When did the time come that I have to worry about my parents going into the hospital? When did the time come that a call late at night or early in the morning makes my heart skip a beat?
Right now as I write this, my Uncle D is having open heart surgery for a triple bypass. He has fought cancer and now has to live with it. He has type 2 diabetes and he is 70, now this. The risk comes with all the other problems he has. For a healthy person this surgery is not that risky.
It all started Monday when he called my dad and was telling him about his bad heart burn. He also complained of a lump in his throat and his heart racing. Daddy told him to call the doctor and go get it checked out. So off Uncle D went to see his doctor. They admitted him directly into ICU and proceeded to run tests of him. They kept him until yesterday. Due to the results of the iodine test they transported him to Toledo Heart Institute.
I sit here waiting for my phone to ring. Even though I know the surgery wont be finished for another 3 + hours.
It just makes my heart hurt thinking that something might go wrong and Uncle D does not make it. It makes my heart hurt thinking about how scared he must have been, going into this. My jaw tightens and hurts knowing his wife and kids have to sit and wait in the hospital while their husband and father go through this surgery. Uncle D is a strong man and I can only hope and pray this wasn't his time to return to his home above.
I just don't know when this happened...When did the time come that my generation had to worry about our parents?
Friday, February 15, 2008
Friday, February 1, 2008
Finding the pecking order
As we start a new phase in life we always have to find out where we stand in the "pecking order". Whether it be a new job or a new group of friends there is a certian order that occures amongst individuals. That is not to say that any one person is more important than any others but we all find our spot in our groups. You see this everytime you bring a new animal into the house.
What brings me to this point is yesterday I had defend my position in the pecking order at work. Maybe because my coworkers don't know me very well...They know me much better now.
Yesterday started off very productive and I was proud of myself for getting so much work done in such a short amount of time. I took time to eat lunch with my husband, something I hadn't done in a couple weeks. I then took off to my main office that is in another little town nearby. I spent about an hour and a half hashing out the new laws with my boss N and getting caught up with her. I really like her, she seems very understanding and supportive. My boss is walking me to the door and we are talking when all of a sudden I am approached by a coworker. (Now this coworker is the one in the pack that would eat last at the food bowl.) Obviously, this was a test of pecking order for her. She proceeds to interrupt N and asks me if I ever turned in this certain paperwork that was due months ago. I very sternly told her yes and like I explained it to her the action had been completed a while ago and she did not need to worry about it. Well she kept going... As many of you know, that know me, this didn't settle well. She continued with how she was digging for this paperwork and she couldn't find it and it wasn't clear to her whether it was done or not. Well this made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I finally had to stop her and explain it all to her again, and I am sure it wasn't in a very professional tone. I finally got my point across and she shutup and turned back around to her desk. N my boss told me to be careful driving back to Troy and I came on home. I was HOT all the way home. How dare she do that to me. I had explained everything to her a couple of times and she is going to show me out infront of my boss...I think not. If she thought I was going to be the last one to eat from the bowl she was sadly mistaken!
What brings me to this point is yesterday I had defend my position in the pecking order at work. Maybe because my coworkers don't know me very well...They know me much better now.
Yesterday started off very productive and I was proud of myself for getting so much work done in such a short amount of time. I took time to eat lunch with my husband, something I hadn't done in a couple weeks. I then took off to my main office that is in another little town nearby. I spent about an hour and a half hashing out the new laws with my boss N and getting caught up with her. I really like her, she seems very understanding and supportive. My boss is walking me to the door and we are talking when all of a sudden I am approached by a coworker. (Now this coworker is the one in the pack that would eat last at the food bowl.) Obviously, this was a test of pecking order for her. She proceeds to interrupt N and asks me if I ever turned in this certain paperwork that was due months ago. I very sternly told her yes and like I explained it to her the action had been completed a while ago and she did not need to worry about it. Well she kept going... As many of you know, that know me, this didn't settle well. She continued with how she was digging for this paperwork and she couldn't find it and it wasn't clear to her whether it was done or not. Well this made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I finally had to stop her and explain it all to her again, and I am sure it wasn't in a very professional tone. I finally got my point across and she shutup and turned back around to her desk. N my boss told me to be careful driving back to Troy and I came on home. I was HOT all the way home. How dare she do that to me. I had explained everything to her a couple of times and she is going to show me out infront of my boss...I think not. If she thought I was going to be the last one to eat from the bowl she was sadly mistaken!
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