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February 28, 2005
my rib punctured my lung (or why i wasn't at work today)
ok, it didn't really puncture my lung. it just moved a little, making me very uncomfortable. of course, if i sit really still and don't cough, i feel ok.
yesterday people came over for a rehearsal that was short and sweet, thankfully, because i was in a lot of pain. i think i coughed so much that my ribs are out of whack and my muscles spasm when i inhale. yipppeeee!
so after everyone left, i tried to call the girlfriend, who was helping a friend with a project and didn't answer her phone. i left a "911" page, which i never do, so she was very concerned when she called me back. she got home and i had her call the numbers on my insurance card to find out if we needed "permission" to go to the ER or at least to notify my doctor that i was going. i spoke to the on call nurse, who said, "um, you have a 911 emergency if you have shortness of breath and chest pain. go to the hospital right now." i suppose i shocked her, but it wasn't that sort of chest pain, and the shortness of breath is all about the asthma.
at least it got me in to see the doctor quickly. had chest x-rays to make sure i hadn't punctured a lung and that i didn't have pneumonia, then i had to have a breathing treatment (that stuff tastes like the air smells when you're driving behind an ashphalt truck. yum!) and my first dose of prednisone. i love steroids. here's to bac(k)ne and at least 10 pounds added to my already overburdened body.
and then, to top it all off? i had an allergic reaction to something in that room. maybe it was the hospital linens. so i had to take a dose of benadryl before i could go home.
thought i could go into work this afternoon, but every time i move, i make a very sad little yelping sound that makes people around me nervous. and i'm still coughing and sounding moose-like when i inhale.
a big thank you to the girlfriend, who waited with me for 5 hours at the er. i love you!
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happy birthday to you...
jjjjjjjjjj, it's your birthday! happy day! hope you had fun at your party, we sure did, and here's to doing something other than working on your special day!
the party was great, held just down the street from our house at moun of tunis . the atmosphere is amazing, and the belly dancers, mmmmm, the belly dancers! great food, too, but i'm not so good at eating with my hands. anyway, jjjjjjjjjjj, i swear i'll finish your present by tomorrow night, ok? here's to joining the 30 and over club!
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February 24, 2005
just plain strange
the other day i was in a public restroom in the building of one of my clients. as i walked in, i noticed the woman who cleans the restrooms was knocking on one of the locked stall doors. there was no response. curious, but unwilling to forego the original purpose of my trip to the restroom, i went to the stall on the end. i could still hear the woman banging on the door, but i also heard another sound, and i'm assuming it was coming from the woman in the stall: snoring! yes, the woman had fallen asleep on the toilet.
the poor bathroom attendant had to call security to come into the restroom. a security guard came and banged on the door but there was no response, save the sawing of logs going on. so they had to force the door open, only to find the woman hunched over on the pot, fast asleep. she was slumbering so deeply that there was no response, even when prodded lightly by security.
methinks this woman was either a)drunk and passed out; b)narcoleptic; or c)an insomniac who finally found the only way she could sleep.
i didn't stay to see how it ended, but when i returned to the restroom 1/2 an hour later (i drink a lot of water during the day), she was gone and all was back to normal.
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February 22, 2005
rain, rain, go away
come again some other day. little allie wants to play.
but not outside. cuz i'm allergic to outside.
and you can come back next march. okay?
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February 21, 2005
note to self
trying to go to the gym in a thunderstorm is not a good idea.
thinking no one else is at the gym in the middle of a cloudburst is inane.
trying to wait until the rain subsides to get out of your car only means it rains harder once you open the door.
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February 20, 2005
my weekend...
so unlike many in this country, i do not have monday off. i get to go to work and be merry about it. good thing i don't work fridays, or i'd be really mad about it.
friday i went out to dinner with good friends, had good food and drink and then we came back here to finish watching er and do a couple of shots, just cuz. t and her crush were here, it was very cute watching them flirt. brings back memories of when the girlfriend and i used to do that. wait, did we ever do that?
yesterday, the girlfriend arranged for us to get massages at cote d'azur spa in pasadena. it was so relaxing!
then we went to dinner at mi piace, which had really good food but the girls that we were seated next to were loud! dessert was good, too, but better at hollywood and vine.
next we were off to target (the only place open at 9:30 pm) to get a baby shower gift for our friends' daughter-in-law. i ended up buying a blanket for myself, which i plan on stuffing in my pillowcase along with my special hugging pillow that i sleep with. yes, i am over thirty, but i still have to have some bits of my childhood to cling to!
i got a haircut this morning, my friend, L, did a fabulous job, and then i went to the baby shower. it's been a whirlwind weekend, but it was fantastic! thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes, to K for sending my present ups blue so it'd be here for my birthday, and to my girlfriend, who made sure that my birthday was once again a fun occasion.
