I am surrounded by sick people! Alex is sick, John is sick (both colds / cough) and my mother apparently has some mutant kidney stone she has to have zapped tomorrow to hopefully break it up into itty bitty pieces so they will pass. Grandma and I seem to be the only healthy ones around here.
I feel more anxious about my mom's procedure tomorrow than perhaps I ought to be. I mean, it's a relatively routine procedure, but it's a pretty big deal none the less. It could be that for the last two days I've heard Grandma calling all of our relatives to tell them what's going on with my mom. With each new person she talked to the news seemed to get more and more dramatic:
"Barb's got a kidney stone"
"Barb's got a kidney stone and it's too big to pass"
"Barb's got a kidney stone and it's the biggest one they've ever seen"
"Barb's got a serious medical condition and she could loose her kidney and DIE"*
*Ok, she didn't say that (exactly), but you get the point.
It seems like it's just one frustratingly bad thing after another in Mom's life and I so wish something amazing and good will happen, you know, just to break up the monotony of all this bad shit going on. She's kidnapped Grandma from my house to stay with her the next couple of days for support. Since Mark works nights, it's good that Grandma can be there with her.
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