Oh what fresh new hell is this??

My God it's been the week from hell. 

~Thursday night I swore I was having a heart attack...Called 911 and they sent an ambulance and some awesome EMT's.

 I ended up in the ER at Beebe Medical with what they felt was a gallbladder attack. 6 hours later,  around 7:30am,after ekg's or eeg's, xrays and a cat scan I was in cab heading home. Drugged up on Ativan (can we discuss Ativan please? lovely little iv drug ..woohoo) telling the cab driver that the missing passenger door handle in the back was really creepy. Then I asked him if I should drive home with him...yep, i did. God bless him - no bra,no shoes, pj's on...

~Saturday evening Chewy got out and ran away, the little bastard. I mean ran like the wind. Came back tho 15 minutes later when I had gone thru the neighborhood calling his name and finally decided to get in the car to find him. He heard the car start up and the little mf'er came bounding across the street and I opened the door and he hopped in. Good Lord, my heart...

~Sunday night went out to watch the game and my purse was stolen with everything gone. Wallet,license,bank card,social security number,car keys,house keys... I have nothing. Got a ride home from the cops and my car is still there at the bar. No sign of anything from my purse.So now I start the long and laborious journey of reclaiming my identity. Can't get the license without my ss card and I can't get the ss card without a picture id... kinda like a license. And the bank?? Puhleeze, I had to breakdown in the bank lobby for them to cash a check for me. The only one I had from the welcome crap they give you. The girl kept asking me for an id or my debit card...WHAT PART OF PURSE STOLEN DON'T YOU GET??? By that point, with a taxi waiting in the parking lot($$$) and the idea that I couldn't get my money out, it wasn't hard to have a breakdown. In public... ahhh yes. Good Times!


~Tonight, the hospital calls and I think, oh God what fresh new hell is this.. turns out the cat scan they did showed a nodule on my lung. right mid lobe, 3mm ...nothing to worry about she said - um do they freaking know me?? I must have made her tell me 20 times I would be fine - probably from the 2x I had pneumonia. Get it checked in 6 months. 

Really? Again i ask... do they know me?? My right lung has been painful since I hung up the phone and of course I didn't think I could breathe right or swallow. Hello anxiety attack. You know what I could have used?? Some more of that Ativan...in an IV please.


"There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation." ~WC Fields (hahaha think about it...) 


I must add that I have had some fantastic supportive people checking in on me making sure I was ok, giving me words of encouragement, lending me money,etc. God Bless Facebook!! Say what you will but it connects people! (That post is coming.) I decided last night that in the grand scheme of things this is small potatoes. "Head up young person" ~from The Object of My Affection

a new addition to the family...Meet Chewy

CHEWY

I have to believe it was fate... I was in West Chester, after being evacuated because of  that wench IRENE when he came into my life. No one loved him and he was headed to the SPCA. I was sewing at Ruberti's when I overheard a conversation about him and when I found out he was a Pomeranian who was housebroken, I said bring him here first. Poor thing didn't even have a collar or a leash!


Some of you might know or remember that I had a Pomeranian named Keesha for 5 years before she passed of old age(she was 13 and I had adopted her from my bestie Bob) and she was awesome! I had been thinking about getting Jack a friend since he had no kitties to chase around down here at the beach. Also, I can have 2 dogs now that I own my own place and don't have to worry about apartment living with 2.

he looks like a little fox doesn't he?

It was a tricky situation that I was worried about because of Jack. Jackie's not your usual type of dog and I didn't know what I would do if they didn't get along. Luckily, I didn't have to worry about that. Everyone fell in love with Chewy right away... including Jack.

hugs and kisses

Chewy is full of life, energy and love and he makes Jack so happy. Jack acts like a puppy with him and they play for hours. It's like having WWF and a circus(w/out clowns thank you) in my living room every day.

How someone could not love this dog is mind boggling to me. Chewy fell in love with me by the first night( and I fell in love with him too) and has been a "mama leech" ever since. They both sleep on the bed with me - God Bless the Queen size bed- and take long walks with me. When I get a shower, he lays on the bathroom carpet waiting for me to get done.

I can't wait to take him to the beach next month - an outing Jackie won't be part of since he hates the sand. If Chewy is anything like Keesha was, I will have to keep him on the leash to make sure he stays out of the ocean. So now I have two babies to spoil and twice the love and protection and barking.

"sharing" their new dollar store blanket

...all is well in my happy little house by the sea.

Whole lotta shakin' going on...was it good for you??

I have been so remiss in my blog writing and really need to start doing it every day - or at least every other day. I wrote this one the day of the earthquake and never finished it.So I am finishing it now. Then i will write about Irene and how Mother Nature can be a real bitch...Oh and i got a 2nd dog. I will catch you up - don't worry! In the mean time here is- 

Was it good for you??

Sooo it's been a while, but I am pretty sure that the earth moved for me today. You know the saying... if the trailer's a rockin' then don't come a knockin'. Wait .. what?? It moved for you too? WTF? LMAO


Yeah so I am living at the Delaware Beach and the epicenter was in Virginia... sooo we got hit pretty hard today. We were rocking and rolling that's for sure but let's discuss...

I was watching a psychiatrist on tv today who said our minds, when confronted with the unexplained, will filter thru what we know and try to name what we are experiencing. Sort of like a filo-fax in our brains (and if you're too young to know what a filo-fax is.. Google it. Go ahead...I'll wait Are you back yet?) 


So when we are experiencing ummm i don't know let's say an Earthquake, something that we don't know about on the east coast... we try to explain it using what we know from our past in our minds.  So for many people, we were having vertigo, or fainting, or maybe we didn't eat enough and we were light headed. Or perhaps our dog was licking his winkie and we thought he was shaking the couch...yeah... that last one was me. 

I was sitting on the couch writing up a grocery list. let me say that we are dealing with Hurricane Irene down here in Lower slower so it's already defcon 5 on the streets. hence me needing to go to the grocery store. because I needed food... not because ms irene was coming- anyway - i felt the couch shaking and of course immediately blamed jack. I leaned over the couch seat and said Jack chill out and when I did that i almost fell off the couch - ummm not normal.

I looked down the hall and saw the blinds swinging back and forth and then looked at rhe fan and umm yah it was moving. So my brain said " yeah this isn't jack therefore it must be a seizure." simple mind process thought right?


It didn't help that my AC came on at the exact second the shaking started so then my second thought was oh shit my house is going to explode.  yeah i know, to much NCIS. anyway - after I almost fell off the couch and was holding on for dear life,everything was moving... and not in a good way.


So when it finally ended and I sat there, trying to figure out if I had a seizure or if in fact it was an earthquake, I decided to go online and see how often earthquakes actually happen down here in Lower Slower. You can imagine that it's not too often. The the phone starts ringing and the cell texts start coming and here I find out from the kid IT WAS AN EARTHQUAKE!!


And you can ask her and she'll tell you that the the first thing I said was "Oh thank God... I didn't have a seizure!"  I am so not right LOL!


Hope you all made it thru unscathed... and FYI while I was searching for the picture of the trailer rockin t-shirt I found this little slice of heaven

Bwahahahahahaha!! White Trash Barbie and Ken. Can you stand it?? I. Want. Them. 


and that is all.


Oh wait PSS - here's Jack's new friend Chewy

I just want to bite him he is so damn cute. And he is so much fun!! He makes Jackie act like a puppy! ...more on that in the next blogs.