Congratulations, It's Snakes.
On Sunday night, I dreamt that I was wandering through the woods with four other women, and we were all of us hugely pregnant. Only one of the women in our party was expecting humans: she was having quadruplets, had just birthed two, and decided to hang onto the other two for a little while longer. Another woman was expecting a turtle. And I knew that according to the Ultrasound, I was bearing snakes.
All the other women were envious and kept remarking on how I would have the easiest delivery, but I wasn't so sure snakes were what I wanted. I'm not really a reptile person. Would I be able to bond with the snakes? I had a dim awareness that something wasn't right in this cross-species scenario, but I couldn't put my finger on what it was.
You can imagine my relief when I woke to discover there were no snakes, and that I had simply caught Olive's noxious, 5-day GI virus, complete with...all that entails. Entrails?
Naturally, I was the model patient: a brave little solider, really. I sipped my ginger ale quietly and put no one out.
I hope the brave little soldier is doing much better.My love to you and the two wonderful nurses who helped you at home;Sabina and L.B.
Posted by: Irma Perlman | June 19, 2008 at 10:39 AM
Feel better you! And I personally would have been freaking out in that dream if I was supposed to birth snakes. FREAKING RIGHT OUT.
Posted by: Larue | June 19, 2008 at 01:52 PM
Bless your heart. Be sure to buy new toothbrushes or sterilize the ones you have, sometimes the virus will live on in the brush and will re-infect you.
Posted by: Heather E | June 19, 2008 at 04:44 PM
Wonderful to come across your blog. I'm a knitter, living outside of Chicago and I have a wonderful 10 year old son with autism. Thanks for the blog!
Posted by: Therese | June 19, 2008 at 05:19 PM
Interesting.
Veeerrry interesting.
Hope you and yours are feeling better!
Posted by: SarahO | June 20, 2008 at 03:09 PM
Hope you're feeling better.
Posted by: Debbie | June 20, 2008 at 05:31 PM
I have dreams about snakes on occasion, but in the I am not nearly as calm as you! And they're not usually prompted by being sick - just seeing a snake on tv or something will do it.
Feeling better, I trust?
Posted by: Rebekah | June 21, 2008 at 02:31 PM
Who dreams about snakes? And pregnant with them? I think Dr Crane needs to weed this one out. :-)
Feel better soon!
Posted by: Jus Shar Designs | June 21, 2008 at 06:41 PM
Ugh - I hope you feel better Jen!
Posted by: Helena | June 21, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Well, having a litter of snakes (a clutch? a herd? a flock?) in the house would certainly take care of any mouse problem ;-)
Posted by: kmkat | June 24, 2008 at 12:51 PM