I think I'm ill ...... maybe .....

[catalyst2]

Went to Perth today and



walked around for hours, being the general beast of burden for everybody's shopping bags. About two or three hours in, we stopped for a rest. When I sat down, my fingers were so sore that I looked closely at them. They were deep bluish and the tips had even turned purple. We stared walking again but my fingers didn't improve in colour no matter what I did or how often I swapped the load around. In fact, they just got darker and it started to spread to the fingers on my other hand. Peripheral circulatory damage? Flesh-eating bacteria? I kept going, wilfully manning my way through the increasing tide of panic.

We bought a bit more (and I carried a few more bags, of course) and now the rest of my fingers started to turn yellowish. Hepatitis? It was a very serious variety because the yellow spread alarmingly fast up my fingers almost into the palms. I felt a bit clammy and hot but then I was carrying a large number of bags and we had been walking for about 5 hours by now.

Eventually I asked everybody for a rest stop - and I never ever ever do that so everybody looked at me quite concerned. I was just about to ask TSB to take me to the hospital when I looked very closely at my hands and the load I was carrying. There was a large purple bag ..... with a blue logo ..... along with a paper bag with a bright orange logo ..... D'oh!

I pretended I had a stone in my shoe and then we carried on!

Comments

[tijnat.livejournal.com]

After five hours of walking around carrying bags, you deserved a rest. Uggh! Even two hours of shopping - unless it's Christmas and I have money to spend and a list of what I want/need to buy - is too much for me.