Bad night of sleep! Planned on waking up early for H1N1 shots for me and two kids, and had dreams about it. I dreamt that I asked for the shot, they gave me grief about it, and I told them that I have an autoimmune disease (AS), and the nurse huffed off to tell the doctor, and the doctor marched right up to my face and gave me a shot right on the lip in a defiant manner. The real reason I got one is because my husband Paul hasn't been doing so well since his pulmonary embolisms, so I don't want to bring any illness into the home. His liver isn't functioning, and that makes his coumadin not work so they've upped that prescription twice, and he's on lovenox and has been for 19 days, which is a dangerous drug. He's not feeling so hot and is nervous so I got the shot for him :) Anyway, woke up at 4:30 am, packed up my two younger kids, not sure of the weather so packed a tent, three sleeping bags, a chair, food, coats, gloves, hats, food, and a change of clothes (I went in running clothes/tights, like a big moron). We arrived at 5:15am. I checked the three doors I knew of into the building and they said as of Monday night they had unexpectedly run out, but both the county website and telephone line had said there was a clinic that opened at 8am, so I didn't know what to do. I couldn't see anyone waiting in a line so that made me more nervous. I said a prayer, asking if I should stay until 8am to see what happened, and decided to motor over to McD's and get the kids breakfast and come back. I parked and the kids started eating then I decided to walk around the building, and I found the line! So we got in line by 5:45, about 30 people back (ballooned to about 100 ahead of us as the spouses and children arrived) but the line ended up extending around a couple of corners, so much larger behind us than ahead of us. I snuggled the kids in their clothes and sleeping bags and started walking. I walked up and down the block a gazillion times and logged 3 miles of walking, then they moved us inside and we waited in a hallway, and there I stretched, ate some breakfast, practiced spelling words with Mickie. Then the shot was funny because they told me to prepare my left arm and I realized I had a skin tight undershirt that wouldn't move, so I took off my shirt in front of the crowd, so not only am I the lady who is wearing spandex in public, and who walks back and forth, and stretches in public, but I am also the lady who will disrobe to the sports bra in public as well. I later realized my pepper spray was also showing at that moment, but at the time I was just glad I have been doing my ab workouts. Later walked 1.6, then ran 4.4, then walked 3 more on the treadmill with Marion on the elliptical.
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