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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

My Stay At the Holiday Inn

HI everyone one. SO far I'm feeling fine. Had 3 dosages on the 1st day and only 2 every subsequent day. I warned the nurses the second I started to feel vaguely sick to the stomach. They rush in with something and I fell better again. This system seems to be working better than actually waiting until I'm very sick to ask for help. Other than being a little tired and a little dizzy as I sit here (that's a new occurrence) I feel great!

Now for some more good news. Last time my room number was 1215. That side of the hall had all the low numbered room and those rooms were all "singles".... SOooooo, I was was walking down the other side of the hall that seemed to contain nothing but "Double," we stopped at the closed door barring entrance to 1239.

Mental images flew around my head. Was there a deathly guy hacking up a lung in the "other bed" listening to his Spanish TV at full volume???

So, I managed to pound out a Leary knock (by the way the Leary Firefighters' Foundation really needs to change its name to the "Denis" Leary Firefighters' Foundation... Otherwise, the foundation's name conjures up a bunch of firefighters pussyfooting about outside of a flaming inferno questioning who will go into.)
My Leary knock yielded no response. So, as I gingerly opened the door I noticed a plaque of some sorts undereath my room number. I enter the room to find that its the size of a double with just 1 bed!!!!

And I look around a little further to find gold trim on everything, a chair rail, wall paper, a galley kitchen/wet bar, decorative ceiling tiles and an armoire with a multi inpute TV and a VCR.

The easy chair folds out into a cot for Amanda, and there is an alcove with a breakfast table and 2 chairs.

In my wet bar, I have a full size microwave, and a larger size dorm fridge

The room is really quite nice and is great for my psyche. When the door is close and its quiet, I fell like I'm in a hotel room! The bathroom also has blue tiles, a Kenmore pedestal sink and a glass door with glass block showerstalll. And a toilet that flushes with Niagara force.

Anyway, I don't know what it is, whether its the room, knowing that everything is like this time around, or the wonderful company that is always at time wide reedy to comfort me, even If I don't need comforting, but I feel as good as I could have expected.

I wish I could post pic, but the download attachment was left at home. mea culpa.

A few more things that I've encountered in the past few days that are worth sharing:

Tylenol - before you go into see the doctor at Sylvester, they have a list of questions that lit nurses mush as you and check off. I've noticed that they've finally stopped asking me if I wear glasses. (duh?) but today, they replaced that question with an equally as stupid one.

Question: are you taking any medications?
Me: we'll, I'll haven't taken any of the side effects drug prescribed for me in a while because I have any any side effects.
question: SO nothing else?
Me: Well,,, I take over the counter tylenol.... every now and then when I have a headache.
Question: So how long have you been taking Tylenol?
Amanda: No no, you don't understand, he's not on a regimen of tylenol, or anything. He just takes it as needed (as I pop a tylenol :-)
Question: OH, ok, so he just takes it as needed... So when did you first start taking Tylenol as needed?
Me: You you're asking when the first time I had a headache was, right?
Question: when was the first time you started taking Tylenol as needed?
Me: OK, I guess the first time I EVER too Tylenol was a couple of months after birth... maybe when I was teething.
Question: Of so you been on the Tylenol Regimen for YEARs now...
Me: Yea, whatever, I'm a Tylenol Junkie. That's why I'm here. I'm an addict.

The next time we see this nurse she smiles and nods and say hello Mr' Jones. Still Tylenol as needed?

There have to be some MDs out there who read this. Is there any possible explanation for the ludicrous line of questioning

More good news! I was offered a job with the Seminole County Public Defenders office today. !st real job offer. Of course I had to tell him of my situation for the summer and postponing the Bar until 2007. He said to call back in August, but he didn't think there would be a problem.

So that would be exciting. Have a job. In a place where we could afford to live. Litigating (although it would be defending people whom, in my experience, I just have a hard time believing they're innocent.... I'd be jumping all over this if it were the State Attorney's office - The Prosecutors-) but it's still a job. We'd probably be able to buy a house outside of Orlando, and we'd be near family. So, I like a lot about this job potential. On the down side, it only pays $36K a year for me to start... I don't want to sound snobby, but after 7 years of higher education at reputable institutions, I was expecting something a little higher. It makes you second guess your choice when you realize that with a BA and a JD, and if I were willing to coach a sport, I could make around $55K a year and have summers off (teaching).... Anyway, the job would be doing what I want to do, Litigating! And, from what I'm told 2 years there is more experience than you'll ever need. And after those 2 years, you can jump ship with a new better paying job. We'll see..... at least its an offer. Oh, and 1 more thing....


GO HEAT!

4 Comments:

At 4:51 AM, Blogger Kate said...

Congrats!!!! Welcome to the good side of criminal law! (Though I'm not a criminal lawyer... but that's beside the point.)

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At 6:51 AM, Blogger J. said...

even creepy people are entitled to counsel......uggh.I'm so excited that you'll be doing what you want to do AND living in Central Florida.Love the way you write,the blog's great.

 
At 7:18 AM, Blogger Kate said...

Wait... Seminole is in central Fla? I was thinking it might be somewhere near the Seminole Hard Rock. Central Fla is far away!

 
At 1:20 PM, Blogger Caren (CK) said...

congrats, Ben! That's a great offer, especially for a pill-popper... it's not every day they give junkies jobs.

Just kidding...

<3 CK

 

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