ranunculus

so, I'm in walmart last night on my many-errand trip in prep for otto's parents coming into town, and I found these beauties! they aren't very good pictures, I'm sure I'll take more this weekend. AND I'll be painting them. These might be my new favorite flower (okay, like tied for first with two other flowers, but whatever. ) their name means "little frog" in Latin, and their "flower meaning" is radiant charm. and I l-o-v-e them.

Also, antibiotics, ho! I'm trying another one now. I kind of freaked out yesterday afternoon because my brain wasn't working. The convo went like this:

nurse-type lady: your culture came back negative, no strep, no staph--
me: oh, good.
nurse-type lady: so I need a phone number for a pharmacy to call in your antibiotic.
me: it should be in my chart, it’s target brier creek.
nurse-type lady (rudely): well, ma’am, it’s not in here, so if you could just give me the number--
me (as politely as I can muster): well, I’m outside because I get very poor reception in the building (as you already know because you had to wait for me to come outside so I could hear you and if you’d just called my work number as indicated on my chart I could look up the pharmacy number for it) but if you want I could call you right back with the number. Are you sure it’s not in my chart? You’ve called in at least a dozen things for me.
nurse-type lady: silence…oh, here it is.
me: oh, good. Wait, hey, so, the culture came back negative?
nurse-type lady (annoyed): mmm-hmm.
me: So I don’t have any bacteria in my nose? (pause) Because if I don’t have bacteria then why are you giving me an antibiotic? I mean, aren’t those only supposed to be for infections? Do I not have a sinus infection.
nurse-type lady: All I know is your culture came back negative.
me: pause. pause-pause-pause. sniffle. pause. Um, oh…well, um, I assume Dr. S knows what he’s doing, so, um, call it in…and hopefully it will make me better...thanks.

riiiight.

I called my mom on the way home, and –duh!—it just means that I have a bacteria they didn’t test for. Yeesh. Brain. Not. Functioning. I’m not feeling much better yet, but I haven’t even been on them for a full day, so hopefully—HOPEFULLY—this weekend won’t be a nightmare. Because there’s this race thing and a family thing and yikes! Enjoy your Friday! And the flowers!