I Probably Have Ebola

So I’m out the door in about 30 minutes to go to my sister’s for Thanksgiving. Since she’s working tomorrow, we’re celebrating today. Tons of people, tons of food, possible miracles such as my Dad and Mom in the same room at the same time (that’s never awkward). You know there are going to be way too many people when my sister asks if we can bring folding chairs. Ugh.

But, you know, holidays are supposed to be about the people and all that jazz. </eyeroll>

I went to the dentist yesterday for the first of my gum scraping routines. It’s so fun they have to split the mouth up into quadrants and do one quadrant each treatment. $250 later + another $80 for antibiotics and that’s another bunch of money spent really damn fast. Looking forward to the sequels. The many, many sequels.

And then I got this phone call the other day from the doctor, saying she wants to talk to me about my recent MRI. Not that I had an MRI, mind you, but this was just the receptionist calling so it’s not like she needs to know that I had a cardiac stress test and a chest x-ray recently.

“Is there a problem?” I asked, because when your doctor’s office says that they want to talk about your test results without telling you WHY, it’s a little disturbing.

“The doctor just wants to discuss the results,” she said. In other words, “I’m not telling you because you’ve probably contracted some horrible disease we haven’t even classified yet and it’ll be a miracle if you make it in next week for your appointment.”

Which, by the way, is Monday. So I get to stress about that shit for 5 more days. I mentioned this to my mom, a nurse, and said, “If it was horrible news, they’d want to see me ASAP, wouldn’t they?”

Saying the comforting thing that only a mom can, she said, “Not necessarily.”

Thanks, Mom. Way to harsh my holiday buzz. Oh, right. I don’t have a buzz.

I’ll be back tomorrow.

If I don’t see you before then, have a happy Thanksgiving, those of you that celebrate it. Everyone outside the States, have a happy Thursday. No SecondHand Radio tomorrow because of the holiday.