Random Musings

The Pumpkin has finally laid her sweet head down in slumber.. ah, bliss. That child had so much energy today. Trying to change her diaper was like wrestling a slippery eel! Lucky for her, she's so cute.

So.. I went to the doctor today to get my TDAP vaccine.. Tetnus, Diptheria and Pertussis. Apparently the latter has reared it's ugly head and so they are urging the herd to get pricked against it's nastiness. Anyway, I'm sitting there in the waiting room - for a long time it's just me and a wide expanse of chairs. What kills me is that as people start trickling in, they chose to sit RIGHT NEXT TO ME. I mean, seriously, there are like 45 other chairs and they had to sit next to me. What's up with that?! Mind you, this happened not just once but 3 times. I know this because I sat there for what seemed like an eternity- I guess nurse visits don't have the same priority as Doctor's visits, so I got to wait and watch all sorts of teeming humanity come in. I wished I'd had a biohazard suit or at the very least a Purel shower. :)

Needless to say, I felt not a thing- guess my arm is still numb from the flu shot I got the other day.. I am on a roll ! I did feel a bit woozy reading all the potential side effects ( of course, they hand you this AFTER you've had the shot)- it's like one of those ads on tv for drugs where the possible effects sound way worse than the actual disease.. gas with oily discharge? Nausea? Confusion? Sleeplessness? What happens then? Do you take another pill for that?!

Anyway, I am now innoculated to the gills.. ready to brave the germ tubes of airplanes I'll be on all next month, and also against whatever funk the in laws bring to Thanksgiving. I'm always a bit wary after my sister in law brought her visibly ill child a few years back.. poor little thing was pale and miserable and ended up hurling everywhere. Nice. I'm all for family togetherness but a little judgement and consideration is a good thing. I put her in the same class as random strangers in the supermarket that try to put there germy hands all over my infants hands that clearly are going in her mouth.

I'm starting to sound like a ranting Michael Jackson germaphobe lunatic so I'll drag my cranky self off to bed. Peace out.