That’s right. Sick on Christmas. More specifically, I started feeling bad about halfway through my paper route on Christmas eve, when I was just beginning to gear up for having—whoohoo!–one of my five days off per year. “Yes!” I thought to myself, “No paper route tomorrow! I can sleep late! I can laze all day, open gifts, play with the kiddos, watch movies, etc!” Yes, I even said, aloud, to myself at 5:30 a.m. on Christmas eve morn, “et cetera.” That’s how excited I was.
Then I got a little pang in my stomach. Had a bit of water, and carried on. Then I had a few more pangs, and pretty soon I consisted pretty much of ever-increasing bodywide pangs, and all the sips of water in the world were not helping. I limped through the end of my route, remembered I had to stop at the store for medicine for the sick baby, and staggered into Marsh. When I checked out, the checkout lady said, “Do you have your Marsh car…oh, no, I’ll use the store card. You need to go home and go to BED, honey.”
I spent the entire day in bed, moaning, groaning, whining, and immobilized by nausea. Oh, man, was I sick. My husband offered to take me to the hospital but since he couldn’t promise me that they would either euthanize me or at least knock me out completely, I wasn’t willing to risk the inevitable barforama that would have been brought on by that much movement.
I seriously considered posting to the SD to ask for prayers, spells, incantations, get-well dances, or anything else that might help, but I couldn’t make it to the living room. THAT’s how sick I was, if you can imagine.
Today, I’m back on my feet, if not exactly bouncing with energy. I’ve had lots of iced tea and a big of grilled cheese, and feel much MUCH better to be back among the living. I slept most of the day and will go to my sister’s tomorrow for a late Christmas. We have about 7 inches of snow, so tomorrow I’ll be wading through it on my paper route, plus I have an extra 65 papers to deliver, PLUS the babies are going with me. Whew! But at least I’m not sick anymore, so I certainly am NOT going to complain.
Hope everyone else is WELL and had a wonderful Christmas! I guess I should go wrap some presents now…