what procedure?

have this abdominal pain on and off since about a year ago. treated the symptoms, ignored the etiology. at last, i had the chance to ask my pcp about it, then confirmed by ultrasound of my belly, i needed a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. a procedure i am familiar with, encountered all the time at work. but the main difference this time is, i will be the one having the procedure. that is the main difference. no biggie, just needed to be done.

not so ordinary night

just got out of the shower, ( i'm a night person, fyi, so i am awake at night and do almost all my chores at night when i'm off) at around 0230am central time, i told nikki to stop playing and she and her friend need to go to sleep at this time of the hour. nevertheless, because a friend is sleeping over at our house and it was a friday night, she decided to still play until....i heard her crying at the top of her voice ( as in really shouting, her uvula vibrating her voice trembling) "mommy! mommy! my hand, my hand! (that's what i thought i heard while changing in the closet). to my surprise, she was bleeding from her forehead. i did not have anything in hand except my towel still wrapped around me, just to stop the bleeding, i then took her head and pushed her bleeding forehead to my towel...then my nervous husband, seeing her daughter bleeding, followed my instructions deligently to get a cloth which i then used to press on nikki's forehead and assessed the laceration. it was about 5cm in length and 3cm deep. thus, we ran to ED and have her laceration stitched up. as i was assessing the laceration, i was thinking i could make an improvised steri-stip, but made my better nursing judgement that my daughter needed stitches on that laceration. we waited for almost 2hrs and a half in ED just for the stitches to be done. anyway, it was a different night for my 9 yr. old....for my husband as well....and for me as a mom.

best friend, true friend

is there any difference at all? I have to say I want to brag about my best true friend. She may not know it, but she had remained in my heart even if we were out of touch for awhile. But we both know that we are still connected to each other. We both know it since we were both in high school. Amongst all the friends I have encountered, there is no other that can be in my best true friend's place. Our friendship can be describe as wine, the older it gets, the better.