my serious injury
i took a sick day yesterday. well, not a whole sick day, but i had to go home early. i slammed my pinky between a cart and a counter. and it stinkin' hurt! at first i thought, 'holy crap that hurt.' and then i thought, 'oh, i'm gonna faint. or maybe i'm gonna throw up. and now i'm dying of sweating. and i'm gonna faint.' so i went and sat down in front of a window. after a bit i decided i would try to get myself a glass of water to help the fainting/boiling to death feeling, but i stood up and decided that wasn't gonna happen so i sat back down. i couldn't even keep my head up - i rested it on the windowsill. after about 10 minutes, one of my coworkers found me and went to get a nurse. she came and tried to take my bloodpressure but couldn't hear anything, so i told her i must be dead. she got that it was 88 over something, though, and then another nurse got that my pulse was 46. so the second nurse walked me to one of the empty rooms and i lied down on the bed and was freezing to death. so she covered me with a blanket and got a cold washcloth for my head cuz i was sweating, then went to call my mom.
my mom's response? 'is it an emergency? cuz if it's not, i'm gonna finish curling my hair.'
posted by melilotnfosco | 5:41 PM
11 Comments:
ow!
and mom must be related to the cousin who wouldn't rescue me when my car stalled because i called in the middle of "knot's landing"
hehe, i love your mom ;) but what's with your family members almost dying?? (glad you're ok!) ... oh, and isn't past tense of lie down lay down?
lol, i went to post that and the comments section was empty, but when i posted it, 2 more comments came up! (hobbitsister & i were commenting at the same time:)
we had the lied/laid down discussion awhile ago on here. i don't remember what our conclusion was. all i know is the rule that 'chickens lay eggs, people lie down.'
yup, you're right .... but i looked it up on dictionary.com right before i posted, and past tense for people is lay :) ... and i only wrote it b/c i remembered having that debate before (just to be a brat;)
it should be 'lay', but i didn't correct her because i was the one who corrected her before, and i was afraid it would start another name-calling war
lol, you guys and your name-calling ...
thank you chelley
oh - one minor correction. mom doesn't say "gonna". she says "going to". don't misquote my mother.
yes - mom would say 'going to'
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