May 04, 2005
We Jinxed Anne
A couple weeks ago, I don't know how we got on the topic, but we were talking about what we'd do if we got cancer and our hair started falling out. Oh, yeah, like you sit around and discuss Nietzsche all day! Shut up!
Anyhoo, our reactions ran the gammit.
Anne said, "I'd chose to shave mine all off myself, rather than have cancer take it from me!"
Nicholle said, "I'd shave mine off, but only in hopes that it would eventually grown back thicker."
I said, "I'd desperately cling to every last strand of mine!"
Hey, I never claimed I wasn't petty and superficial.
Then late last week, Anne started seeing lights and lost her appetite. So over the weekend, I moved her into my front room and started feeding her ice chips and telling her stories about the lake that used to be in my back yard but isn't anymore because the ducks carried it off.
No, not really. But I wanted to.
It was a week of doctor visits and worrying and hospital tests and freak-outs. Of course, I'm thinking, "It's a toomah." And I started drafting Anne's eulogy blog.
It was beautiful. Too bad I won't be able to use it. Well, at least not anytime soon. Turns out she's fine. Just some ocular migraine and a sinus infection that she has no other symptoms of because of all the allergy medicine she ingests.
Or as Anne called it, "The sinus infection that could not be diagnosed until after ruling out a cerebral hemmorage."
It's a good thing that Nicholle has been outta town on business this whole time, or she would have made an MRI appointment for herself and gone out shopping for turbans.
You know, if you think about it, it's kinda creepy. I mean, all we had to do was think about cancer, and Anne started showing these mysterious symptoms. We're like the Witches of Eastwick or something! The Power of Three! Like those chicks on Charmed! Only not slutty.
Comments
glad that anne's ok!
also:
who do you think you're kidding - you're TOTALLY slutty!
Posted by: heather at May 5, 2005 08:22 AM
Dude. You totally said you wouldn't blog about it. So now I'm not going to tell you about how a baptist church in Nebraska was praying for me.
Posted by: Anne at May 5, 2005 01:33 PM
I said I wouldn't blog about it IF it turned out to be serious. I asked if I could blog about it if it turned out to be nothing, and you said FINE!
There are baptists in Nebraska?
Posted by: Pirate Wench at May 5, 2005 02:57 PM
Yeah - I had to hear about this from freakin Demma & I was practically researching microsurgery at my conf to repair Anne's head. Btw Demma called it an aneurysm. I will try to be more slutty looking so that in event of major catastrophe I can shock the nurses station with my inappropriate garb
Posted by: Nicholle at May 9, 2005 07:43 AM