The Mad Chatters thread Part 2

[Bbgrizzle]

Bye Kim. Don't be a stranger!

 

[Princess Mindy]

Hiya!
Just got done with dinner. BBQ ribs and corn on the cobb. YUM!

Glad you checked in Denise! When you get a second tell us how your day went.

welcome back Dolphinrescuegirl! Hope to see you more often!

Hey Bonnie! Get any cool oceangrams today? I'm signing mine *~DIS~* Princess M

Hi Karen!

Hi everyone!

 

[EEYOREMAMA]

Hi Mindy. Just dropped by to see if anyone is on. Glad you're here. How was your day?

 

[Princess Mindy]

Hi Karen-I'm glad you're here too

My day was pretty good. I had quite a bit to keep me occupied at work today. My boss is going on vacation all next week and half the week after that, so things are going to slow WAY down.
How was your day?

 

[EEYOREMAMA]

Pretty good and pretty busy. It seems like the second I leave school, it downpours. Right now I have the cleanest Trailblazer on the road. Then it stops, and starts again right around dinner. I have to run around resetting clocks and plugging computers back in, etc...... Can't wait for the rainy season to be over. BORING!!!

 

[paigevz]

Well! I missed the first day of school. Can you imagine? Even when I took extra maternity leave after Luke was born, I had my mother come for the first week so I could open the year, and then took until October 1st.

We were in meetings on Monday when I got the call from a hospital in a town near my parents (they don't live in a town, they live in the country between two towns), that they had Nick (my older son). They said my mother and he (he was spending his last week before his school district started with his grandparents) had a traffic accident that morning. All they would tell me was that he and she were both awake and alert and that he had given her my telephone number and asked her to call me. She told me also that he seemed to have no broken bones, and asked if they could treat him.

We were 4 hours away, but left as soon as we got the little guy from preschool.
I called my parents' store on the way and one of their employees told me that the girl who had hit them had called the store to tell them she'd been hit and to call the ambulance. My dad had already raced to the scene, and later we learned he'd arrived before the ambulance. We also called my two brothers on the way and tried to call the hospital, but they wouldn't give us any info..........they couldn't seem to locate dad.

Mom had some internal bleeding and her blood pressure dropped, so they decided to fly her to another hospital in Arkansas.

When we got there, they had just released Nick to my Dad. He has a seatbelt bruise pattern down the side of his neck, across his chest and abdomen. He was very shaken. We immediately set out to drive the two hours to the other hospital and he cried because he didn't want to get in a car again.

When we finally arrived over there (we had to drive through two storms with lightning, strong wind and torrential rain, but both kids were asleep through them.......later we found out there was a tornado warning in one of the areas we went through right after we'd gone through), we found that mom's bleeding had stopped. They did a CT and found a small tear in her liver, but it had stopped bleeding so they were watching it. She had a badly broken ankle that they thought they might have to do surgery on.

So this was all Monday night. School was to start on Tuesday. I hated to do it, but when we'd arrived to get Nick and found Mom had been careflighted, I knew we'd have to go there too, and there was no way to get back that night, so I called for a substitute for the FIRST day of school.

So they did another CT today to confirm her liver had healed itself, and then were going to move her to a regular room when a bed opened up, so we headed home.

Now I'm unhappy to have left her there, unhappy to have missed the first day of school, but very happy that all she has to deal with now is the ankle and that my son is fine. He had a bit of a sore neck this morning and if he moves too suddenly, it pains him, but I am just so happy he was in the back seat in his seat belt! I'm unhappy to go to work and leave him, but he is going over to his best friend's house for the day. The friend's mom will give him his ibuprofen and not let him wrestle, she said. I told him all he can do is watch TV and play video games, so he's quite happy.

So that's why I missed the first opening day of school in 13 years. AND why I'm hugging my babies extra tight tonight.

 

[EEYOREMAMA]

Paige are you okay? I know that's a dumb question at a time like this, but I want you to know that I care about what you're going through.

