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Yesterday one of our subs threw his regular "holiday lunch" with beers and pizza and sammiches. I'd been working pretty crazy hours -- we all had been, and everyone was intimating that we weren't coming back to the office and I should start preparing excuses for my family, various enforcement officials, the media etc.

Around 2:00 p.m. I had juuuuuuuust enough beer to have rendered myself utterly useless for the afternoon, and realized that my entire department had abandoned me. Got a lift back to the office and everyone's working away just like any other day. My northern Ontario cubemate with the cast iron liver rolled her eyes at my questioning look and said "Oh, they TALK BIG every year...." So anyway, now I'm that MUCH further behind.

Woke up in the middle of the night with dull pain right under my sternum that antacids wouldn't touch, and spent a festive hour on the intarweb reading about heart attack symptoms. I'm not presenting a single other symptom, though, so I'm assuming for the time being (until I drop dead, one supposes) that I've pulled a muscle in my chest wall.

Company party tonight. I am reliably informed by multiple sources that this event WILL be Full Contact. We shall see. What better way for Ms.'v to meet everyone I work with?

Date: 2006-12-09 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whyaduck.livejournal.com
Sounds like somebody's got a little gallstone in the oven...

just 35yrs old and the wheels are falling off

Date: 2006-12-09 08:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] haardvark.livejournal.com
....aaaaand my mom just arrived and posited that I have a hiatal hernia.
From: [identity profile] whyaduck.livejournal.com
Nah. You ate a lot of fatty foods then had pain in the upper abdomen - classic gall bladder. Mine felt like a stabbing in the back as well.
From: [identity profile] haardvark.livejournal.com
Did you have it out? I keep hearing a rumor that some folks can actually :shudder: change their diet...
From: [identity profile] whyaduck.livejournal.com
I had a few bad attacks some years back, was considering removal, but the attacks stopped. I still get the occasional twang but those I can live with.

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