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Balance

Not the usual kind of 'balance' we mommy lawyers write about. Karmic balance. Take for example, my friend. She found out she passed the bar exam and character & fitness, so she decided to hit a casino and walked away several hundred dollars richer. Winning streak ended when she broke a bone the next day playing a pick up game of basketball.

I have had a similarly good streak: I also passed the bar exam and character & fitness; I have a great job this year and a great job lined up for next year and I am pretty damn happy about that; I had a birthday last week and have an anniversary this weekend; and my son and husband are awesome.

So where's the balance?

I planned to have a Columbus Day like Magic Cookie's. Instead I ended up in the emergency room. Ridiculous pain in my back from an unknown source, unable to keep down food or pain medicine, etc. My only really good local friend and fellow mommy took Clownfish while I drove myself to the hospital at seven in the morning after two hours or so of suffering with pain and fear and nausea. Diagnosis: kidney stones. Same age my dad was when he got his first. Doc told me to stop drinking tea. I drink tea like its my job -- iced tea, hot tea, green tea, black tea. It is my go to beverage. I am completely fine, lucky, it could have been worse, etc. But no tea plus crazy pain?

I think balance has been restored.

Full post as published by Butterflyfish on October 17, 2009 (boomark / email).