surreal...

[jay]

This day has long since become one of those burned-into-ROM black-letter experiences...

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. (shakes head)

First things... patgreene is home now. She had a pooling of blood behind her incision, over time... a bit of stress, and the dam burst. Messy, scary, but she's basically no worse off than this morning. Except that now, since the wound is open, it can't be re-sutured and will have to be wet-packed twice a day... involving sticking wet dressings inside her tummy with a Q-tip.

Then, I rushed home from the ER to meet the kids coming home from school... only it was an early day out at David's school. They'd been holding him for 2 hours at the school office. I gathered them all and headed back to Stanford (which has a kiosk in the cafeteria next door to the ER, BTW).

Then... a car crash.

On the way back to the hospital, loaded with kids, I was behind another minivan in a right-hand-turn lane... the light changed, cars began turning right, I started moving... and suddenly the van in front of me went into a full lockdown. I did likewise, swerved, but still clipped their rear left bumper. A pedestrian had suddenly stepped out into a crosswalk, in-between turning cars. Then my impact bumped the car in front of me... into the pedestrian. Knocking him over and injuring his knee, he was taken away by ambulance. But will be OK.

And, naturally, I had neither current insurance or registration documents in the car... maybe if I'd had more than three hours of sleep last night, or been less stressed, I would have observed and avoided the accident. Sigh.

Oh, yeah, I have a relationship that's apparently about to blow up, too, although that discussion now seems like years ago. Mostly due to my insecurities and pet squicks.

Finally, we limped home a few minutes ago... and I have an email waiting about expediting hopeforyou's insurance card, because she's possibly going into surgery tonight. (!!) Whiskey. tango. foxtrot...

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I'm delighted that patgreene is doing better!

I just talked to someone who was helping take care of hopeforyou, and she was doing better at that point -- I hope surgery doesn't become necessary!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear both of these things. hopeforyou's most recent entry did not sound good.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I've talked in more detail to deyo since I typed that. When he left her, hopeforyou was surrounded by helpful people, but there was a chance she'd have to go back to the ER for monitoring.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I'm delighted that Brian's accident wasn't any worse. *whew*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yi. Any idea what happened?

I, too, am relieved that the car accident wasn't any worse. WHAT A DAY!

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

That's all the details I know on hopeforyou. Maybe her loved ones can supply more info later.

[geekchick]

Augh! I don't want to call without checking first since it seems like you've got more than enough going on right now, but if you'd like me to, I can.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

*hugs*hugs*hugs* =O.O=

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

OMG is that why she called the house? Mike said she called 10 min before we got home. I hope it wasn't our outing that gave you only 3 hours sleep. If it makes you feel better I got about the same.

Sorry about the fender bender, I am sure that will turn out ok too.

Big hugs and you know where I am if you need anything... though I will be out of town the next two days. Sheesh!!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Not then... that was just about "ordinary" garden-variety pain (she needed me to come and feed her more Vicodin ;).

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. Gawd. Brian, you so did not need this. Hugs, and best wishes to all. I'm so relieved that the car accident wasn't any worse. It's been bad for car accidents recently. Victoria had one last week. I had one last month. Victoria had a different one a couple of months ago. Someone else on my LJ friends list (sunyata__) had one more than a month ago now, in her just-bought car (and a guy from the towing company stole her bank card which she had accidently left in the car after the accident, and ran up bills, just to make it the most pleasant experience possible).

Hang in there. Try not to think about the relationship stuff right now. Try to get some sleep.

*hugs*

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Although it sounds like we're all playing bumper cars here ;-). But, credit card theft on top of that? Ick... it can *always* be worse! Otherwise, the relationship issues are slowly subsiding.

The day from hell...

[runeshower.livejournal.com]

I didn't see this entry of yours till this morning (Wednesday). What a day you had; here's wishing that today is at least 200% better. And if you'd like to talk, I'm here.

[jasonhollister.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your accident; I hope that you can take a break and collect yourself a bit. At least things with Pat are under control again. I hope that you can still do something about the relationship.

The situation with Hope is really scary. Surgery? Glad she at least got to the hospital ok. If you hear anything more please pass it on. Thanks.

[daltong.livejournal.com]

Finally, we limped home a few minutes ago... and I have an email waiting about expediting hopeforyou's insurance card, because she's possibly going into surgery tonight. (!!) Whiskey. tango. foxtrot...

Holey mazoley, talk about telephone tag. I'm the one who called A.M. in HR to get Hope's insurance info. He wanted to know all about what was going on, and I tried to be vague, because that was Hope's to tell. I said there was a chance she might need to go to the E.R. and that she needed her insurance info in case she did.

Evidently that turned into her needing emergency surgery. Sheesh!

I'm so sorry things just keep going downhill. I do hope you can make it to the coffee-after tonight, even if for a few minutes; I'd like to give you a hug.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad that hopeforyou didn't need surgery...

And thanks for the wonderful brownies!

[bluemoonxp.livejournal.com]

Unbelievable, it some point you get to the point, ok, whats next, we might as well get it all done tonite. Foxtrot, India, know what I mean?

Hang in there, it has to get better. (Well, it doesn't absolutely have to but the odds are going your way.)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(nods) Yeah, I was at that point... and lo, new sources of stress have appeared, at least in the local poly community :-(. More like Foxtrot November for awhile...