In one hour I will be taking my first ever Chief’s exam.
It would figure that last night I had a migraine that kept me up late and had me to that point where I couldn’t keep it together emotionally because it hurt so bad and was ready to get in the car and drive myself to the hospital to get a shot, except that it hurt so bad that I couldn’t move from the position I was in to get in the car.
Fortunately when I woke up at 2:30am, the medicine (6 ibuprofen) had finally had some effect and it had subsided enough that I didn’t need to go in.
Not as fortunately, the reason I woke up at 2:30am was because Anja was crying. Not just crying, wailing, the kind of wail that isn’t the infrequent yet somewhat expected cry from being sent back to her own bed. I could tell something was wrong.
She came back to our bed and we asked her what was wrong and she said that her ear hurt really, really bad. And that it felt “spicy” inside. I love the descriptions that Anja comes up with for things because they’re so random and yet they make sense.
I gave her some Tylenol and tried to get her back to sleep with us but she couldn’t because her ear hurt so bad, so finally at 3:00am, B took her to the doctor.
I couldn’t fall back asleep after that so I was up til about 3:45, and my alarm went off at 6, and now it’s time for me to shower and get dressed and go take the biggest advancement exam of my career thus far. The one that I haven’t studied for and forgot I even had until 3:00 yesterday afternoon.
Wish me luck.
