ER, SchmER

"Abdominal pain is also called belly pain." Thank you St. Luke's CareNotes System. You may have missed me this weekend and with good reason I can be a very helpful person to have around. My greatest apologies I give to you, but I was ill. It all hit very suddenly Saturday afternoon and ended with a trip to the ER. No worries though I am doing fine. Here are some minor details if you want to know about what my vomit consisted of or how many times I passed out I can tell you later. This is just a small version of a really long story.

I was suddenly struck with stomach pain Saturday afternoon. My mother's diagnosis was Gallbladder attacks. Thank God that was not the Doctors. After some puking and fainting Monday morning I took one of the most mundane trips in my life. The ER. It was not tv show worthy that is for certain. I laid on a bed for 4 hrs just so they could tell me I have a virus. Well not just for that I was severly dehydrated, hince the passing out. I got an IV, pain killers, and nausea pills. I felt much better after my visit and I am feeling even better now. I expect to be back in class tomorrow morning bright and early for prayer.

Oh by the way, my apologies to Dan and Warren for my incoherent babble Saturday afternoon. I do not remember all of what I was said, but I am certain it was idiotic. Thanks to Dan, Seth, Kenrick, Kate, and Debreanna for covering my normal duties and helping me out when I really needed it. Lastly and most important I am so grateful for God's great grace and healing in my life. I could not have made it through the weekend without it, seriously.

What's that...On your face?

Today Ethan Grove asked me why I had so many ow eees all over my face. I love it when kids realize I have freckles it makes me happy. I had to explain that they did not hurt, that they are just freckles.

Most kids want to know how I got them. I usually call them angel kisses and say the angels all loved me so much that they came in the middle of the night and gave me kisses when I was a small child. I once had a little girl ask me how she could get the angels to come kiss her. I then felt bad because I realized she would never get freckles because she was too dark. So I covered up by saying sometimes you do not notice when they kiss you. Then I pointed at a mole on her face and told her that was an angel kiss. She felt better about herself. After that point I stopped emphasizing how much love the angels had for me.

My Grandpa told me this little farce when I was little to make me feel better about my fair complexion and it worked. In the words of Jake Lee "some people are doomed to be white!" Thanks Jake it is so true and I would rather be white than tan any day. Maybe?

I talk like...a ?

As I was spending the day with my sister yesterday an interesting topic of conversation came up and I had a grand revelation. I talk like a man! Apparently there is a little thing called "girl talk" that I had no idea existed until yesterday. My eyes were opened so I have chosen to blog about it hoping that you might have a similar revelation or perhaps you already know this.
It all starts with the stereotypical little girl. Little girls like to play with dolls and tend to view their relationships with other girls as equal. If one female is bosier than the others she is not well received because it is like she is saying she is above the other girls. This is not so with boys they grasp the concept of unequality at a young age possibly because positions are not equal on sports teams. By the way this is speculation and I am not claiming to have all of the answers to the differences between the sexes.
So because there are differences between males and females there are different ways you deliver a message. With most females (once again not true in all cases just look at my sister and I) you need to skirt around the situation instead of coming out and saying it. Of course with males you can just bluntly say what is in your head and for the most part it will be received and processed accordingly. Women tend to hear what you say and overexaggerate it. I am not a man so I may be a little off.
What does this have to do with me? I just now realized when I have something to say I just blurt it out because that is what my family does. I learned my manly talk from my mother and sister. I tend to hurt a lot of girls feelings and I just thought it was because I am a jerk, well I guess I am not I just process things differently. I have always responded better to people who speak bluntly to me so I thought others would too. Not true! Not even close. I am so silly sometimes.
So what is your opinion? Go ahead, like I said this is not some great study done by a great group of scientist at a university. It is maily just speculation from my sister and myself.