Okay, okay. What I really should be saying is either, "Wow, that's a really nice car I just bought", or,
"AHHHHH!"
But I am surprisingly calm.
When you receive a bill that high, it's sort of so surreal that you can't actually fathom paying it, so you sort of just feel like bragging about it instead. "Hey, guess what! I got a $20k hospital bill! What's YOUR highest bill? Ha! I bet mine's higher than yours! Isn't this so EXCITING?"
Yes, I realize that the real world doesn't really function this way, but I'm quickly coming to learn that in the medical world, all you can really do is just "go with it" and pretend that everything's alright. So here's to letting at least this one worry off my chest.
Today started out pretty good. Blood sugar tested at 72 this morning - Awesome! I had oatmeal and a fried egg for breakfast, and before lunch my blood sugar was 86. The Endo adjusted my insulin levels this week when I went in for an appointment Monday, and my blood sugar levels, while occasionally moody, have seemed to level out for the moment quite well.
Finals are next week and I will admit that I am succumbing to pre-finals stress. But I'm doing my best to handle it all. I have a handy little Whiteboard I got while staying in the hospital. I write out all my To-Do's and it gives me an undeniable sense of satisfaction to check each task off as I finish it.
Yesterday was good as well, I went to Valencia to drop off the evil ten-essay-Wall Street Journal Project that I waited until THIS WEEK to start! I'll be glad after school is officially DONE next week and my serious case of Senior-itis will be alleviated for, hopefully, ever. (Then I will have to settle for other less-convincing excuses for procrastination - note to self: start writing the list now! (Or tomorrow...)
I planned to stop by Erica's house on the way back from Valencia so we could study for our economics finals, and as I held my cell phone up to my ear to call her, she answered, sounding more excited than if she'd won a free car.
"I'm at Valencia too. THEY'RE HANDING OUT FREE VEGETABLES ON THE SSB PATIO! AND I GOT A FREE PLANT!"
Nothing like free vegetables to get me in the mood to keep eating healthy.
So in honor of Earth day, I got a free head of organic lettuce and one of the best cucumbers I've ever tasted. I also got a free thyme plant - (I still think it's pronounced "THYme" and not "time". I possess a miserably useless green thumb... (I once killed a cactus because I didn't water it enough) so hopefully I'll be able to keep this plant alive for longer than two weeks, and soon be enjoying some thyme tea.
Don't forget, for all you freebie-excited people out there - tomorrow Lowe's is giving away 1 million free trees! Don't you just love Earth Day?
Now that I've gotten out some of my finals stress, it is time to get back to work and STUDY!
What do you plan to do over this Summer?
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