Ok. Weird.
For those of you that came over and were requested to enter a password to read this?
I dunno.
Somehow it was marked "Private".
I dunno.
Thanks to those of you that emailed and said "What the Heck?" LOL
So, here it is. The big, secret post.
Disappointment will be waiting at the end.
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Well, three hours in the ER and lots of wonderful prescriptions later, I'm not so itchy.Let me just say, that Prednisone and Pepcid ROCK MY WORLD!
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Here is a recipe I won't be posting on Favorite Ingredient Friday:Basic OompaLoompa Itchy Twitchy Shake
1 humanoide type person (no AI allowed, must be 100% human)
1200 ml Clindimicin a day
1000 ml Vancomicin a day
1000ml Gentomicin a day
Combine first three ingredients, stir well and repeat for 10 days.
By day 7, the human form should be covered in hives and dancing the itchy itchy dance.
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The Duh! moment came when the ER doctor says "I think you may be sensitive to high levels of the 'micin' family of drugs".
Your mama must be proud, son. Oh, yes. That was $500,00 in student loans is paying off now.
But, that's ok. I caught up on several episodes of Design on a Dime and Iron Chef while I sat there. So, it's all good. Thank you Blue Cross.
I can't say the vending machines faired well. The kids get all excited when mommy has to go to the ER. They clean out their change and hop up on all manner of sugar and slop while they're in the waiting room.
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In other news, I thought this was interesting. It's a whole new take on 'what women will do to be beautiful'.
Thursday , August 30, 2007
By Catherine Donaldson-Evans
Mrs. Tennessee was bitten by a rattlesnake on the way to rehearsals for the Mrs. America pageant — and was treated on the scene by one of her competitors for the crown, registered nurse Mrs. Idaho, according to The Tennessean newspaper.
Christina Ryan, 28, was leaving a breakfast Sunday at the Loews Ventana Canyon Hotel in Tucson, Ariz., when the wily serpent — coiled at the bottom of some concrete steps — struck, biting her on the foot.
Luckily, Mrs. Idaho — registered nurse Lauralyn Salinas, 37 — was with her and was able to extract the snake’s fang from Ryan’s skin, The Tennessean reported.
“I guess he bit me and let go,” Ryan told the paper. “I ran up the stairs and became totally hysterical … It hurt worse than childbirth.”
Paramedics were on the scene in less than five minutes, according to The Tennessean.
Ryan, an event planner with an 18-month-old daughter, spent the night in the intensive care unit at Tuscon Medical Center, where she received about 10 vials of anti-venom medication and was watched closely, the newspaper reported.
She was recovering back at the hotel Monday.
"I'll just go back and do as much as I can and as often as I can with the contestants. I just have a swollen foot and anti-venom in me,” Ryan said.
The beauty queen apparently didn’t see the rattler because it was coiled at the foot of the stairs and blended in with the concrete.
The whole ordeal threw a wrench into preparations for the Mrs. America show.
"Rehearsal was postponed due to Mrs. Tennessee getting struck by a rattlesnake," wrote Salinas, Mrs. Idaho, on her blog on Sunday. "It was right by the entrance to our rehearsal. She is going to be fine, but was taken to the hospital just to be sure. Very Scary! Rehearsal will be a different location today. Our thoughts are with her for a quick recovery."
As for whether the snake was planted there in a “Miss Congeniality” sort of plot to rig the upcoming pageant — which unlike Miss America is for married women — the executive director of the Mrs. Tennessee America Pageant said she didn’t think that was the case.
"I would certainly hope not," Delayna Bridges told the newspaper, laughing. "Mrs. Arizona won Mrs. America last year, so, hopefully, they are feeling pretty happy right now and not feeling the need to sabotage our girl."
The pageant airs from Tuscon at 8 p.m. Sept. 21 and is co-hosted by TV and Broadway star Alan Thicke and by fired "Apprentice" contestant Omarosa Stallworth.
Think Mrs. Idaho might reconsider her talent portion for this year's competition?
I can see it now.
"And now, MRS IDAHO! Give her a hand"
(applause)
"As you can see, I'm holding a live rattlesnake. Now, I just need a volunteer from the audience."
"anyone? ....... anyone?......."
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And in a segue to our own snake news, we saw something that was identical to a 4 foot rattlesnake on our front porch as we ran out to go to the ER.
Only thing is, it had no rattle-thingie. And it's tail was intact, not like someone had hacked off the tip.
So, I don't know what is was.
Anyone has any ideas?
Cause, I ain't going out at night until we've identified that monster.
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