Birthday Flu

Well, it’s my birthday and I’ve got a temperature of 100.6. (About 20 minutes ago it was 101.2.) I feel all achy and tired and chilly. Matt and I were going to go out for birthday dinner with my parents tonight, but instead we’re putting it off.

Bleah.

This isn’t my worst birthday, though. My worst birthday was my 17th, when my family was on vacation in Thailand — Phuket, actually, which was ravaged by tsunamis yesterday. I was in a swimming pool and as I was getting out, I somehow gouged out a chunk of skin from my left big toe. We went back up to our hotel room and it bled and bled and bled before finally stopping. I’ve got a scar on my left big toe to this day.

And at least I’m not in Phuket now. I can’t imagine what it must be like in southeast Asia right now.

Anyway — I’ll live to fight another day…

Happy Birthday to Me.

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  2. Happy Birthday! I’ll do you one better, 4 years ago (before we met) my partner was on the west coast for his birthday and began suffering severe abdominal pain. It turned out to be appendicitis. He had to go in for emergency surgery that day…which resulted in an 8-day stay at the hospital! Ugh.

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