*mutter*

[perididdle]

So I missed more school today. Not that I generally minded for the moment, but I hope we didn't have a lot of homework. Actually, I have a weekend to do it, but if I go tomorrow (more than likely will) I will have only gone to school 2 days and about 2 hours. Whhhy? Oh lessee, what happened today...

On the bus I noticed one of my fingers felt swollen. Actually, it felt like it had fallen asleep and was just kind of numb, but that didn't go away. Then during keyboarding (first hour) I realized my whole left hand was starting to do the same thing, then my right. I was kinda freaked by it...I mean, my hand was twice as squishy as it should have been, and my pinkie finger was as wide as my ring finger usually is. I didn't know if I should tell someone, so what do I do...I got outta Mrs. Center's class since I was done anyway, and went to Mrs. Cunningham's room. OF COURSE. By that time I had what FELT like weird bruises on my feet, like bumps that I could feel when I walked, but I couldn't see them. And seriously, I thought I had chicken pox...cause my legs were driving me insane...but yeah I wander over to Mrs. Cunningham and tell her my hands are swollen and she spazzes and sends me to the nurse, who then proceeds, to ask if I'm allergic to anything (no), if new things are in the house (no), if I took new medicine (no), or if I've been sick (well, yeah)...and then if I took aspirin while I was sick, which was another yeah. SO daddy is called and I'm dosed with Binadryl (sp?)...but not without getting freaked out because apparently the freaky invisible chicken pox/weirdo blotchy redness on my skin at the time are some of the rare signs of REYES SYNDROME, which can be caused by taking aspirin during an infection and happens after the general sicky thing has gone away. GREEAAATTT...

I went back to Mrs. Center's room, then to Mrs. Cunningham's for 2nd hour...swelling went down with was yaygood because I COULD FEEL MY HANDS AGAIN and they weren't purple. This is a joyful thing, trust me. But then my dad shows up to take me to the doctor and I was slightly thankful...the Binadryl was going to knock me out cold if I had to just SIT in a classroom.

Doctor's office takes forever...I get my old doctor who I don't like or really trust to tell you the truth, he's a good doctor but meh...he sounds like Ben Stine, too. But anyways, he tells me the skin stuff was something or other, dry skin cause I use too much hot water. Well, screw that, I like my showers boiling. And the hand thing could have been a leftover from the cold thing I had, he didn't say much...but has anyone else gotten freaky puffy!limbs after getting a cold? He said Reyes Syndrome is insanely rare, only 1 in 1 million people are affected by it, 50 cases a year, blah blah...note I'm still freaking because hey, I have the chance dangit. Stupid Chicken Run...now my dad keeps asking if I'm delirious or if I'm seeing/hearing things, because those would be the happy signs of my brain swelling up.

I'm slightly bitter and moody about all of this, don't TELL ME if I might have Reyes Syndrome. Cause I prolly don't, but you're freakin' me out.

Whew. I had to rant about that, and I'm really sorry if you didn't want to hear about my freaky body day. On a nice note, at least I didn't have cramps. *Sends happy fairies with bags of Midol to Teh Daphyn*

I feel like I'm being a bitch about all of this, cause really nothing happened. And I don't care, which shows how much of a bitch I'm being...but I just had an annoying day. And if my hands swell up tomorrow, I'm gonna be really, really unamused.

-Maddy

You know what cheers me up? THIS QUOTE.

"Bunnies don't make noise, unless you, like, squeeze 'em really hard."

Which isn't mine, but is from Daphyn's website quote page. You know what also cheers me up? Thinking about Health class the other day. SOMEHOW we got to the subject of Mr. Lameroaux (I can never spell his name right) and whether he's gay or not, and this came up.

Sarah: He's RACIST! He puts his hands on our shoulders and touches us and *shudder*
Me: *Blinks* But that's doesn't make him RACIST...that makes him a pedophile!

Comments

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

Hm, I say that you don't have Reyes Syndrome. Just because I said so. :)

And I don't think you're being a bitch.

[perididdle.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm sure I don't, anyways. Fwee!

Meh, last night I was bitter and ranty about it, so I felt like I might being a bitch. But, ah, now that I look at it, I was just grumbly. ^_^