Monday, December 14, 2009

Nervous Nellie

What is this feeling? The fluttery stomach, the headache pushing at the back of my eyes, the need to pace??

Oh, nerves. Right.

I don't feel this way very often. Mostly because I don't like it. But today my daughter is getting surgery so the nerves are coming whether I want them to or not. I'm sure everything will go well, there really is no reason to worry. And hopefully as I keep telling myself that, my nerves will get the boot.

Hopefully.

A couple of other things that get the ol' palms sweaty are the idea of failure and spiders. What makes you nervous?

9 comments:

  1. Praying for your daughter and for you!!

    Things that make me nervous? Heights. I totallky freak out with heights.

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  2. Same here, with the prayers! I'd appreciate the same tomorrow when my baby has the tubes put in his ears (also minor, but still worrisome).

    I wish I wasn't as nervous a person as I am, but I have improved over the years. Still, anything outside my comfort zone makes me nervous to some degree, especially trying something physically adventurous, because I have had so many embarassing moments/disastrous results whenever I've tried new things.

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  3. Strangely enough, both my grandma and my Mom have the first name Nellie. Maybe that's why I'm a mess. :)

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  4. It's possible, Linda...but your name is Linda, so how does that work?

    My most obvious phobias are a fear of sharks and heights. It would be interesting to find out if I have more, but I don't have the time.

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  5. Hope everything went well with the surgery. Ditto on the prayers and all that.

    I don't have a ton of fears.
    My top one is enough: the dark. yep that's right I'm afraid of the dark and all things that creep, crawl, bang, bump, fly and live in it.

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  6. Thanks, everyone, for your thoughts and prayers. The surgery went well, although the doctor got double booked and I was at the hospital for seven hours.

    Good luck with the tubes tomorrow, Linda. I had two kids with tubes, so I know how that goes.

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  7. So glad to hear everything went well (no pun intended).

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  8. Great everything went well--Linda let us know too.

    My nerves are: election time. My heart problems were directly linked to the anxiety I felt over the mayoral race.

    Dark and heights. I can do mountain heights no problem. Its being in tall poorly built buidlings (the Stratasphere) or strings or parachutes.

    The dark terrifies me. I once put myself into hysterics on night at girls camp when my battery died and I had to walk 1/4 mile in the dark forrest. (Arizona forest, not Seattle forest--there is a difference and it'll make you see how weak I am. A Seattle forest is truly terrifing, but Arizona--weak!)

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