a groggy day, now a late night

Today was definately a strange way to spend a Friday.

Many don't know that I have had some intestinal problems over the years. I was hospitalized in 1995 and in 2001 with Diverticulitus, an infection in my intestine. Since 2002 I have been pain/infection free until this Lent, when I had a minor flare-up. The timing was aweful since it was a few days before my regular physical. And since I respect my doctor (actually love him and his wife...they are members of the parish as well as wonderful people!) I had to mention it to him. He checked the chart and sure enough, the last time I had an internal exam for this was nearly 5 years ago. So with referral in hand I called the Gastro folks to make an appointment and last night had the uncomfortable preparation for the procedure, and then the procedure itself late this morning (friday).

I asked to be lightly sedated, unlike last time when I was completely knocked out. I was able to watch the exam on the screen, which I found facinating.

After the recovery time (about 30 minutes to let the light sedation wear off), I was escorted to the car with Jennifer, and went home FAMISHED (nothing to eat since late Wednesday PM) and made a quick lunch. I assured Jennifer I was just fine, and I could rent a steam cleaner to do the basement rug this afternoon and maybe even finish the taxes. Jennifer just laughed (apparently I was slurry and not standing so well as I promised this).

About 5 minutes after eating lunch, I thought that maybe I could use a short nap to get some of the cobwebs out of my head from the sedation. At 1pm I went up to bed, and next stirred at 6pm, waking up just in time to pray the Angelus! Wasted an entire afternoon sleeping!

Now it is after 1am and I am WIDE AWAKE! Since everyone went to sleep I've done dishes and two loads of laundry, read a magazine and part of a book, and caught up on some reading on my favourite websites like Titusonenine.classicalanglican.net

So now I am going to try to get some sleep so that my body clock isn't too terribly off tomorrow. I have to help coach two early AM little league baseball practices, and then the boys and I are off to Jackson, MI for the model rocket launch. I guess the taxes and rug can wait......