I've finally started to upload the designs for my divination deck. This is my big project right now, aside from school coming up, and I know it will take a while to finish. But my goal is to have a working, hand-made, laminated deck by the time I am done, with all the meanings written and printed in a little book, complete with layouts. This isn't a tarot deck, it has more parallels with maybe just the Major Arcana, or a rune card deck. All of it is based on my Cillara and Ilene story, so this has been a way to deeply examine what that story means to me. Keep watch and I'll update more when I have more. The deck will have 27 cards to it in all.

Now that I've managed to scare the shit out of myself and quite a few of my friends and my parents, I figured I should share with the rest of you my wonderfun trip to the ER.

Oh, yes. I said the Emergency Room.

So, okay, here's the deal. I've been sick with a cold for a while, right? Everyone has the plague at work, and I suppose it was only a matter of time before I got it. So I had the usual slew of of symptoms: congestion everywhere, sneezing, tons of coughing, mucous, ears popping, feeling like I was tired all the time, headache. The works. I did not have a fever, and my only stomach upset was from coughing too much and throwing up from it (not fun at all.) So, I've been sick for maybe a week and a half. Missed a few days of work here and there, going home early, stuff like that. I did go see a clinic doctor (it was too late to see my Primary Care Doc, and I had to work open the next few days) and she said I had a virus, that it was in the bronchial tubes and not my lungs, and prescribed me a big pill that had prescription sudafed and mucinex combined, told me to take a lot of hot, steamy showers to break up the congestion, gargle salt water, and take an anti-inflammatory. So I was doing that since Tuesday. Yesterday rolled around, and I was closing at work. I kept feeling worse and worse as the day progressed, and only managed to take the decongestant pill by nearly crushing it, and decided against taking the Aleve because my throat felt so raw and closed up.

So I went to work, and it was hard to do anything. I was so tired trying to do everything, and was getting out of breath. And more out of breath. And then I was so out of breath that it was hard to talk and walk, and it was hurting to breathe. I called my mom, and a few other people, and finally decided to go to an Urgent Care place to see what was up. I told my manager, and had Trevor and Karen come get me, since I was really light headed and driving was a bad idea. Unfortunatly, the Urgent Care place closed at 8, and took their last patient at 7, which I learned when I called them at 7:05 to figure out exactly where they were. Suuuuuck. My last option was the ER, so off we went.

It was a long wait, and the ER I went to had these restaraunt-style pagers that they give you for waiting for every procedure while you were still in triage, and I went through three of them. I sent Karen and Trevor off to get dinner after I had been triaged and was waiting for an EKG. And EKG, you ask? Yeah, that's standard when you present with shortness of breath and pain in your chest. By the way, I was still pulling the lead points off of me when I woke today. They stick tons of the things on you! Also, since I was having trouble reading my book cause I was all woozy, I decided to entertain myself by texting my friends and letting them know I was bored and breathless in the ER waiting room.

Finally it was my turn, and I got shuffled into a bed back in the ER, all huffing and puffing and coughing like mad. They stuck an IV in me and drew blood, which didn't help my breathing, since I am TERRIFIED of needles. I damn near passed out, although I didn't jump. And they had to draw blood twice, since the first time it drew so slowly that the hemoglobin went too thick or something, which throws off all the counts. Then they gave me a chest x-ray. Sometime in there they gave me a squirt of this crazy cough syrup, and then, since I had presented with shortness of breath and chest pain (I pretty much had pulled a muscle coughing, but you know) they gave me a CT scan of my chest to make sure I hadn't thrown a clot or something. So, I've been sick, right? And I can't sleep for shit, right? So I've been watching a lot of tv... like House. Yeah. Don't watch House and then go to the ER, where they scare you with the words CT Scan. Not fun.

Then I had a 45 minute wait for the test results to come back, so I sat there on the bed and chatted with Karen and Trevor. As the time passed, I started to feel much better. My breathing eased, and all of the muscle-cramping and tingling of my body and the elephant stomping on my chest got better. I still felt heavy in my chest, but nothing like before. So the doctor came, and told me all my test came back great, and they concluded that I had a virus (sound familiar?) and that I was to get a prescription for the awesome cough syrup and go home and rest. So I pretty much had inflamed my tubes, and couldn't breathe, and the awesome cough med eased that a lot.

And why is the awesome cough syrup so awesome? Cause it had Codine in it. Yeaaaaaah. So we nabbed my Rx from a 24 hour pharmacy, went home, and I went to bed. Set my alarm for 10ish in the morning to take my meds. I think i managed to crawl out of bed at 10:30, took the Rx, and rolled back into bed again. Woke up about 3pm. So now I am just sitting here. I'm going to play a bit of Wow, maybe, although I am starting to get sleepy again. I'm off this weekend, so I'm pretty much sleeping for two days solid. Wee!

And that was my wonderfun trip to the ER. I really never want to do that again.

Obama won! weeeeee!

Taken from =SterlingDragon78 's journal.

The first 10 deviants who post in this journal will be featured. I will go though your gallery and choose 3 of your deviations I like the most and post them in my journal for everyone to see!

The catch?

You have to put this in your journal as well if you posted!

So go on and reply to this if you would like to be featured.

Mmmm copy-paste meme goodness. But I love the idea, so comment, my good friends! And continue the gallery-loving goodness!


Also, I am working on more of the Once Bitten Renn Faire Woman storyline, and ~MrWerewolf is graciously helping me with a website for it. ^___^ Major Ossimness there!

Although it was rainy today. Not stormy, just rainy. This is turning out to be a very wet April, in drastic contrast to last April, which was part of the reason we are in a drought. We are getting closer to scrabbling out of it, though, inch by swampland inch of rain.

Anyways, I've been working and so forth, and I just got back from Frolicon, which rawked. I had the most awesome time this year, I think I will volunteer for con staff next year. Game room, of course. It's not like 12 hours of work is going to be a hardship, I spend at least that there on my own.

I've been exercising, too, although I probably overdid it today. I feel kinda funky. I'll feel better after some sleep, I am sure. My body is just protesting the idea of exercise. My body seems to have this fondness for being lazy.

Been very... ADD about art lately. I can't seem to keep my attention on any one thing. Honestly, I feel that way about everything right now. I think it's the rain. I'm always a little weird in the rain.

Just working my way to Animazement, really. My birthday is on that Saturday of the con, which is so awesome that I cannot even begin to contain my happiness. Now if I could just get all social at Animazement the way I am at Frolicon or even Dragoncon, I might be able to rustle up a party or something.

Here's hoping.

Anyone out there going to Animzement?