Nightmares

Meg:  My room was not a hospital room at all, but the Estee Lauder cosmetics counter in a small department store in my hometown of Stockton, California.  The woman who was about to perform some sort of medical procedure on me looked exactly like Victoria, the project manager at the computer consulting firm I worked for, and I refused to let her do it.  She kept insisting she was a nurse, and I finally took her badge in my hand and took a look.  Sure enough, she wasn't Victoria.  (Much later, Cindy, my night nurse, told me that I grabbed her badge once and looked at it.)  I vaguely remember pulling my nasogastric feeding tube out by accident.  Then something else happened where one of the nurses messed up one of my catheters by mistake.  I'm not sure if this happened in real life.  All I know is I sort of went off on her.  This is where it started to get scary.  Somehow I ended up at a condo with Ken Griffey Jr., Hersey Hawkins and some other former Seattle area professional athletes and their young sons.  (Incidentally, these are athletes who have reputations for being nice guys.)  Initially, they were really friendly with me, then all of a sudden they turned on me and wanted to attack me.  I was horrified and somehow I got away.  I don't really know where I ended up.  But I do know, that the dream happened again, and this time, my friend and ex-neighbor, Rod Jones, who used to be a pro football player, and again, some other Sonics and Mariners were hanging out with me.  And again, they started out really friendly, then just turned on me, becoming really violent.  I started running and running, and I came upon a boat.  I ran to the boat, and went down under the deck of the boat and hid.  I was surprised to find another athlete's wife in hiding down there too.  She told me about the dark underbelly of the sports world and both of us were really scared.  At one point I decided to take a peek and see of any of the athletes were still around.  When I stuck my head up above the deck, I was on a boat back at the Estee Lauder cosmetic counter.  The boat was part of a nautical themed promotional, and the colors of the nautical theme were red, white and blue.  I know this doesn't sound very nightmarish, but I was really, really scared when those athletes came after me, because they tried to get really physically violent with me.