Oh ita !. What a pain. I think asking for a new nurse is perfectly reasonable.
So, yesterday we had the forecast of over a foot of snow but woke up in the morning to nothing on the ground yet, so we drove to north Denver for CJ's karate tournament. Our pre-snow plan had been to do tournament stuff and then race down to Colorado Springs to see Jeff Dunham. With no weather issues and decent traffic, it would have been a tight squeeze but possible. We kept watching the forecast, looking out the windows, checking with Stephanie and finally decided to leave tournament a bit early and make the drive.
It was slow going, but not too bad. We were on one stretch of road that didn't have blowing snow, no apparent ice, and the Jeep started fishtailing, turning sideways to traffic one way, then the other, then completely backwards (oh look, a semi), and then finally onto the soft shoulder of the road, facing the right way. K-Bug was driving and handled it as well as a person could. As we settled and realized we hadn't hit a thing and were all ok, another car pulled off to check on us. After we all caught our breath, K-Bug pulled back on the road and the other car followed us for a while to make sure we were ok.
We made it to Jeff Dunham about 15 minutes after the time of the ticket, but they had delayed the start of the show a bit. We were in the arena as the lights went down and made it to our 5th row seats just as he took the stage. He was fantastic. SO glad we made the trip. I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG time. The drive back was much less eventful, just slow and steady as the roads were much icier this time.
I'm so glad everything worked out for you guys!
(insert standard complaint about Daylight Savings Time)
mad that it is later than I feel it should be.
grr. argh.
And lo, she had forgotten we sprung forward. But she was only half an hour late, so I assume she's working off of clocks that shift automatically.
Turns out the pharmacy didn't send everything it was supposed to, so now she's left to go track down a dressing kit--if I didn't have a portacath it'd be easier to work around, but there's no way she can access this and leave a line in over an hour without sealing the site.
On a normal week this would be beyond me. This is entirely not a normal week. I think I'll try sleeping again.
Suzi--that must have been scary. Glad you got to the show in time and with zero damage.
Suzi, glad you all are okay! All scary drives should end in something funny.
ita !, your nurse sounds annoying, but if she's a competent nurse...I dunno, it's good you've got someone who knows what she's doing where it counts, right? It's tiring to feel like you have to nanny a grown person, though. Do you know yet if the visiting-nurse deal will continue? Surely yes, this is so much better than wrestling with the ER.
In me news, I slept until noon, it's a gorgeous day, and my darling cat won't stop yowling at me. He has everything, what he wants I don't know.
Glad you are all okay and enjoyed the show, Suzi! Yikes!
You know what's more fun that working two jobs? Working two jobs with cramps after not enough sleep. Yee haw. But, you know, yay money, so I need to just suck it up.
I'm really glad we took K-Bug's Jeep instead of my Mustang. I don't even want to think of my Mustang on those conditions.
I still look back at the slidy part of the night and we were all so calm. No screaming. No crying. Just getting it handled and then boggling that we were all fine and the car was fine and it was over. I've spun out before, but this was both CJ and K-Bug's first and certainly my worst.
Suzi, I'm glad you guys made it home safely! I was thinking about you guys but too exhausted to email.
Yikes, Suzi! I don't miss driving in that stuff at all. Good to hear it all ended up ok.
ita !, I hope the nurse locates the kit and finishes the treatment as soon as possible. Tough call on the request for a new nurse, the devil you know and all that.
Woohoo, someone just came and picked up my husband's Apple IIe and associated crap. Craigslist selling proceeds apace.
