I know, you’re thinking, ‘That’s enough to warrant a post?’ But considering the last few hellish days I’ve spent tossing and turning in bed, groaning in intestinal cramps, headache and fatigue, a laugh is definitely worth writing home about. (Or writing a post on.)
First off the basics– no, I’m not all better. That’s the downside. But after the morons cut off the power again today at 2 pm and I was all of the above PLUS sweating non-stop, I decided I couldn’t get better just on my own- I needed to go to a hospital. So I did. I spent a few hours at a clinic, where they stuck an IV in me and replenished my fluids. The doctor told me to stick my tongue out, and went, “Yep, you’re dehydrated.”
There were three nurses trying to get a good vein where they could insert the needle, and they were all talking in a mixture of the three of the four main South Indian languages. Malayalam (which I speak), Tamil (which is similar), and Kannada (which I’ve started to understand because Apsi speaks it). It was mostly just “Ooh, no that won’t work. How about there… no that won’t work either.. how about there?” And then one of them, in Kannada, goes, “This is the problem with having fat patients- it’s hard to locate a vein.”
She didn’t think I understood her. I did. And I started cracking up.
All three looked up totally embarrassed and flustered. I just chuckled along, and told them it’s no problem, keep going.
Later, I was talking to Eleyah and I gave her the run down of what was going on. She goes, “Wow you must’ve lost a lot of weight, huh. I’m on a new vegetables and fruit diet.” And that is what I laughed at just before starting this post. I mean think of it, I’m in a whole world of pain, but right now what’s going through her head is how to lose weight. I can almost imagine her thinking, “I wonder if I can get food poisoning to lose weight! Yes, that’ll do it!”
Funny stuff. On another note, Vinni made a good point about editing comments that you’ve left. Say you’ve left a comment and you realized that you misspelled something? No problem- just become a registered user and you can edit to your heart’s delight. You can add italics, bold, whatever. Just click here for now; I’ll have to make a dedicated button for it somewhere on my site later.