You know, I actually like hospital pillows, They have the right amount of spring, and aren’t too fat to stack to get just the right amount of neck, face, back support.
At lease that’s what I was thinking at 12:00 a.m. in the local ER.
Gurneys aren’t half bad, either. Just padded enough to be able to curl up on your side and wait out your time while someone finds more vials and needles. Only, it gets a little hard to pick a side after you’ve had one horse-antibiotic shot in each hip. At that point you may as well sit up, but as you have another thirty minutes to wait (to be sure there aren’t any “reactions") you may as well just suck it up. There’s a reward of pain medication at the end.
Only the Walgreen’s five miles away isn’t one of those 24-hour Pharmacy types. That’s ten more miles. So, you go home and try to sleep until Safeway opens at nine.
And since I’m missing church and egg hunts and all that, I may as well grab a couple of pound cakes, a cupcake, frosting and tiny marshmallows and make the little lamb cake I saw in Parents Magazine.
Oooh! 8:58! Better scramble. Don’t call--I’ll be in bed and won’t answer!
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04.08.07 at 10:02 AM |
So, I guess you’re not feeling better yet. Soon, I hope. Try, just try, to take it easy.
04.08.07 at 03:41 PM |
Shee-yah ... I guess you like them pillows, or you would have gotten an appointment like the MD suggested, and done the lab tests before the ER early Easter morning. Woah, did I just channel my mom and grandma or what?! Hope you’re feeling better soon!
04.08.07 at 06:28 PM |
Yeesh, Mindy! I hope you’re feeling better today. :(
04.09.07 at 02:16 AM |
Feel better! I’m laughing helplessly, thinking that a day in bed sounds great, even if horse shots and bacterial infections don’t.
I hope you are taking a day or two off this week....
04.09.07 at 11:37 AM |
Yeah...you’re taking this whole “Holiday Curse” thing way too far...stop it! Just when I was convinced it was a statistical anomaly, you go and prove me wrong.
Get well.
*My secret word is “better” as in thing will get.
04.09.07 at 04:10 PM |
Do feel better my sweet and lovely friend.
God bless you real good.
Love Jeanne
X0X0
04.10.07 at 11:07 AM |
Oh my, I hope you are out & getting better now. What a way to spend Easter.
04.11.07 at 04:50 AM |
Hey you, take care!
And weird side note, every time I see an advertisement for the new “Notes for the Underbelly” TV show, I think they are ripping you off. Unless of course you are writing that show and just forgot to tell us.
Feel better soon!
04.11.07 at 07:51 AM |
Katie, no kidding! They called to ask me to promote it and I almost cried. Turns out it’s based on a book written some time ago by that title. When I told them about my book, they sent me a preview CD! So I could promote it!
I know it’s petty, it’s just another of life’s great ironies. Maybe I’ll get a copy so I know what good writing looks like.
04.13.07 at 10:22 PM |
I meant to ask about the Underbelly show as well. Shit biscuits that it’s not YOUR book!
04.14.07 at 09:38 PM |
Oh Mindy, I feel for you! I’m so sorry you had to endure that kind of “holiday”. Wish I could share some of my Cadbury & Peanut Butter eggs with you!
I pretty much slept through Easter thanks to 2 months of bronchitis and now mono. I took pictures of the kids with their Easter baskets from bed ::pathetic:: Obviously missed church too. I saw about 5 minutes of egg hunting at my in-laws before I went back inside and curled up on the couch.
Good times LOL.