ER

I feel like the boy in The Velveteen Rabbit except I don't have to get rid of my favorite toys, I just can't play with them yet. I went to the ER this morning around 8:30 to get a $250 IV and some anti-nausea meds. $250 co-pay. Yuck.

S dropped me off and I stumbled into the ER after being checked for metals and what not. Gotta love metal detectors in a hospital. I was actually thankful for this later, but I'll get to that. He drove AJ down to my girl friend's house (our regular babysitter) and then he came back to sit with me.

Before he returned, I was put in a small check up room and my vitals were taken. While waiting to be placed into a triage room, a woman came in claiming her doctor was wrong, and he had said she was psychotic. She intended to sue him and needed someone to go to court with her. Here is where I was thankful for the metal detectors. I wanted to scream at her that 1) it's SUNDAY, wth is anyone going to be able to do TODAY and 2) could you please not be a psycho... go away and let people with real emergencies get seen. A couple with two small children were waiting for their children to be seen and it broke my heart to hear the little girl crying when they took her blood.

After all the IVs and meds and drive home, I made my way back upstairs to the guest room at home to sleep it off. I had been up since about 3 am and had no energy. I slept decent thanks to the meds and exhaustion. I was ready to be awake at about 3 pm and came downstairs, careful not to touch or breathe on anything. My head was pounding though so I took some Excedrin Tension and went back upstairs.

I read my book for a while and it made me want to cuddle with A-Train. It's about a missing girl and a tragedy in her little life. Sad! I called (lol yes called on the phone) S-Factor and said I wanted to hang out but was afraid I would get them sick. He convinced me to come down and quarantine myself on one end of the couch. So that's where I've been for the last couple of hours.

Despite all of the hours I slept today, i'm still worn out and ready for bed. If I feel like this in the morning, I'm staying home. Blah!

Here's hoping this bug skips AJ and S-Factor.

-t