Whew....

Ok so I am well on my way back to the real world and the blog world. I do fear that all this time off work will lead to some pretty stressful days ahead so I apologize ahead of time.

Hmmm...some funny stories from my trip to the Emergency Room....at Huntsville Hospital.

HH is a wonderful hospital and I enjoyed my stay as much as someone can enjoy a horribly high fever of 103.5. Ok so I woke Brian up at about 4:30 am on Monday the 28 th. I was barely able to walk and everything was very fuzzy and I really had to focus if someone was talking to me. So we get to the ER and Brian drops me off at the door while he parks and I go into register.....remember all things are fuzzy, hearing, seeing, walking....I read the question and I read it as "when was the last time you were hospitalized?". So I put 'childbirth' and then have a seat to wait for Brian (sometimes it just makes you feel better to have someone there, even if there isn't anything they can do). Well this kid comes over and asks me when my baby is due....oh sorry, I'm not pregnant. I thought it asked when i was in the hospital last. He looks at me like i am seriously challenged.

Now let me tell you about the beautiful outfit that I chose for this occasion. I have on lime green flip flops, yellow pj pants with green frogs on them and a UAB shirt that I have had for about 11 years now and have some great ventilation holes in the armpits. I am so sick that I have not had a bath in several days and have not brushed my teeth either. Funky, I know but I was REALLLY sick. At least I got to change my shirt ( ever the planner, I had a bag ready with ban extra shirt in it).

Enter the doctor, a mighty fine doctor by the way in looks and doctorlyness...hehehe. Then a whole bunch of hospital stuff happened like x-rays, and urine samples and blood and temperatures. Enter hunky doc and he says that I have Erlichiosis, a tick bite illness. So he gives a prescription for the illness, then as he isnleaving he utters my favorites words.......Rectal Exam.

WHAT?!?!? Brian thought it was a joke, I knew it was no joke. Brian bailed. I prepared for the inevitable.

See my red blood cell count is low and hunky doc said he wanted to make sure that I wasn't bleeding In my butt.....if you know me well, you know that my butt has had many trials and tribulations that I may tell the rest of y'all about one day. I thinkn the real reason was my frog pj pants....hunky doc was diggin' the frogs.

So that was the great finale to my ER visit. Thanks Huntsville Hospital and hunky doc.....he's also a farmer.....ahhh dreamy :)