How I Deal with Life.....

How I Deal with Life.....

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Polly Polyp... I can't miss you because I never knew I had you in the first place AND other exciting news

I was trying to be responsible (now that I am fifty, I have to be sometimes) and went and had my FIRST EVER COLONOSCOPY today. Can we say "fun"? No? Well, it wasn't, so don't say it..

 I did find out I have something called diverticulitis, and the doc parted me from a little friend I didn't know I had named Polly Polyp. Goodbye dear Polly, but what in the hell is diverticulitis? See? I try to be responsible, get checkups, and then I find out I have something else going on (like there isn't enough going wrong with this body?). Ignorance is bliss. I'm going to stop going to docs.

I did manage to borrow a blue marker from the anesthesiologist and had my husband write "HI" on my right buttcheek. And coming out of the anethesia, I think I may have given the nurses a lecture on the riveting contributions that  AC/DC has made to the music world (in the Bon Scott era, of course).

When I got home from my delightful morning at the hospital, I found my brand new Abu Dhabi Education Council teaching contract for 2012 to 2014 in my email inbox. I printed it, signed it, scanned it, and emailed it back faster than Angus Young can play the opening chords to "Let There Be Rock" . I am now HOFFICIALLY going to the United Arab of Emirates to teach high school for two years! I leave in August.  Think the UAE is ready?




2 comments:

  1. When I (husband) arrived in the recovery room to be with Teri after her "procedure," the nurse said that she was having a hard time waking up from the anesthesia. I told her that it was not the anesthesia, it was not yet 9am and she never gets up before NOON!

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  2. Don't listen to the man behind the curtain. I get up at 10:30 a.m. I don't go to bed until 3 a.m, but I get up at 10:30. pfffffft!

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