I felt so sick this afternoon, so after finishing a couple big tasks, I left at three and headed home on the 3:45 ferry.
Brian picked me up. He brought me green tea in a travel mug.
I lay in bed as soon as I got home. Slept for a while, then woke up just after six and lay there feeling sicker and sicker. Just awful stomach pains and cramps. I also had a low fever.
As an aside, I am pretty sure I have gallstones and need gall bladder surgery. So I wondered if this was the big one, if my appointment for march 11 would just not be in time and we would have to go to the ER tonight.
It went on and on. I hadn’t eaten anything since noon, about eight hours earlier. I took a shower and washed my hair. Finally I sighed and told Brian maybe we should just go to the hospital.
Then, after brushing my teeth, I got that special feeling you get when you know you’re going to barf. And I did. A lot. Violently. It was of course wretched. I kneeled there spitting into the toilet for a while, looking down at the mostly digested contents of my lunch.
I am never ever going to that deli on Yale again, btw.
I cleaned myself up and told Brian I was going to chill and see if this was what I needed, if it was just “mild” food poisoning. He went to the store and got me some ginger tea. I talked to my friend Sean on the phone (he had his gall bladder out recently).
Anyway, I still feel a little bad, but nothing like how I felt before. I can still feel the gall bladder twinging just below my right ribcage. I sorta dread the fact that I’ll have to be operated on for that. But not tonight. We’re buying a house tomorrow. I can’t be in the hospital tomorrow.
I hope you can get in to the doctor soon.
Oh jeez, reading this made feel so badly for you… I hope with daybreak there is even more relief and you feel less ill. My mother has also had that surgery…. Right now I just hope you are feeling better and that you enjoy the last stretch in buying your house!
You poor thing. There’s a terrible stomach virus going around. Hope you feel better and congratulations on the house.
i hope you are doing okay! my mom also recently had her gall bladder out and of course waiting until she’d been hospitalized all day to call and tell me she was there…she’s crazy!
anyway, good luck with everything, house and health both!
yikes. feel better!
our stupid sellers are suddenly getting cold feet. they didn’t realize that when you put your house on the market you might have to move, like, soon. x your fingers
ugh that sucks. In a book I read, those are called “fake sellers.”
What are you guys doing about it?
we’re gonna sit tight until tomorrrow ’cause the guy wants to sleep on it and hopefully their agent will talk some sense into him. They offered to ‘let’ us rent them the place for a few months but we have no interest in that at all.
I can understand being surprised that it happened so quickly but again, why put it on the market if you’re not ready? we put our earnest money down and they agreed to a price. dumbasses.
God. As if. And what are you supposed to do, pay the mortgage plus the rent on your current apartments? Fuck that shit, unless they would like to pay for it all.
Oh and if their agent hasn’t told them already? All this shit goes on the record of the property’s sale, so if they DO back out, the next people who express an interest will be able to see this tomfoolery on the record (that an offer was made, that escrow was attempted, etc) and will probably become far less interested in dealing with these sellers.
from our agent when I asked him what their agent said:
“I’m sure he is frustrated. His sellers didn’t expect things to happen so quickly and they are faced with a quicker decision than they thought. Tod reassured me that they do want to sell and it’s just a matter of them processing it overnight. They are not only trying to figure out what place to purchase but also what neighborhood. They are considering several different suburbs. The real problem is that they need to narrow down their options.
I’ll keep you posted. Hang in there!! We’ll figure this out.
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omg. they are really dragging their feet! They put their house up for sale and haven’t even picked a neighborhood yet???
so basically they don’t want to be homeless. isn’t it a buyers market? They need to get on it and pick a house. They can’t buy anything anyway until they have the money from you guys!
what were you asking for in terms of a closing date? one month from now? that’s standard I think.
we did all our signing today and we get keys (!!!!!!) on Friday.
60 days! End of April. So they could/should just put their shit in storage and rent a place if they’re dragging their feet.
Congrats to you!!!