serendipti's Diaryland
Diary
10:54 p.m. - Tuesday, Oct. 05, 2004
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long femurs...jews and germans....etc.
okay, so I had a bit of a downer-stressy day yesterday, and i think i let go some of that today, so i might actually fall asleep without needing my version of a benzodiazepine to do that.....i'll be mysterious and not explain.
i just sent 33 friends the picture of our little jumbee from the ultrasound from last week. i was trying to keep the list at bare minimum...people i totally want to share with and know would want to see it.....it came out to 33. oh floggin well. that is when i am making an effort to keep it small.
my bhabhi is showing now. Her OB said that the baby is long and has really long femurs....whaddup NBA!!??
the tip of my middle finger on my left hand is swollen and it feels like it wants to 3-2-1 liftoff from the rest of the finger. i guess it is a lupusy thing, but it has never manifested itself in this strange, fingertippy way. I find it weird. Or maybe my body is so sick of me being stressy that this fingertip has decided to secede and is trying to blast off, anywhere, away from me.
I do admire its attempts.
In other news, which may be bad, Dad got a catscan back of his thorax, and they zeroed in on the part in his back that is the pain that he presented with 2 months ago which started the whole, you have multiple myeloma, or pre myeloma, or MGUS with too many plasma cells, or you have nothing....yeah, so this pain has persisted, and the scan came back and showed this abnormal sclerosis, and i called from the library to check in with the fam, and he read out the report to me, and it is weird being the first line consultant , the person the fam turns to, at the very least to get a thumbs up or thumbs down about lab reports and the such, because part of me is like, oh, maybe i can be useful, and then part of me is like, what the hell do i know, i failed the bloody boards, don't ask me....and then part of me is holding my breath and saying, 'please don't say lytic lesions".....it is a lot, sometimes. So i don't quite understand what this means, except that they are going to send him to get a bone scan asap....and when an HMO doctor wants you to get something done stat, you know it cannot be that great, on some level, you know? So anyway, maybe we will find out something that will make them want to start treatment...who knows....any one up for a round of chemo?
arrggh.
Switching gears....I had a lovely dinner with my friend Patricia yesterday. She was killing me with her humor. She was telling me about her friend (a jew..Patricia is also a jew)...and this friend always gets hit on by german non-jews...and she ends up dating a lot of them....Patricia goes on to say that this is not an uncommon trend in her generation...she talked about the guilt ridden young Germans who seek out jews to date....anyway, so this friend of hers always gets approached and Patricia was giving me the example of her getting approached by this German guy, who tells her she is so exotic looking, and where is she from, and she says, oh, I am German...and then he is like, what??? And she qualifies it and says...I am jewish...and then this guy was like, oh, so do you have family there? and she'll be all, no you killed them all....except for my grandma, she escaped, that's why i am here.....
and then Patricia is like, I tell her, of course you look exotic...they killed off everyone else who looked like you....
anyway, i hope this is coming off even half as hilarious to you as it was to me....i hope it is not coming off as wack or cruel....i think the whole thing was bloody hilarious.
oh, and fyi, patricia is out having a beer with a german (non-jew) currently. let's just say Dipti is yenta-ing it up in her off time here at the Boalt School of Law....
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