Oh my, I have had quite a trying two days since my last update! Yesterday, my glorious, wonderful stomach I love so much decided it was going to hate me for everything I have put it through the past week and half. (OY!) So that plus a terrible rain storm kept me up all night! I have seriously not been afraid of a storm in a long time, and this one made me very nervous. It kept blowing my window open! I found out when I woke up the next day that it had blown open our living room windows and it was filled with water! Teresa (new host mom) was sweeping the water into a bucket. (OY!)
So I attempted to go to work but with my stomach being the way it was, I only lasted an hour before I had to leave. I came home and just crashed. I had the wonderful parental units call my trusted doctor while I lay in bed pitifully. (OY!) I get the name of a medicine and head to the pharmacy to try to see if I need a prescription or not. I get there, tell them the name of the medicine. I even spell if for them and they have no idea what I am talking about. I call home and have my mom look up alternate names and such that I could try with the pharmacists. I sat there for 30 minutes while they just stared at me. I got a few other names from my mom and showed them to the wonderful pharmacists who think I am just a sad little sick American. At that moment she says, OH! we have that! It was the exact medicine I asked for initially, even spelled the same way! (OY!) But I was just glad to have it!
I also met my German house mate that day. It was a nice awkward, “Nice to meet you, excuse me while I run to the bathroom” moment. (OY!)
Today, with the medicine, I was feeling much better. I still felt very weak because I didn’t eat yesterday, but better. I managed to get to work and even successfully made it to my lunch break. (YAY!) On my way back in, it sounded like it was raining in the elevator shaft around me. (For anyone who lived in Towers with me, they know what its like to have rain in the elevator! oy.) So I tell my boss who freaks out a little and calls downstairs. Not ten minutes later, water starts POURING out of the light fixture in the bathroom, and dripping from the bathroom door frame, 3 places in the meeting room, inside the closet with all of our electronics boxes and from the balcony above. (OY!!!!) We ran around like crazy putting buckets and trash cans under the water while shutting down and unplugging all electronics. I was trying so hard not to laugh while everyone looked very stressed. We sat there for another hour or so waiting to see if it would stop or someone would come fix it. I ended up getting to leave early, but have to go in an hour early tomorrow! (OY!)
I need a break from all this craziness!!! I get out of a crazy lady’s house to have a crazy stomach and rain in my office building?!?! OY!!!