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February 17, 2005
i'm gonna be old(er)!
i don't usually like birthdays, but i'm decidedly happier about this one than the last. so, if you will, wish me a happy birthday on friday!
and you must join me in a drink. or two...come on, it's friday!!!! (almost.)
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February 16, 2005
i have a new crush
and her name is annie parisse. she's the latest ADA on law and order. oh my goodness. she looks different on the show than she does in this picture, but she's mighty fine in both. the law and order website says:
Annie Parisse (“National Treasure”) joins the esteemed cast of NBC’s Emmy-winning series “Law & Order” as the new Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Borgia. She debuts in the “Law & Order” episode “Fluency” on January 19, 2005.
“Annie is a terrific actress, and her new character (Alexandra Borgia) is an exotic beauty whose looks belie the fact that she is usually the smartest person in the room,” said Dick Wolf creator and executive producer of “Law & Order.”
Said Parisse: “I'm so excited to be a part of such a great show. I had so much fun when I did an episode several years ago and I'm really looking forward to working with everyone on a regular basis.”
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February 15, 2005
my lungs are scaring me
because they're not working right. last night after i took the tussin with codeine, i thought i was good to go and went to sleep. i awoke three hours later to a hacking cough that was so violent i was unable to inhale after i expelled that breath. on the intake it sounded as if i was praticing some moose mating call, which i think was my lungs working like a vacuum, only i couldn't break the seal. it was a frightening experience, and i went through it three times last night and once this morning. not being able to get oxygen leaves me in panic mode, which only makes it worse. hopefully, without the codeine tonight, i'll be able to wake up periodically, expunge the phlegm from my throat and go back to sleep relatively peacefully.
or else i'll be in the er because my girlfriend freaked out about me not breathing.
one thing for sure, i'll be on the phone yet again with my allergist (and her lovely nurse) trying to get some oral steroids to keep my lungs expanded so i don't suffocate myself on accident.
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February 14, 2005
sharing the love
today's an appropriate day to share the love. do you know who i love? well, my girlfriend, of course, but today i especially love my allergist and her nurse. cuz when i called today, almost in tears because of an apparent sinus/throat infection, they hooked me up with a zpack and cough medicine with codeine, no questions asked. yes, i actually told the nurse, "i think i love you!"
now if only i could get my dentist to give me good drugs when he does my crown next week, it'll all be gravy, baby!
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February 11, 2005
at least i'm good at something.
and that something is being allergic. apparently, i win the prize today of being the most allergic person in the doctor's office. at least that's what my test results show.
just what kind of tests do they do? i'm so glad you asked. they mark your back with however many things they want to test on your body (in my case it was 62) and then they stick you with little pins that have the allergen on the tip. 62 times they stick you. then you wait 15 minutes and they come to evaluate you. within 30 seconds i had to sit on my hands to not scratch my back. you know the kind of itch you get that's so bad you'll cry if you don't scratch it? ever had one of those? try having 40+ of them at once. and 15 minutes? an eternity when all you can think about is how itchy your back is. i managed to IM and send emails to two different people, sharing with them just how itchy i was. i think i was pretty smart. the entire email consisted of "ITCHY!!!!!!!"
good thing the allergist came back early. a whole 4 minutes, but at least it was early. she was amazed at the welts on my back. it turns out i'm extremely sensitive to certain kinds of things. air, for instance. every pollen they tested for had a reading of "highly" to "very highly" allergic. that's 32 kinds of pollen. she actually wrote, "highly allergic to outdoors." now where was that when i was in school for P.E.? or when my dad made me go camping? and then the doctor said, "i wish we had the mirror set up in here so you could see these welts." yeah, just what i want to see. shoulda taken a picture, though.
let's not mention the cat allergies, ok? very highly allergic is not fun when you love animals. at least the dog allergies were only mildly allergic.
so now it's a choice: i can take pills every day to control my allergies--there's never going to be a time when there's not pollen in the air--or i can start shots once a week. for six months. after that it'd go down to once every 3 or 4 weeks. for 4-5 years. eek. that's a real committment.
and i'm not even going to go into the dentist's visit this morning. maybe later.
