Sassy Mama: Smudgemama is sick, sick, sick

Okay, so I'm like, really, really sick. Thought it was just a womanly-bladder-infection type issue but apparently now that my kidneys are making themselves known, I think we can say that it is at least a UTI (urinary tract infection). Already went to the doctor...got the meds...just not a clear diagnosis yet. And my head hurts and I'm dizzy. I mean really, really dizzy. Driving on over to my local HMO I was already panicking. That happens when the road in front of you reminds you of ocean waves, or at least that is what your head is interpreting them as. Anyway....I kept remembering my German teacher in high school saying, "Fritz ist kaputt." See, this was a question and answer session with our teacher in which we had to ask him questions in German. Someone must have queried if he had a dog (sorry, I'd write that in German but all I can come up with is "haben hund" and I'm not even sure that part is right.) Anyway, he had answered that no, they didn't have a dog, but they used to and his name was Fritz, but Fritz had died. So Fritz was kaputt. Alright. So this is going through my head on the drive over there and around the same time I notice that my "check engine" light is on and right at about that time my cell phone made it's last plaintive bleep-bleeps to let me know that it had, indeed, had it and it was giving it all up and shutting itself off. And I started to realize that these were all metaphors for my life.....check engine, low battery, Fritz is kaputt.

But before I posted about Fritz being kaputt and all, I wanted to make sure that "kaputt" was the word for "dead" in German. I wasn't very thorough and only consulted one online dictionary but it didn't list dead. It listed many other words that might as well mean dead, so I'll take Mr. Pittner's word for it and assume that dead is another of the many meanings "kaputt" lays claim too. However, I have to say one defintion in particular stands out as a clear description of my life at the most present time. Click the link above and I'll just about bet it all that you will guess the correct definition.