If you knew me personally, or over the course of quite a few years, you would know that I say these words quite often: 'I think I'm dying.'
I know dying isn't a funny thing to joke about, and really I'm not joking because I AM dying. Or I will at some point.
The thing is, I'm not a sickly person, or a super healthy person. I don't get pneumonia or serious virus's hardly...well, ever (totally jinxing myself yes?). What I do get is horrible allergies, ear infections a couple times a year, and since I was a teenager: weird aches and pains.
Like a tight ache in my shoulder/neck area, near my collar bone. Yeah, its just there. Hurting me. And then it goes away, and then it returns. And I think: 'I'm dying aren't I? I must have cancer or something.' Until it goes away and I don't care anymore.
The latest weird pain? All day today I've had these tingles and itches and numbness running up and down my legs. It started out while I was at work, I was putting some stuff away in a closet and it felt like I'd walked through a spider web, and I jumped and started rubbing my leg. But nothing was there...just itchiness. It's gone on like that all day today. Until now, where my left leg is totally numb and has been that way for the last hour or so.
And here I am again, thinking 'I'm dying aren't I? Or I'm going to lose a leg. Yay.'
Besides the fact that I've changed so many flippin' diapers again today, I wouldn't mind taking a little extended "vacation" in a clinic somewhere to have my "illness" checked out. Be it psychiatric or whatnot.
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I like to tell people that they are dying, have swine flu, or cancer, all the time. My coworkers and friends love me.
ReplyDeleteYeah, two bad hours with my littlest one is enough to wish someone would call me in for a mandatory 72 hour psychiatric hold.
ReplyDeletemaybe the spiderwebs are being spun INSIDE your legs :)
ReplyDeleteI'll take a break with you--what hospital do you want to check into??? ;)
I love your blog--and your sense of humor
Well, I hate to break it to you, but...
ReplyDeleteyou probably aren't dying...this time. How is your leg feeling today? All better?
I have this fear all the time. Even when it is a slight headache. I always hear Arnold telling me, "It's not a tumor." But really, it could be.
I think it is age...and motherhood. I hate to tell ya but you are not dying and it will only get worse! Just wait till you can hardly get up in the morning...just sayin...
ReplyDeleteadults can get ear infections??? :)
ReplyDeleteI got weird tingly/and tightness in my hand the other day... I seriously think its arthritis
See, I thought I was crazy because I swore my back kept quitting on me. Then I found out it was broken. Best day of my life.
ReplyDeleteYou;re not having a stroke are you? I'm not feeding your paranoia am I?
ReplyDeleteIf it makes you feel any better, I found a bump on my head (which I'm pretty sure turned out to be the biggest zit ever because it went away)and the night i found it, I cried myself to sleep thinking my children would grow up without a mother.
It happens so we know we're still alive, still tickin, still breathing. Because somedays, I'm just not quite sure...
ReplyDeleteQUICK----get to the emergency room ---I don't want you dying on us-------itchy, tingly legs, could be fatal ya know -----do you also have nausea, diarrhea, blackouts, a desire to bite people ---PLEASE don't wait
ReplyDeleteHmmm, sounds like you might be suffering from lack of chocolate?! ;) If you need any, stop on by, I always have plenty stashed away for emergencies!
ReplyDeleteIt's true... it's probably not funny, but I say it all the time also! :) oops! :P
ReplyDeleteI think some of that paranoia comes because we have little folks depending on us and we feel slightly overwhelmed. Who knows?
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