The hits just keep on coming, baby!

Well, I was in the hospital Thursday afternoon through last night. Earlier this week, I thought maybe I had a bladder infection, but I wasn't sure, because there wasn't much pain and the symptoms were VERY inconsistent. So, I thought I'd keep an eye on things and go to the doctor if it didn't get better. Symptoms did not worsen, but they were still there. So, after coming back from travel Tuesday and Wednesday, I scheduled a doctor's appt. for Thursday afternoon. Even the doctor said he wasn't totally sure, and gave me a prescription for antibiotics and a mandate to keep close watch on symptoms and call over the weekend if anything changed.

It didn't take the weekend. As we were at Kinko's faxing home-purchase info, my abdomen between my belly-button and ribs started really, really hurting. Instead of going to Walgreens to get my prescription, we went home and called the doc, who confirmed that, yes, it would probably be smart to hit the emergency room. So we did. After pressing on my belly, the only thing they could think was that it might be appendicitis, though it was strange that it wasn't a localized pain. They gave me meds and had me drink contrast to get a CAT scan. I felt better after the meds. But when the meds wore off, the pain was much, much worse, and this time it did feel localized to the right side. More meds knocked the pain down before the CAT scan.

CAT scan, however, came back clean. Even though my appendix felt tender (as did my bladder, by the way) when docs pressed on it, there was no inflammation that they could see. But, they made me "NPO" (no drink or food) and admitted me for observation. I ran a fever briefly after the CAT scan and threw up the contrast, which they said is pretty normal, honestly.

So, yesterday, I woke up and felt better...honestly, my arm with the IV hurt much, much more and was bruising up (and is still bruised), compared to my midsection. So, they checked my white blood cell count again, and it had gone down to 8 (compared to, I believe 15 the evening before), which is more normal. After a 30-hour full-on fast (no food or drink...not even water--just IV fluid), I was able to keep down the hospital's "clear liquid" dinner.

But they did say to keep tabs on everything and take it slow getting back into solid foods, just in case. So I've been trying to take it easy...I still have some remnant issues, but I don't think they're major as of now. We'll see how my body responds.

So, that's where that is...as of now, we are buying the house, if I didn't update that, despite the problems it has. We figure we can take care of those problems, as severe as they might be. So that's the good news of it all.

And today is my little cousin's "memorial" service in Texas...which obviously I did not go to.

Side note: Anyone know a reputable, though not super-expensive moving company? Email me if you do...I might go the movers route for this one, rather than "recruit" and "bribe" with the promise of pizza. We have heavier stuff than ever before. ;)

Anyway...
You know, house-hunting is INSANE.

So I said, "I WIN," right? Well, that was a bit premature. You'd be amazed at how much things can change in a couple days. In short:

--I WIN.
--What?! They won't let us have a home inspection?
--Oh, they don't want us to dock them for repairs at this price?
--OK, we'll add a thing to the contract saying we won't change the price?
--What?! They won't sign THAT contact either?
--Fuck them, we're moving on. See you in six months, when you're still on the market.
--What, Mr. Realtor? You stayed up all night thinking about how this was wrong?
--So we should take to our laywer and find out what's what?
--Oh, so it's OK to add an "as is" rider to the contract, but we can still back out if the home inspection reveals major problems?
--Let's do it. We're comfortable with that.
--What?! Now they're saying to just rewrite the offer sheet with the new price and they'll sign it?
--OK. So we've come full circle...to the basic, standard contract. Great waste of time.

Suffice to say, they've still not signed/initialed the new contract. So I'm not saying anything until I SEE that signed contract and we have the home inspection tomorrow.

Hopefully all will go well with it, and we can take this house away from these people...they don't deserve it. Their realtor is either stupid or insane. And they're in the freakin' clouds with their assessment of this property's value.

So they don't deserve it. And we do. :)