UPDATE: did i mention that scarlett johansson was filling out papers in the waiting room when i was checking out of the office? what a strange world i live in.
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February 10, 2005
i'm not one to suffer in silence
so when i'm in pain or just uncomfortable, you'll know about it. don't you love the kind of people who just have to share everything with you? i sure as hell don't.
tomorrow i go see an allergist, which means since yesterday, i've not taken any antihistamines. which means my allergies are horrible.
and, insult to injury, i get to get poked with all kinds of needles tomorrow to see how i react to different substances. whee.
i should be just ducky when my friends come over tomorrow night.
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wanna know what sucks?
i can't blog from my ipaq. it seems mt 3.14 causes my browser to crash. anyone know why this happens? perhaps i'm just extremely lucky that way...
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February 08, 2005
and this has what, exactly, to do with chinese new year's?
my mother sent this to me today. it's not in english, which is my language of choice, so i've no idea what it says. and it's kind of disturbing. but i'll leave it up to you to decide what it has to do with chinese new year's. cuz i sure don't think that chicken sphincters are what i associate with it. more like red envelopes and dragons and drums.
click here to see the whole thing.
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February 07, 2005
it was good while it lasted.
so friday i guess there was a ruling in new york that went against the gay marriage ban.
From the article on MSNBC: State Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan ruled Friday that the state ban is unconstitutional, finding in favor of five same-sex couples who had been denied marriage licenses by the city.
mayor bloomberg, who says he supports gay marriage, is planning to appeal the ruling. "If we did not appeal this, I think we would have chaos in this city."
i guess it's a wait and see kind of thing, but i've got my fingers crossed.
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February 05, 2005
it's only saturday?!?!!?!?!?
i can't believe i went through three days of performances and it's only saturday. it feels as if the last week has been a blur. thank god i have tomorrow to recuperate. that is, if i decide not to go to work. i should, because i took so much time off that i need the hours, but i think one day of nothing to do will suit me better than trying to get 8 hours of work done.
here's to the weekend, finally!!! hope everyone's enjoying what's left of theirs.
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February 04, 2005
i was totally unprepared--warning: another boring post about my boring life
for the gym today. well, not totally unprepared. i did have my gym clothes and my shoes, but i forgot my towel (although i'm not one to sweat profusely) and soap to wash my face.
the whole plan was to go sing (which we did and it went ok, thankyouverymuch), hop in the car, get the mail, work out and then go home, shower and go back to see some of the other choirs performing at the convention.
only i had on full makeup and my hair was done all girly like in curls and an upswept 'do. so i had to wash my face with the soap they had at the gym and dry with a paper towel. then, having no moisturizer, i had to use body lotion on my face.
i did do 40 minutes of cardio. then i had to go.
did i mention the rash i have now? goody.
sometimes i'm such a friggin girl it's a wonder they don't make me turn in my dyke card.
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February 03, 2005
one down, two to go
i have to go to bed very soon. because i have to be up at the crack of dawn to sing at 9 am. yay.
alternatively, i could stay up all night and go to bed after i sing. i don't think me on no sleep is something that anyone wants to see, though.
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February 01, 2005
i gotta be my worst critic
as much as i'm oblivious about certain aspects of my life, i'm very critical about others. i wish that i could be more positive, see the glass half full and all that, but it's really a matter of training myself to not think the worst is always going to happen. and i'm hard on myself because i can't stand the thought of disappointing those who matter most to me.
eek. i'm done being introspective tonight. have to play the sims2 for a bit and then try to get some sleep. although we're just now getting into my hell week.
know anyone who can cut my hair on a moment's notice? i need a trim, but i'm scared that if i change one more thing this week my head will explode.
hope everyone else is enjoying their week.
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