospital Don't forget the lyrics
-I reenacted last weeks episode of Lost for Jess because she had missed it (including the theme song summary song)
-We gossiped as best we could and tried to overhear the nurses station gossip... it turns out they're pretty boring. Though they did go on a McDonald's run around 3am, and Jess did hear that they were calling me Hard Poke (because my veins are so hard to get). I kind of like it. It makes me seem less slutty.

That's all I can think of at the moment. I'll edit if Jess remembers stuff that I don't. It was our weirdest sleepover ever.

Sunday, May 04, 2008

blood flow

I've had a silly fake mother's day today, including a buffet brunch where there wasn't enough food and we had to negotiate the price of our meal (it was supposed to be $25 per person for six of us, and it came down to $20 for all of us). Then I did some reading and some apartment hunting. I enjoy activities that require minimal movement today.

My tummy has been troublesome again so I'm quitting coffee and re-thinking my diet in general. Something ain't right and quitting juice just isn't going to do it. I have to try to keep myself motivated this week. There were too many crashes last week and I'm not ready to go back to random fits of tears and an inability to get out of bed without someone dragging me.

I've got baby camp meetings to go to and gyms to join! I also have to bravely call some doctors this week. I was supposed to have an MRI in April, and unless they've become WAY less intrusive in the last year, I'm pretty sure I didn't have one. I should also meet friends for lunches, visit new apartments, and organize my finances now that I have money again. Organization and planning rarely evolves beyond list making when I can't get out of bed. Also, travel plans are stressing me out. How can you be itching to go and painfully immobile at the same time?