This past Wednesday I arrived at the hospital bright eyed and bushy tailed for yet another procedure. This procedure was painless, interesting and an earnest effort to define my new malady. The procedure? Just a Lumbar Puncture. The most exciting part of my Lumbar Puncture was the head rush I received when they made me sit up because apparently my spinal fluid dripped about as fast as molasses in winter while I was laying down.
Some of you may be wondering, "Is a Lumbar Pucnture the same as a Spinal Tap?"
In the medical world it is. Much the same as Bi-Polar and Manic Depressive are the same. The name has just been changed to, well, the only thing I can think of is to confuse us.
When a friend asked what "they" were doing to me next I replied "Lumbar Puncture." And, I explained what a Lumbar Puncture was. Naturally she said. "Oh you mean a Spinal Tap."
Then quite abruptly she laughed and laughed saying. "Can you imagine the band named Lumbar Puncture?"
She's right! Would the cult classic, the holiest of holies, Spinal Tap, become the legend it is today if they were named Lumbar Puncture? I think not.
Of course, once again, I started thinking. I wondered if I life would be the same if ny name was Frank, Bob or Jedidiah? Seriously, think about it. If you hear the name Wilbert you probably think pocket protector. How about Chip, Chris and Kip? Yikes. [No offense guys]
So like a dog worrying a bone I've been wondering more than I should. If my name was something other than it is would I live somewhere else? Be married to someone else? Not have this disease? Wow.
Truth be told. I like my name and I wouldn't change it. But, I do wonder......
Talk to you later
I was supposed to be a Boy! In my mother's mind I was supposed to be a boy. I was first born, that means Boy, Right? So when her doctor said "Congratulations, you have a beautiful baby girl!" my 5'2" brown eyed Puerto Rican mother said, you made a mistake! I have a boy~! And again, the doctor said, "Um no Mam, you have a girl, she has a lot of hair, all 10 fingers and toes and very healthy!" Mom said "What am I going to do with a girl?". . . . . Doc replied. . . . "I'm sure you'll think of something, Congratulations!"
ReplyDeleteSo, moral of story, have I ever thought of how my life would have been if I had been that boy?? You bet! If I had been Vince instead of Julie (a name she only thought of and gave me that day, and of a girl she knew in school that she didn't even like) JULIE.... who later, did a little shop lifting, had sex to early, snuck out to go to parties, tried a few drugs, who, was abused by her boyfriend in high school and didn't go to college because of the experience she had in high school, who was rapped by her Uncle, who married a man she wasn't "in love" with but felt it was what she was supposed to do, only to later divorice this man because of the things he was doing to her that were totally unacceptable, to marry another man who promised to adopt her 2 beautiful girls only to have them totally dissapointed and to have her youngest daughter rapped by her step-brother...... and the circle goes on! SO>>>> If I had been that boy, that man, what would my life have been like?
I love my Girls!!! I can't imagine my life with out them. I would experience everything agian just for them. Nothing I have been threw compares to hearing the words, "I'm sorry to tell you this, but you have terminal cancer" I can not even imagine! I don't know what I would do. Then there is the knock at the door, police officer on the other side telling you your only daughter or your only son has been in an accident and died at the seen, how does a parent deal with that?! I went to a funeral last weekend of a an 18 year old who was friends with my children and I can't even imagine what his parents were thinking as they burried their only son and a week later are going threw now!
If I were a man now. . . . would I be emotional? would I be nosey? would I be full of questions and not as many answers? would I have a big family, the president of a company? would I make lots of money,be well traveled? would I have every thing I wanted in life, who knows???
Am I happy......Sometimes. Have I accomplished every thing I wanted to in my life, nope, not yet. Will I, not sure. does my husband love me? I think so. Is he passionate? nope. does he hold my hand? nope. does he make love to me? not since last year sometime........... Do I MISS it? I used to. Why am I telling you this? I don't really know. But I am.
"Spinal tap vs. Lumbar Puncture" your right, couldn't imagine it, and the music probably wouldn't be the same or as good!
I wish you the best, thank you for sharing when you do, I really enjoy it. If you don't now, hold your wifes hand, kiss her neck, tell her she is beautiful she will remember it and she will smile later!