Thermometer Crisis

For our travels this weekend, I dutifully packed my Basal Body Temp Thermometer, something that's quickly become my good friend. Each morning at 7 am, we bond, me listening to the steady beeping that leads to a reading, then getting up to possibly pee on a stick.

Saturday night, I noticed what looked like some crusty goo on the sensor end. I scraped off the goo and didn't think twice about it. My little pink friend was tough, a little goo scraping shouldn't have an impact.

Ha! Sunday morning, I awoke, turned it on and waited for the steady beeps. Nada. No beepage. I tried again like 3 times, but no dice. The initial beep, yes, but no proceeding steady beepage. It's dead, Jim.

Late last night we found ourselves first at Safeway, where I'm pretty sure the stockguy thought we were asking about a Basil thermometer and was wondering why you'd need that. No luck, so it was off to our corner Walgreen's, open 24 hours for your convenience and a hotbed of activity at any hour. They did have one, but it was the Walgreen's brand. It doesn't balance in my mouth as well, and it doesn't have the steady beep, just the beep at the end.

Let me assure you that if you're more than 1/2 asleep and you use that thing, the second beep can scare your temperature into rising in a heartbeep when it erupts from the silence that has lulled you almost back to sleep, despite the ill-balanced medical device in your mouth.

Sheesh. Stupid Walgreen's. Stupid me. Stupid goo.