A Night at the Hospital (or a Break from JCrew)

You might have noticed that I didn't post anything yesterday. I know that it seems a really lame excuse for not posting, but I spent Sunday night through Monday morning at the ER.

Sunday morning I was playing in bed with my daughter when I hit my head pretty badly against the bedside table, which is made in cast iron. Then I kind of forgot about it, but in the evening I started to have all these scary symptoms (headache, blurred vision, dizziness). To be honest up to two weeks ago I wouldn't have considered going to the ER for, basically, a headache but after the Natasha Richardson's tragic death it would have been foolish to ignore them (I am no hypocondriac, I rarely go to the doctor and this was my first visit to the ER in my entire life, for myself I mean), so I decided to go.

So after three hours in the waiting room and another six hours on a stretcher, they finally gave me a CT scan and it turned out that nothing was going on in my brain (well, apart from the usual things) and the bump in my head and the dizziness were unrelated. But spending a whole night alone (my husband had to stay home with my daughter) at the ER thinking that you might even die helps to put things in perspective. While I was laying alone in the stretcher with all these whining people around me, the only things I could think of were my daughter, my husband and my parents (but especially my daughter) and JCrew didn't cross my mind for a moment (normal, you will say, but I can't help thinking of that other time when I was on a very turbulent flight and all I was capable to think of was that I wouldn't live long enough to see the season finale of Six Feet Under, my favorite show. Maybe is because I wasn't really thinking that I was going to bite the dust that time. Or maybe is because I was still childless).

So, I don't want to give lessons and say that we should all stop shopping and waisting our time on silly things like shoes and tees but really, if you don't get that JCrew jacket or tank is not THAT important.

And now, back to JCrew!