Can Spring Break bring any more stress?
Grandma is on the way to recovery and that is good because another set of grands shows up as well. Now all twelve grandchildren are in the same city and even in the same house for dinner Thursday. Unfortunately that nite the father of the three sisters goes to the ER for vomiting and stays there while they give him a bag of fluids. He gets home around six in the morning. Nobody is feeling very well but these children are chomping at the bit, bored to tears that the adults won’t take them anywhere interesting to entertain them. We send them to their old school to bother their prior teachers (they aren’t on spring break until the following week) and look for something to do to entertain twelve children under the age of thirteen.
Things are looking up, aren’t they???? aren’t they? whoops, Friday night the youngest of the sisters ends up in the ER for vomiting. She didn’t vomit while she was there and they didn’t give her any fluids as she hadn’t been throwing up enough to become dehydrated. She and her father get home about five am. What is it with emergency rooms that they have to keep you until it is almost daylight before releasing you? Guess they have to keep you a certain length of time to be able to charge their outrageous fees.
Yesterday we got the bill from the hospital for my wife. She spent less than five hours being taken care of and the bill is for almost three thousand dollars. For giving her two liters of fluids, taking some blood and doing the blood work, being seen by a doctor for less than ten minutes and getting a shot in the IV for the vomiting. I know I’m in the wrong business…
To tell the truth the whole trip wasn’t that stressful for me as I didn’t let events get the better of me and influence my self talk or thinking. If I hadn’t been writing about stress in this blog I wouldn’t have learned as much about managing stress as I have and I might have really been pulling my hair out about the situation. But having all this learning experience allowed me to put it to good use in a pratical situation. I’m glad I had the opportunity to learn and also to apply that learning.
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