Spring Break Stress

Is it possible that Spring Break could bring on stress?
Well let me tell you a little story - true too!

Since three of our granddaughters were out of school and supposed to spend the week with their father, my wife volunteered us to take them to see him and spend the week with them.  An eight hour trip if you don’t stop to make too many potty breaks.  Oh, wait, it gets better…
Two other grandchildren were also out of school and had not seen these cousins in several months so the next volunteerism was that we pick them up and take them along with us for the week.  Sounds like fun so far, doesn’t it?  Oh, by the way, an uncle of these children is moving, can I loan him my 18 foot flatbed trailer.  And take it along on the trip to leave with him?
Even more fun…
Friday night my wife picks some of the grands up and brings them to the house and the three sisters are delivered by their mother.  In the middle of the night my wife wakes up with diarrhea and vomiting and every hour she is in the bathroom with this mess.  She finally gets to sleep about five am and we were scheduled to leave around eight am.  Needless to say, we didn’t leave then and grandpa got to serve breakfast to five hungry grandchildren who wanted to know “when are we going to leave?”  As soon as grandma gets up and feels like it is my response.

We finally get on the road around eleven am and have to make a couple of stops along the way but nothing major.  Feed the children pb&j sammiches and grapes and juice.  Grandma doesn’t eat anything cuz she is afraid she won’t be able to keep it down.

We finally get to our destination about ten pm.  Grandma is still not feeling well.

We go to bed about eleven-thirty and grandma is up three times during the night going at both ends.

Sunday is a little better for grandma but she isn’t feeling too hot.  We get over-the-counter advice from a pharmacist and try to cure this problem ourselves.  To make a long story short, Tuesday night we end up at the emergency room where they give my wife two liters of fluids because she is so dehydrated and a shot to stop the vomiting and finally send us home at five am.  Grandma is on her way to recovery.  yay!!!

oops, we still have a few more days to go before spring break is over.  More to follow tomorrow!

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