At what point did my life become a WB teen drama? The past few days have been like a scene taken from a script.
I felt so embarrassed after yesterday. I slept horribly last night. I couldn't stop thinking about Josh and how he must have thought I was an idiot. I so wanted to call out sick on Thursday, but I couldn't...the kids were counting on me and the play is next Friday.
Yesterday morning three of my girls got promoted in their swimming lessons. Josh is now their teacher. Swimming lesson time was not fun. I didn't feel like talking to him, yet he was the one who just happened to be testing my girls to see what progress they were making. I had to help him with the testing. It was awkward and I was in a grumpy mood.
When swimming was over Lauren asked me if I was okay. She told me that Josh was relieved that he didn't have to go on the dinner cruise with Wendy, but it didn't really make me feel any better.
When camp was over I wanted to hightail it out of there, but I got cornered outside of the swim club by Wendy. That girl is perhaps the most mean spirited, nasty human being I have ever come in contact with. She started telling me off. I tried to walk past her but she kept getting up in my face. She must have been pretty loud because she started drawing attention to us. One of the lifeguards, Terry, came running out of the office to see what the commotion was. He told Wendy to back off but she pushed me and I fell back into a tree.
This is where I start to forget what happened. Apparently when I fell back, I disrupted a bees nest and the bees were not taking it lightly. A swarm of bees came at me and started stinging me. Terry told me to run and jump in the pool, but I was so far away from the pool.
My snack bar co-worker, Betsy, heard the commotion and came running out the back door of the snack bar, and started trying to swat the bees away. She got stung too. Terry turned on a hose and ended up hosing us down.
I don't remember much of it because I suddenly felt really nauseous and thought I was going to start throwing up. At some point Henry and Josh came out because I remember Henry telling Terry to call 911. Josh was sitting beside me and I was scared but I knew that I'd be okay because he'd take care of me. He kept asking me if I had bee sting allergies. I told him that I've been stung many times before and never had any problems (at least I think that's what I told him). I really only remember saying, "I don't feel so good."
Terry came back with the camp nurse and said that an ambulance was on the way. I told them I didn't need it. For some reason I thought I was going to be fine so I tried to stand up to prove it to them and suddenly felt really weak and nauseous. The nurse made me sit down and started asking me questions about if I was allergic, what my symptoms where. She had medicine and an epi-pen but she didn't use them. I'm not even sure if I answered her questions right. I don't think I was making much sense.
The next thing I knew I was in the ambulance and they were taking me to the hospital. They gave me a shot - not sure if it was an epi-pen. It's all such a haze and I know at lot of things happened that I don't really recall.
I started to feel better once at the hospital and they had run tests, etc. The doctor said that I didn't have an allergic reaction, I had just had a reaction to having so much venom in my system at one time. He said that my symptoms would have been different if I had gone into anaphylactic shock.
Aunt Lu came in to see me and chided me for giving her a scare. She told me that Josh was outside and wanted to see me.
She left and he came in. He asked me how I was feeling. I asked him if he was mad at me. He looked confused and sad no. I started to tell him I was sorry about the auction but he shhh-ed me and told me not to worry about that.
I couldn't help it though, I kept going on about how I shouldn't have bid and that I felt like and idiot, and if he really wanted me to rescind the bid I would. He was like, "Are you kidding? And leave me stranded with Wendy? No way. You're stuck with me."
He handles things so well, because it made us both laugh and really broke the ice. He asked me what set Wendy off and I told him that it was about the auction. I told him it was pretty obvious that she liked him, and he rolled his eyes and said she was obnoxious.
I asked him one last time if he was sure about us going on the dinner cruise. He nodded and said that he didn't want me to rescind the bid and that he knew I had never seen the New York City skyline and he wanted to be there with me when I did. It was really sweet.
The doctor came in then with Aunt Lu and said that I could get ready to leave. Aunt Lu brought dry clothes for me to change into. The three of them left the room for me to change out of the hospital gown. I went into the bathroom and almost had a heart attack when I saw myself in the mirror. I had eye makeup all over my face. My hair was stringy and a mess. I looked like a drowned rat!
I managed to clean up somewhat before walking out. Josh hung around while we checked out and then asked Aunt Lu if he could drive me home. On the ride home he told me that Betsy had been stung twice but she was okay. He also told me that Henry fired Wendy and told her not to return to the club under any circumstances. Yikes! Apparently, Terry told her that he had seen Wendy push me into the bees nest.
When we got home Molly was waiting for me on the front porch. She had heard what happened and wanted to see how I was. Aunt Lu wouldn't let me talk for long because she said I needed to rest.
So that was my day of drama.
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