Highlights of my Day... Sunday, August 30

1. Sunday is my only designated sleep-in day but today I woke up early to the sound of Snickers moaning in pain. I turned my head and there he was, sitting on my floor with these big puppy dog eyes and my blanket wrapped around him.

2. Spent a chunk of my morning in the hospital with Snickers. His throat was swollen, his head was spinning and he was having hot flashes like a woman in menopause. One minute he was sweating up a storm and dripping with sweat, and then the next minute he was quivering with the chills. My initial thought was the swine flu and so my mind raced back to all the places he’s been this past week or so. So much for the hospital and their thoughts about it being the swine flu, or even testing him for it for that matter. Instead what happened was Snickers got a shot in the bum, probably some measly vitamin dose, and then was sent home with a days’ worth of medicine.

3. Talk about a hazard waiting to happen, when the nurse told us to go into the next room I almost bumped elbows with a doctor in surgery… seriously, no jokes!!! Snickers opened the door for me and when I stepped to the side I turned and who should be beside me but a doctor sitting on a stool performing an operation. Okay, so it was a minor operation, he was sewing some kid’s big toe back on, but oh my gosh. Don’t they usually do that in their own set-aside rooms?! It wasn’t like the hospital was busy either. Nasty.

4. “You liked that didn’t you?!” was what the look on my face clearly screamed to the young nurse who had been appointed to go behind the curtain and give him a needle in the bum. Not too sure what it is with Koreans and them insisting they shot you in the bum for everything you go to the hospital for, but that nurse gave Snickers a good loud smack on the rear and I jumped a bit at the sound of it. I try to avoid Korean hospitals, hospitals in general actually, but ever since I had that whole revealing of my Polish bum at a hospital last September, I think I somehow blocked out the needle in the bum hospital protocol.

5. Quick question here, what the heck is ONE DAY worth of medicine really going to do? I asked the doctor the same question, he didn’t answer and so when we left I turned and said “I’ll see you tomorrow.”

6. My attempts at trying to cheer Snickers up, beyond the random “attack kissing” I did in the street, included taking him out for lunch. He asked to have sushi and so sushi we had.

7. I’m use to sitting on the floor cross-legged for my meals but today I had sported a short dress and so in addition to sitting cross-legged, I also had to pin my dress down in between my legs. Needless to say, it was quite uncomfortable. The meal was great and sitting in our own private room was excellent but I kind of had a little problem when it came to standing up.

8. Correction, I could stand up, I just couldn’t walk. Snickers thought I was playing a joke and so he stood there laughing at me. I couldn’t walk though, it was so strange. My legs had gone all pins-and-needles on me and I literally couldn’t feel my feet. Thankfully with Snickers help I managed to somehow get out of the restaurant. I started laughing so uncontrollably and so my eyes swelled up with tears. We stood there for a couple of minutes laughing at the whole situation and then I took another attempt at using my legs… hahaha .

9. For the rest of the evening I placed Snickers on “Nurse Amy’s” orders to relax and let me take care of him and so beyond the obvious that he loved that, it was nice.

10. Oh my gosh, I’m embarrassed to even write this let alone admit it… today Snickers thought it’d be comfortable for him to wear a pair of my pants. Now, I guess I should tell you hear that these aren’t just regular pants, instead, they’re kind of like leggings and so, besides the length, one size fits all, or so we proved tonight… hahaha. When he first came out wearing them I laughed my head off and then shouted out “I don’t think you’re having kids if you wear these long!”… hahaha.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
I can wrap my head around the possibility of losing a shoe, but how do you lose a toe?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
-- Danish Proverb