Insomnia

I'd get a lot more sleep if I didn't insist on reading the entire Internet every night.

Its 4:27 a.m., and I can't sleep. I don't know why, I guess I'm kind of ramped up over this whole holiday season. Or maybe because I had to have a second MRI done late last night because they didn't do it right three days ago.

I guess everyone makes mistakes, and I really know nothing about radiology, but I'm thinking you figure out what body part requires the photo shoot, give some instructions to the patient, like "Hold still!", put some headphones with some ridiculous music blaring, line up the shot and take a half hour nap.

Seriously, the surgeon who will be working on my knee next Friday was speechless when he saw the work that was not only done by the technician, but signed off by the radiologist.

So, back to the hospital, where the registrar insisted that my insurance must be billed again. At my insistence, she finally woke up the administrator, who told her they were not going to bill the insurance company again. She hangs up the phone and behaves as if I'm part of some conspiracy to rip off the hospital.

Nah, its most likely the holidays. See, after the hospital, my wife wanted to go Christmas shopping, and we hadn't had dinner yet, so two hours later, we're white knuckling it through the freeway in a blizzard, trying to get home. Obviously, we made it. Then we tried to find "Die Hard", a great Christmas movie on Dish Network, but it's not even in their pay per view lineup. So, we end up watching "While You Were Sleeping" and an old episode of NCIS. We really did have fun.

Then I watched the news, which was all about the gay marriages that took place in Utah today, along with everyone's opinion on the matter. I swear, they even interviewed a boy scout, who kept saying, "What?" Well, maybe I got my stories mixed up, but I swear, that's what I thought happened.

Now I'm watching the CBS Morning News, where Christmas Shopping, weather and Phil Robertson are the most popular stories. Really? A redneck reality show star, who is also a fundamentalist preacher is opposed to the gay lifestyle? There were people surprised by this? A&E was surprised by this? Are you kidding me? Now it's a big deal, Phil has been kicked off the show and the rest of the family is threatening to quit.

The world has obviously gone mad. Or am I dreaming this whole thing?

I just read what I wrote and I'm convinced that I must be on LSD.

See you tomorrow.