 

[paigevz]

Yes, Karen, thanks. I was very shaky after the call and my friends insisted on having me eat and driving me home to meet dh.

We got home at 6, and after wandering the house a bit I did feel like crying, so I did a bit, then got a shower and ate.

I'm okay now, just a bit worried about what the parents are thinking, coming to their baby's first day of second grade and the teacher isn't there.

I also wish I could stay home with Nick but know the friend's mom will take care of him, and actually he'll keep busier with the friend to play with, and I wish I could've stayed to help Mom when she goes home, and to be with dad. I feel torn in different directions.................

 

[EEYOREMAMA]

Do me a favor girl. Count to 10. Just stop whatever your doing and do the count. You do not need any more stress in your life. You are too important to too many people. You have had your share and it's time to regroup.

 

[paigevz]

Then when we got home we had some letter from the HOA saying we needed to do "lawn maintenance". I have no time or energy for lawn maintenance.

 

[Princess Mindy]

Oh Paige! Words cannot describe how much I am feeling for you right now. I sincerely hope your mother is all right and has a speedy recovery. And your son-thank goodness he is all right. I will be praying for you. And don't worry what the mothers of your students think. Each and every one of them would do exactly what you did if in the same situation-I have no doubt. Take the time you need to regroup. And about the lawn-at this point I would tell HOA where they can stick it. Sorry to be so crude, but this is not something you need to be thinking about now.
Lots of pixie dust to you and your family. Keep in touch and let us know the progress. You are important to us!

 

[EEYOREMAMA]

Mindy and Paige I really have to turn in. Morning comes awfully fast these days. Paige please let us know what's going on. Mega amount of prayers and tons of pixie dust. I'll hold extra special good thoughts for you and your family.

Mindy as always, love chatting with you!!!!! Chat with later.

Goodnight

 

[Princess Mindy]

Bye Karen-take care!

 

[paigevz]

It really all seems to be fine, now, Karen. Mom should be let go tomorrow, and then she'll be home by herself while Dad works, but he always takes off early in the afternoon to go home and rest, so likely she'll sleep in, then have a few hours to read and eat, and he'll be home by then.

She says she'll have him make a sandwich and fruit plate for her in the mornings for lunch and put it by the bed with water and a cup of ice for water for later.

She's got everything so planned, but her worries are so funny. She didn't like me missing the first day of school, but couldn't help it as she knew I'd come get Nick anyway. Then, she hated that they cut her clothes off as she had a brand new bra on and she and I are big bosomed so have to buy the expensive big ones. Then, she was telling my father what parts of the house he had to clean because her friends would come check on her and they couldn't see her kitchen floor and bathroom in that condition (and I was just at her house to get Nick, it's perfectly nice).

 

[paigevz]

I've gotta turn in too. I'm taking in Luke to school early tomorrow, so dh can sleep a bit later (he was so nice and did all the driving the last two days), and I need to get to school early enough to see what they did, what still needs to be done, and the state of the room. I asked the sub to leave a detailed note of everything she thought I should know, and she's a very particular mom of one of our new second graders this year, so it'll probably be about 7 pages long.............and I'm sure I'll be completely up to speed after I read it, I was so glad she took the job since I knew she'd be so conscientious about everything.

 

[EEYOREMAMA]

GOOD MORNING ALL

Before I run,

I wanted to tell everyone to hang in there and have a wonderful day!

I'll leave Pooh serving up breakfast.

Bye

 

[Bbgrizzle]

Good morning!

Karen, I hope you have a great day at school!

Paige, I'm so sorry to hear about your mom! That's awful! And I'm sure that was hard on you to have to miss the first day of school. I hope the second day goes Extra well for you! Pixie dust for your mom!

Hello, Mad Chatters!

 

[MUFFYCAT]

good morning girls!

have a good day!

 

[EEYOREMAMA]

Happy Wednesday all. Only 173 more to go. Don't you love me?

 

[cassi06403]

No one's been here since the morning? What's going on?!