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by Bethe

Happy Ending


Today, I was the Girl with the Pearl Earring. 

Just the one.
Because the other fell out somewhere. I wasn’t sure where. It doesn’t help that I work in an incredibly huge hospital with six floors, and this morning I decided to run all over the hospital, never taking the same route twice. 
After I finished all that running, I realized I had lost my favorite earring. It was part of the set that my parents gave me a few years ago. I love them. And one was gone.
After retracing my steps and calling our Lost & Found department, I gave up. And then, on a whim, I decided to send an email blast asking folks to watch out for my earring. 
And then came the happy ending. At 9:30 tonight, someone from the radiology night shift called to say that a patient had found an earring on the floor. He didn’t think much of it until he checked his email and realized it was mine. We will be reunited in the morning! Hooray!
by Bethe

All better–bye bye flu

PS–After 27 sick blogs over the past ten days, I’m happy to report that I’m doing much better! I managed to go to work today, and made it all the way until 3:00 before going home and passing out on my couch. I think my couch will have a permanent imprint of my hiney on it after this week.

It’s so good to be back with the living… and away from Facebook. I have officially cyber-stalked every person I have ever known and am utterly bored by the whole thing. If my childhood best friend’s little brother’s new wife posted photos this week, I’ve seen them. Now that I’m feeling better, it’s so good to be back around REAL people, doing REAL work, and breathing REAL fresh air. Thanks again to everyone who prayed for me and emailed me over the past week… you guys rock. I’m happy to officially report that I’m NO LONGER CONTAGIOUS. Hooray!
by Bethe

Valentines Fun

Well, it’s day nine and I’m still home in bed. I’ve officially run out of things to do, and yet I don’t have the energy to worry about it. Luckily, I talked to my doctor on the phone this morning, and he assures me that my slow recovery is typical of this year’s flu and nothing to worry about. He told me the same thing that every person I have spoken to for past week has told me… get lot’s of rest, drink lot’s of liquids, and it will eventually run its course. 

I wish they would come up with something more creative… like… eat massive amounts of cookies and ice cream and you’ll get well faster. Just in case, I went ahead and tried that too.

In order to provide myself with a little bit of entertainment, here’s some Valentines YouTube fun.

 

by Bethe

Productive Weekend

Who says you can’t get a lot done when you’re home sick, unable to get off the couch?

Since Thursday I have…
Watched:
Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys
The Secret Life of Bees (this was FANTASTIC!)
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (it was horrible, I turned it off after 15 minutes)
Three episodes of The Office
Three episodes of Ugly Betty
Four episodes of Grey’s Anatomy
Five episodes of Kath & Kim
One episode of Law & Order: SVU
The Grammy’s
Meet the Press
100 hours of misc. TV, including a sewing show and a construction show on PBS (at one point I was too sick to change the channel)
And…
I finished the last Twilight book
Did my taxes
Read several magazines and Setting the Agenda (for school… boring!)
And… I spent about 500 hours on Facebook.
After this week, I will appreciate my hectic, non-stop crazy weeks just a little more.
by Bethe

Maybe I’ll live

Well, my sweet blogging friends, it looks like I just may beat this flu after all. I’m on day five, and while my fever is still hovering around 100, today is the first day that I have been able to get off my couch and act like a human being for short spurts of time. I can only last about 10 minutes at a time off my couch, but it’s such a relief to be able to DO something, even if it’s just loading my dishwasher with the stacks of dirty dishes that have accumulated for the past week.

I’m on the mend. A few more days and I’ll be back to normal. Thanks for all your concern and prayers.
by Bethe

All the single ladies

Word on the street says that Chipotle is one of the best places to meet a hunky, single guy. 

I can just see it now… I sit alone at a table in the noisy restaurant. Just as I take a monstrous bite of my oversized burrito, a handsome man catches my eye. I coyly flash a smile at him, and chicken juice runs down my chin and bits of rice and guacamole fall in my lap. 
So romantic.
by Bethe

I’m kind of a big deal

Before you ask me, “Bethe, why are you posting a blog at 2 a.m. in the middle of the week?” I will give you an answer… because the chills, the fever, and the aches from my flu are making it impossible to sleep! And I’m sick of reading, sick of watching TV, and I’m not able to actually SIT UP, so the only thing left to do is kill time on my laptop. Being sick is so annoying.

But back to the post… I was mentioned in a travel blog! Check it out… click here if you ever wanted to know about the exciting world of travel insurance. Does this make me famous? he he.
by Bethe

Sick

I’m conducting a personal experiment… we’ll see if that Tamaflu medicine really does help shorten the flu. Because that’s what I woke up with this morning. I don’t have any time to be sick, I don’t have enough extra vacation days to be sick… and yet I find myself here in bed, with a 101 fever, doped up on flu medicine and Advil, about to tackle the end of the fourth Twilight book. I might as well make lemons out of lemonade, right?