See? I told You I Was Sick!
Jan 10th, 2008 by davidmw
Whilst it is a myth that you must drink 8 cups of water a day for good health, nonetheless my beloved bride was admitted to the hospital last night for dehydration. She has been unwell for a few days and was even kind enough not to tell me that her epitaph should be “See? I told you I was sick!”
Today, then, they decided to keep her for another night.
Concerned about the dog who has been equally lethargic (though much less … uh … expressive?) of late, I ran him up to the vet. Turns out he, too, was dehydrated and got a bolus of water injected subcutaneously to keep him moist and some SuperDuper(tm) antibiotics to ensure he’d still be here when we got home from the hospital!
So I don’t care if it is a myth or not .. if you know me, I can only suggest that you find yourself 8 glasses of water. STAT!
PS - for the astute, my wife goes into giggle fits whenever I mention the place where sick people go to recuperate. Seems in Australia, we typically drop the ‘the’ from the word ‘hospital.’ So, she went to hospital. She is in hospital. I am about to go visit her in hospital. The articles above are bold in a desperate attempt to cause her not to laugh, risk drooling and death!
Very funny story.
So when are you going to come down with something? I think you should drinking eight glasses of water a day. Or Guinness would do.
Also, is “hospital” a verb in the Australian language? That seems to be the usage. Do you hospital people down under?
Not really verb per se - but perhaps more like a greek noun that may or may not take the article. I don’t know - it’s an Australian thing!
I’ve deferred coming down with something until I am insured again. I thought about a headache I once had whilst driving past Walgreens the other day and $20 disappeared from my wallet!