Oct 28 2008
Take Your Medicine and Don’t Stress
Stress sucks. And I’ve been stressing about EVERYTHING: packing (we’re getting ready to move), being away from family (since Olivia’s been born someone who “knows what they’re doing” has been at most 15 minutes away), whether or not Olivia has warm enough clothes to live in snow, how I’m going to drive in snow, if a Starbucks is close to where we’ll be living, whether or not Marc is going to like living in Tennessee (I will simply because its closer to my mother), if I’ll make friends, how I’ll be able to work and take care of Olivia, hitting deer on the road, baby-proofing our new house, not to mention my calorie in-take - always stressing about my damn calories.
So I’ve been stressing….and yes the proximity of a Starbucks does warrant my worry….and I’ve been sick. Did you know the combination of the two can land you in the hospital? Well it can because that’s where I spent all day yesterday.
Apparently I was twitching/convulsing in my sleep the night before last, so much so that it was scaring Marc, and then yesterday I couldn’t keep my eyes open and blacked-out on the way to my mother-in-law’s house (I wasn’t driving) while twitching, so Marc took me to the hospital. They asked me a whole bunch of idiotic questions that I couldn’t tell them the answer to because I just wanted to go to sleep, took some blood, did a chest x-ray, CAT scan, and gave me a bag of saline solution.
$100 co-payment and 6 hours later the doctor comes back to tell me that all my tests appear normal. Then he tells me to go home, make sure I take my medicines regularly, and not to stress. Gee Doc, thanks…glad to see that medical degree’s hard at work.
That is what doctors do best….. take yoru money and tell you to do what you already know!!!