What happened to my quiet week?

[PastorDan]

At the beginning of the week, I said we had a quiet week scheduled for a change.  Then Tuesday, I had some heart palpitations.  My PCP's partner had a cancellation for that afternoon, so I took the slot, & sent my boss an e-mail (since I couldn't find him, and knew it would show up on his mobile phone, wherever he was).  Well, next thing you know, I was surrounded by three higher-ups, offering to call 911.  I eventually gave up, and went to the doctors' office 45 minutes early, with one of them riding along, and a co-worker following behind to drive him back.  As expected, EKG was fine, but they scheduled me for an echocardiogram to be sure, drew a bucket or two of blood, and said they'd get my insurance to okay a stress test & then call me with a date & time.

Oh, Wednesday morning, they insisted I had to have a return-to-work letter from the doctor.  Got one, from the receptionist, with a rubber stamp of the doctor's signature.

Tuesday night, a funeral director called me; an elderly hermit (very paranoid, and probably mentally ill) who had been a sometimes attendee of our church a few years ago had passed away.  Could I do the funeral on Friday?

Last night, Nancy asked me to get Tim at school (late basketball practice) on the way home.  Well, miscommunication between the two of them resulted in about 45 minutes of us frantically trying to find out where he might be.  Turns out he was at the high school instead of the middle school.  She was quite upset, but I think I had him prepared for her reaction before we made it home.  All's well that ends well?

Today's echo heart scan was uneventful.  Obvious arrhythmia during the audio recordings, just as there was when they checked my carotid arteries a year ago.  Tech said my ejection fraction looked okay to her, but added usual disclaimers.

Tonight I go to calling hours, trying to learn any more from this poor old guy's family than I already know.  The funeral is tomorrow afternoon; I'm using several of my few remaining vacation hours recently accumulated.

Saturday morning, I have a zoning hearing on a property that the church is trying to sell.

Sunday after church, I get to meet the one remaining of Nancy's grandkids I've yet to meet.  He's the son of her second son, but lives with his mother, and doesn't get to see his father's family often.  I think he's around four or five years old.

And so my question stands.  I need some rest.

[Nancy_LA_MA]

Why is it that chocolate is the first thing to go?  

[Quixotic1]

We have yet to discover where our brains go, but I am sure they are hanging out together drunk someplace.

PastorDan - sorry for hijacking your thread.  Dis you get any results?  How are you feeling?  Did they tell you to watch the chocolate and the caffeine?

Quix

[cainer]

lol  always  wonder  why radio  was  to  loud!!  wow he gets around  i bet your  socks  r  with my gloves!!
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[Lulu54]

PD, so sorry your spare time took a dive this week.  I'm so sorry it has been a rough one for you.  Here's to a better one next week.  Please keep me posted on the cardiac scare - I'm trusting it is behind you now.

And bless those techs who will answer questions unofficially.  A good EF is wonderful news - that's essential to cardiac function.

as always,
Lu

[michelleric]

Thank you for the laugh, I needed that!

[rendean]

Totally hysterical!!!!!!!!!!  BTW, I know the little man who beats you all night long. If he is in my house every night , how does he make it to your house across the country? Does he have a sleigh like Santa or did you leave out that part of the secret?

I'm glad to know that all my missing socks are going to good use for the hawks. Did the environmentalists have anything to do with the cat training?

Thanks for 'splaining  stuff!

Ren

[Quixotic1]

Oh, so now I'm responsible for explaining how the Universe works??!

Okay, There is a little man who sneaks into your car at night and turns the volume of the radio up so it blasts you when you start the engine in the morning.

This is the same skunk that sneaks into your bedroom and beats you all over every night.

He also collects all the Bic pens and sells them on the black market.

Coat hangers multiply in closets.  They fornicate by twisting their necks around each other.  So, if you slip an empty thread spool onto the neck of hangers, they can't twist and replicate - it's like an IUD for hangers.

Paper clips grow up to be extra hangers.  That's where they all go.

My cat, Mittens, from my childhood went from neighbor to neighbor collecting underwear and one sock from all of all neighbors.  She had 70 kittens and by my calculation, now has 148,438 sock-stealing progeny spread across the country.  These extra socks are given to hawks for nesting material.

All food of similar color have similar calories.  Thus, chocolate has the same calories as mushrooms.

All food eaten while leaning over the sink are devoid of calories.

Although the moon is one third the size of the earth, it's farther away.

Things are more like they are now, then they ever were before.  (Teddy Roosevelt)

Murphy....was an optimist.

End Lesson One

Quix

[mistylee]

This coming week I am very, very busy!!

Mistylee

[Wobbly]

hope you feel better soon... so much for a quiet week.

take care and let us know how your feeling
wobbly
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[rendean]

Quix: So, THAT'S what we've all been doing wrong! Why didn't you pass this little nugget along before now? :-)

PD: Hope you take notice of the theory and make sure you're extremely busy from here on out.

[Zacksmomi]

LOL!!! That is good advice Quix.

[Quixotic1]

All of the obviously happened because you left too many open slots in your week.  You went about it all wrong.  You need to be horrifically busy and then just cancel stuff as it approaches.  Then the gods of Chaos won't know that they have room to throw sh!t at you.

Here's praying that the Echo is normal.  Sorry you had to go through that, but you left the openings....just saying.

Quix

[rendean]

Wow, what a week! Certainly not quiet. I do hope all of your cardiac testing continues to be normal.  

Take care,
Ren

[Zacksmomi]

That is quite a week!  It seems to me that no matter how easy and relaxing you expect things to be, craziness always finds us.

I do hope your test results provide healthy answers.

Take care and get some rest

D