sick

Today is the second day I've been home sick from work (sick on Friday). I don't enjoy being at home alone.

Being sick for me means having weird things happen in my mind. Something happened this morning that I will forever laugh at. It brought back many memories of being sick as a child. Again, I laugh now...but it was terrifying this morning. Here's the story...

I woke up at 7:00am, sat straight up in a major panic, realizing it was Monday and that on Saturday I missed a VERY important event. I grabbed my cell phone and flipped it open scurrying to check what the date was on Saturday. Saturday the 3rd was the only date I saw (my mind wasn't all the way there), which was Jenn Craven-Louder's wedding reception, in which I was to be the Photographer.

A loud cry came out of my mouth thinking I had missed it! Tears started welling in my eyes, the word "NO" was loudly spoken over and over and over, as a few things ran through my mind...

-I was going to have to give Jenn her money back because I wasn't there to take the pictures.
-Why didn't she call me to ask where I was?
-I was going to have to call her and apologize profusely to her and hope to still have her friendship.
-this would ruin my reputation as a photographer; the fact that I didn't show up to a reception.

How was I ever going to show my face again. I know I forget things but how could I have missed THIS!

I immediately started to search for Jenn's phone number saved in my call list so that I could call her and tell her that it had JUST occured to me that I missed her reception. What was I going to say??!!!

The fear, anxiety, and pain all of the sudden went away as I realized that last Saturday was not the 3rd but the 10th.

I WAS at Jenn's reception - I have the pictures to prove it.

PHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I'm laughing now...but I thought I was going to have a heart attack this morning. I don't know if this happened because I'm wasn't feeling well or what. But this made me think back on the funny things that have happened at the times I was sick when I was younger...for example...

I was probably 10 years old, had the flu along with a fever. I got out of my bed in the middle of the night, went into the living room and sat on the couch and cried.

After a little bit my mom came out of her bedroom to check on me and found me crying. As any loving mother would do, she sat next to me and held me tight, comforting me, and in her most soothing voice asked me why I was crying. This was my reply...(in my best crying voice)

"These people keep asking me to sew dresses for them and I just can't do it, they won't leave me alone."

Yes, I was having a dream, a hallucination of sorts. As I talked with her about these people who were making me sew for them, things started to seem more clear in my head and I realized it wasn't real. It was just the fever taking over.

Oh the joys of being sick!!