This & That

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my company moved to a space, and by new i mean brand spankin’ new. i think my cube is bigger than my old one. it definitely has less coffee stains. i took a bunch of pictures of the space, check them out here. http://tinyurl.com/29z8kja

my relatives are also visiting from TN this week.. it’s so nice to see them.

i’m live from the beach house. it’s pretty nice… i just wish it wasn’t so humid here. it’s terrible to go outside. :)

i’ve opted not to go to the beach with the first wave of beach goers. it’s nice to have some peace and quiet here in the house. i might even take a little nap. :)

it rained this morning and last night.. i couldn’t really tell because i sleep in a rain forest no matter what with audreys rain machine. i must have gotten up to pee 4 times last night. JSI is coming to visit on thursday..hopefully the weather will be better. :(

it’s funny the different parenting styles.. cath was right.. maybe i’m not so bad off being single and childless. :) some of the kids go to bed at 7pm, some stay up later than the adults. some sleep in, some are up crazy early.. some swim on their own, some use flotation devices.

i posted some photos to FB.. check them out there. i’ll keep updating that album.

500 miles, 18 gallons of gas, 7.5 hours, 5 podcasts, 3 phone conversations, 1 stop, 0 redbulls later I’m @ the palatial estate of ebh. Thank you Adam Carolla, Bill Simmons and Dan Savage for keeping me entertained.

if any of you are friends with me on facebook you already probably know that Mike called St. Joes his home this weekend.

the gist of it was this…

he was participating in a “study” at his cardiologist’s office where they read his pacemaker and made slight adjustments every three months. 6 months ago they made an adjustment that “didn’t feel right”, and they turned it back, and then he was fine…  this past friday was another visit to the study office and once again they tweaked something that didn’t end up “feeling right”. he went back to the doctor 2 times, and the 2nd time they decided to admit him.

instead of just undoing what they did to the pacemaker right away, they let him sit in the “snakepit” till sunday when SBH insisted he start walking laps around the floor to test the new meds… sure enough halfway through the 2nd lap he went into v-tach. it was a surreal scary experience.. from looking at mike you would have never known anything was the least bit wrong.. but ALL the nurses on the floor broke out into a sprint down the hall past us towards his room.. then someone yells out, “he’s not in there!”.. luckily we were right next to the nurses station and not in the elevator to the 1st floor liek we were planning. needless to say they made him sit down immediately and quickly got an IV of lidacaine going.. his heartbeat went back to normal right away.

this was bad news, we were all pretty hopeful he’d be coming home monday… but if he can’t walk 2 laps around the hospital wing, then they’d never let him go home, and he might even need to be transported to rochester. the doctor shows up eventually and he takes an inventory of the pacemaker to try to figure out what was happening.. he syncs the pacemaker up to a laptop and hits the screen a  million times with a stylus and lets us know that on friday the tech had set his pacemaker to pace faster when it senses he’s moving. this change was made to attempt to make him less short of breath. they call it rate response. well.. the doctor finally turned off that rate response feature because it was obviously irritating his ventricles. then we did 4 or so practice laps around the floor with no issues… i don’t understand why they didn’t do that from the get go… so frustrating. so after another successful walk a bout monday morning they let him go.

some other things i learned while i was in the hospital this weekend…

1. if you don’t feel like shuffling over to the bathroom when you’re in the hospital, just stand up and shit the floor.. you’re practically encouraged to let loose your bowels..

2. thank god i didn’t witness this, but sometime st joes will let your defibrillator electrocute you 20-30 times in a row…

3. if you are touching a person whose defibrillator is crackling in their chest, and shocking it’s owner, you too will feel the shock.

4. it costs $8 a day for cable in your room, that equals out to $240/month. pure robbery.

5. there is no valet parker’s on the weekends. cath found out the hard way.

6. if you just walk up to the desk and tell the attendants your name they *will find* someone in their DB with your name on it.. picture or not..

7. i felt bad bringing a pizza into the hospital, till i saw a guy with a shopping bag full of buckets of fried chicken.

8. thank god for SBH who knows what to ask, what to insist, and can worry for all of us.

in other news, i had a going away party for my coworker this past friday, it was mad fun. i was impressed with the management that showed up this time, i really didn’t think they would… many drinks were drank, car bombs were had, and songs were sung.

this weekend i am going to VA to enjoy the beach at a rented house. friday will be a little torturous. i’ll be leaving to make the 9 hour drive at 5 on friday. i am hoping that leaving so late will work out so that i miss the majority of the traffic/construction. but it’s going to be a long tiring drive to make by myself. if i haven’t talked to you in a while, expect a phone call friday night. :)

i’ll be seeing my neice and nephew though, and EBH and RH so it’ll be worth it i guess. ;) hopefully lil e is cool with floating around in the pool all week. :) i think i’ll be fine with not stepping foot on the beach all week.

i also hope that i am able to connect with my old roommate JSI and see her babies!

when i get back its a flurry of visits from MA peeps. JBP the first weekend, LK, HEKD, DD & AR at the end of the week. and then JN to round out the memorial day weekend. i feel so loved. :) i’m also pretty excited about the fair.

i don’t know what’s gotten into me lately but i can’t concentrate to save my life… i took a little drive around the city after becoming the mayor of fifis ice cream shop and i was actually scared for myself. i’m glad i didn’t come across any police cars, i was swerving all over the road and i wasn’t even on my phone. i wonder why this is happening to me.. anyone have any ideas?

in other news, it’s so freaking hot and muggy here lately it’s unbearable. after i got out of my car from said ice cream mission it was so bad i thought my clothes were going to catch on fire.

i’m looking forward to going to wanakena, ny this weekend for some R&R.. my parents and the rochester H’s will be there.. so i look forward to seeing everybody, and playing with the kids. it looks like a tiny little stephen king town. maybe it will help rest my mind so i can concentrate better. shiiiiiit.
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