Hallelujah!, It's Friday! I'm not sure why that's so exciting to me because my husband works Tuesday through Saturday, so it's not quite the weekend for us yet. But anyway. Today is the last day to enter the giveaway for the gorgeous scarf or baby blanket. Don't forget to do that after you read my life changing responses to Five Question Friday.
1. What is the most physically painful thing that has ever happened to you?
Kidney Stones. For sure. Worse than labor. I've passed them twice and the second time I thought I was going to die. I actually made my husband take me to the emergency room. When I got there I couldn't walk, talk, think coherently, or pee. In fact, I hadn't been able to pee for hours and hours, despite the urgency I felt. The nurse asked me for a urine sample, and I mumbled that I'd try... And for some reason I was able to pee there in the hospital and then I felt completely fine. Like nothing had gone wrong at all. And I felt like an idiot because I hadn't even seen a doctor yet. But then the nurse looked at the urine sample and said, "Oh, yeah. I can see the stones in there. They're so big I can see the barbs on them."
And that, good people, is some cool crap. I felt like Hercules.
2. How much sleep do you get at night?
Not enough, that's for sure. I usually get about seven hours, but I think I'm the kind of loser who really needs something like ten hours in order to feel like I've slept at all. I think that's just because of nine and a half years of having kids deprive me of those precious REM moments.
3. How long did you believe in Santa Claus? How did you find out that he does not exist?
I think I was about ten when there was no more trace of magic, but the realization was a gradual one, not a specific moment. I hope it happens the same way for my kids.
4. What was the last movie you saw in a theater?
The last movie I saw was a double feature at the drive-in: Dinner For Schmucks and Despicable Me. The last movie I saw in a really for real theater was The Lovely Bones. Man, that was forever ago. But I'm going to go ahead and admit that I'm pretty excited to see Harry Potter in a couple weeks. We don't go to those movies until they've been out for a while because I don't like crowds or people who clap at the end of a movie. But I do drive by the theater with my kids a few hours before those big blockbuster movies open so we can check out the weirdos who are dressed like wizards or sparkly vampires. And then we make fun of them.
5. What do you wear to bed?
Warm-up pants, a t-shirt, and my best impression of a headache.
Now. Go enter that giveaway! Only a few hours left, and as of right this moment there are fewer than 25 entries! That's good odds!
First of all, I always say that kidney stones are God's way of ensuring that men feel something similar to what women feel during childbirth...but a woman who has stones? Twice? Who already has mutilated genitalia? I have no words.
ReplyDelete1. I once had a 3" nail stuck in my big toe - only thing is, I had no idea it went in there. I was playing with friends one day and I felt a sharp pain in my toe, like something went in, only I couldn't see anything. I had sharp pains up my leg for the next year or so and it got so bad I asked my dad to look at it. We didn't have insurance so he basically dug several inches into my big toe with a sewing needle and pulled out a 3" nail that was now totally black.
2. Anywhere from 4-8 - but it's NEVER continuous. One or both of the kids wake up during the night.
3. Probably about 10. My sister? When she was 8. When I found out, I told her too.
4. Uhhhhhh....oh boy....I cannot remember. It's been so long...I think it was Up in 3D.
5. boxer briefs and shirtless/t-shirt/long sleeve shirt depending on the season.
I want to see the new Harry Potter too and as JP is not at all interested, I think I may make a movie date with myself. I don't know how long it's been since I've done ANYTHING by myself, much less go to a movie, but this is the last one! (Ok, the first half of the last one, but still). I have to see it in the theater. But I will wait awhile to see it because I also hate crowds and the clapping at the end. It's not like the people in the movie can hear the claps or anything.
ReplyDeleteOh Bethany just when I thought I couldn't love you anymore. We have the same taste in lingerie. Way to be proactive.
ReplyDeleteOoohh.. I should've said the part about a headache too! You're the best. (I didn't know kidney stones has barbs! No wonder they hurt! Yikes)
ReplyDeleteBest impression of a headache - that's my favorite line of the day!
ReplyDeleteAre we making Harry Potter our "Christmas" movie while we're there???? Hmmmm?????
I agree with #1, but mine were gallstones instead of kidneystones. Comparable though, right? I always thought it was tons worse than labor, but I always had epidurals before the end so I couldn't be totally sure. Then I was watching that lady with 19 kids and she said her gallstones were worse than labor, so I felt totally justified!
ReplyDeleteI had gallstones too, Erin. I had them all through my last pregnancy, then finally had to have it removed when my daughter was a couple of months because one of the stones got caught in a pipe (yeah, I know - technical, right?). Anyway, WORSE PAIN EVER!! There wasn't enough morphine in the world on that day.
ReplyDeleteDude, the last movie I saw in a theater was Dukes of Hazzard...don't judge.
ReplyDeleteThen we got pirated satelite so we get to watch movies for free.
Don't tell the feds.
Oh Bethany, you are a stud. I can't even IMAGINE what those stones would feel like...and you don't even get the reward of a baby afterwards.
ReplyDelete"Best impression of a headache"!! You're killing me.