In the past couple weeks, I learned again that our little daily worries and annoyances mean nothing in the big picture. Hooray for good health...and swingsets!
"Happy New Year!" was the last thing I recall hearing before we were abruptly disconnected from the matrix of everyday life.
Along the way we endured a full 7 day hospital stay while being warned it could be "up to 3 weeks" - with the occasional caveat that "sometimes we have to operate a second time" a surgeon who proudly boasted "before" the surgery that "I do 600 of these type surgeries a year, sometimes 10 a day over the course of 15 years" - he had to admit later that this one perplexed him. Having to hear the words "uncommon", "We're not exactly sure", "We may never know" and my favorite word "Try" as in "lets try this"... "We're going to try this route and see if it works" ... you want "common" and you don't want them to "try" things, you don't want to hear that they are transferring you from one hospital to another because they have "great disease specialists" (as if the fact that they're "great" diminishes the impact of the words that follow) you want answers - and for several weeks those have been hard to come by and when we do get answers they are somewhat cryptic, incomplete, fraught with jargon and often the answer just gives birth to more questions. I kept asking if this was life threatening and if my daughter would be able to come home and I never got a good answer.
The good news is that YES! she is feeling better! I went to the doctors office on Friday and yet again on Tuesday (once more this month and I get a free t-shirt and a half priced hair cut! (i.e. shoot me)) - but I think we're FINALLY on the way back to total recovery!
P Lou is most certainly correct though - the one thing that I will take from all of this is that it taught me that none of this other B.S. that we fret about matters at all. I have great insurance but there was a time I envisioned a 100K medical bill (like you hear about on the news) but I must say I would have smiled from ear to ear as I signed the bankruptcy paperwork - just as long as it meant that my daughter would return home. I would give up my house, my job, all of my possessions - and be the happiest man in the world - just as long as I could dance with her again, watch her play with toys, marvel at her funny quips and see her smile.
I thank everyone for their thoughts, support, the gifts, cards and the network of friends and family that came together with ideas, some of their own experiences, research, etc.,
When something like that happens, it should remind us all to quit bitchin about our trivial trials. I have to admit I pretty much have it made in the shade compared to what could be going on in my life.
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"Happy New Year!" was the last thing I recall hearing before we were abruptly disconnected from the matrix of everyday life.
Along the way we endured a full 7 day hospital stay while being warned it could be "up to 3 weeks" - with the occasional caveat that "sometimes we have to operate a second time" a surgeon who proudly boasted "before" the surgery that "I do 600 of these type surgeries a year, sometimes 10 a day over the course of 15 years" - he had to admit later that this one perplexed him. Having to hear the words "uncommon", "We're not exactly sure", "We may never know" and my favorite word "Try" as in "lets try this"... "We're going to try this route and see if it works" ... you want "common" and you don't want them to "try" things, you don't want to hear that they are transferring you from one hospital to another because they have "great disease specialists" (as if the fact that they're "great" diminishes the impact of the words that follow) you want answers - and for several weeks those have been hard to come by and when we do get answers they are somewhat cryptic, incomplete, fraught with jargon and often the answer just gives birth to more questions. I kept asking if this was life threatening and if my daughter would be able to come home and I never got a good answer.
The good news is that YES! she is feeling better! I went to the doctors office on Friday and yet again on Tuesday (once more this month and I get a free t-shirt and a half priced hair cut! (i.e. shoot me)) - but I think we're FINALLY on the way back to total recovery!
P Lou is most certainly correct though - the one thing that I will take from all of this is that it taught me that none of this other B.S. that we fret about matters at all. I have great insurance but there was a time I envisioned a 100K medical bill (like you hear about on the news) but I must say I would have smiled from ear to ear as I signed the bankruptcy paperwork - just as long as it meant that my daughter would return home. I would give up my house, my job, all of my possessions - and be the happiest man in the world - just as long as I could dance with her again, watch her play with toys, marvel at her funny quips and see her smile.
I thank everyone for their thoughts, support, the gifts, cards and the network of friends and family that came together with ideas, some of their own experiences, research, etc.,
When something like that happens, it should remind us all to quit bitchin about our trivial trials. I have to admit I pretty much have it made in the shade compared to what could be going on in my life.
I am glad Aubri is better.
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