Having a cold is no fun, but getting really sick is even less so. If you've been wondering why I fell off the face of the planet, there's your answer.
I got to take a lovely little ambulance ride to the ER last week. Oxygen count in the blood = very low, Blood pressure = high. Not a fun combo to be dealing with. Turns out, they couldn't tell me what was wrong or how to prevent it in the future and were basically clueless. Scary. I go in two weeks to talk to the lung doctor and we'll see if we can't narrow down the cause a bit.
Have you ever noticed that your brain works funny? That it multitasks even when you are unable to? I find this is more common with Moms in general due to the training that they get with the onslaught of daily chaos that children bring into their lives.
Why am I mentioning this? Because there I was riding in the ambulance, oxygen mask on my face and barely aware of what's going on around me and I hear what one of the EMT's is saying to the hospital: "I have a white female, approximately 45 years of age..." That's when my brain went funny. I wanted to sit right up and say "Oh no you dit'nt! You did not go there. I know you didn't just say that I look 45!" Then I started thinking, OMG! I'm going to have to go out and get a face lift! I can't believe he thinks I look four years older than I am! I mean, who did that whippersnapper think he was anyway?
All these thoughts were going on in the background as they were checking vitals, training a fellow EMT and treating me for a heart attack "just in case" which it wasn't, thank goodness. The front of my brain was complaining about tingling in the hands and feet and my teeth going numb. Meanwhile that back of my brain was going all "Aunt Esther from Sanford & Son" and I wanted to pound him with my purse.
The brain's a strange thing, isn't it?
