Feeling Like A Poem....I am, literally....

Okay...I have been absolutely sure all weekend that I had develop'd some horrible infection to the left of my belly button that is only found in third-world countries and would, most likely, require my husband to make sure my life insurance was up to date because, clearly, I was going to be a gone-er soon.  I was sure that, if the infection was an over-exaggeration, that I had torn something to shreds and that I was going to have to have another surgery to repair some horribly torn muscle mass under my skin because the 10,000 wasps that felt like they were stinging me last week, well, over the weekend they mated & multipled & now there are about 50,000 of them. Can't get up and down by myself (what? I was popping up & down a week or two ago) and it's getting worse.  "Oh my gosh," maybe something was left inside of me...A sponge? A Bee Hive? What? Post, post, post about my pain is what I did...asking e'one from here to Canada & getting lots of answers, but e'one saying to call my doctor for sure.

So, that's what I did...I called Dr. Houston who, the amazing man he is, calls me back pretty quickly on his friggin' surgery day when he is in between "cases" (although, I prefer to call us patients......albeit in my case he might think I am a "case" since I am clearly NUTS!) and tells me exactly what he told me at my 1 week follow up appointment..."it's totally normal", it is a "slow down" pain (i.e. telling me to slow down) and it will "Be totally gone by 5 weeks" and I'll "not feel it again".  Okay...tomorrow is week three....so, basically I am a whimp and, apparently, this horrific, stinging, burning, ripping pain everytime I move is "normal".  And, since I don't hear everyone screaming about it, it must be something that e'one else can tolerate & I am just a wuss (is that still a word, or am I showing that I grew up in the 80s?)....oh, wait, and there's more....then last night I started feeling this sharp pain between my shoulder blades when I swallow. I can feel, even water, go down & then a few seconds later it feels like a sharp pain--like something is "stuck"----gallbladder?  Too soon, right? Okay, my pouch gave up & put the "closed" sign up? What?  Talked to Dr. H about that, too---"normal"..."slow down pains"......okay......I give up because I am clearly too sensitive (three 10 pound babies & up walking around 2-3 days later feeling like it was no big deal...I thought I was tough)....

So, I was thinking that I am feeling a little like Peggy Ann McKay from the Shel Silverstein (Where The Sidewalk Ends) book.......for those of you who don't know the poem, SICK:

"I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay,
"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash, and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more--that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut, my eyes are blue--
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke--
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb,
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is---Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!"

So, now that I've talked to Dr. Houston & feel like a total fool b/c this is all normal, I am going out to play. xo, Peggy Ann McKay (aka Micheala).

I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that book.  I checked them out like every other week in school.  All of them, they are great.  I had not heard (or thought about for that matter) about oh Peggy Ann McKay in sooo long.  It is perfect for you right now....Just PERFECT.

And you just gotta keep up the great post....I love them too.....

I Love it, too...of course, by default, so do my kids....I think I may have the entire book in my head b/c I read it about every day!!!!  xo, M.

OH...and you are just kicking bootie on your weight loss!!! WOOO HOOOO!!!