Not Enjoyable

OK, so I must say, this was NOT the most enjoyable weekend I've ever had. My close friend for over 10 years, Cindy, had to have major surgery to amputate her leg below the knee. In itself, this would suck!! But, I'm also her health care person, and so needed to be there (and to hold her hand of course!). So the whole family slogs on out the hour and a half drive (with 4 kids age 2-8 mind you) to St. Joe's hospital in Syracuse in the misty, crappy, rain. Then we find out......it was postponed!!!!!! So here is my poor friend, who not only has to come to terms with what's about to happen, but now has all this extra time to just sit there and DWELL on it!!!!!!! Grrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!

Day two......no one to watch all 4 kiddos, so we have to pull them out of school, and drag them all along AGAIN on a wonderful rainy, crappy Monday back up to the hospital!!!!!!! Yep, guess what..........DELAYED!!!!!!! And we HAD to leave at 5pm, as it was a school nite, and we had things that had to go to, so it totally SUCKED!!!!!!!! We had to leave her sitting there all alone, in tears while she got to wait around AGAIN!!!!!!!!!

They finally got her in at 7pm, the surgery got done at 9:30, and she got back to her room around midnite. She sounded way better than I expected, and everything has gone fine so far, but sheesh!!!!!! I was soooooooooo mad!!!!!!!! how can they do that to someone????I mean, geez, the waiting and stressing out over what's going to happen is the worst part!!!!!

So at least it's over, and she's doing well. I just am mad, cause she is my friend, and I wanted to be there thru the procedure for her, be there to hold her hand when she woke up....that kind of stuff, you know?? And I couldn't and it really bothers me!!! She's such a good friend, and my kids "Meme", and we were really worried about her. Anywho........didn't make for good sleep or a good weekend!

Then stupid stuff too, on top.......we forgot to bring the kids homework into the hospital, so they didn't get it done....we had nine dogs at home, with no one to take them out all day........so just use your imagination what was there to greet us when we finally got home at 8pm!!!!!!!! Both Sunday and Monday nites!!!!!! Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww.......let me just say...and did I mention EWWW!!!!! And Buster was sooooooooo hyper from no human contact! ugh!!!!! Then the kids didn't sleep well either, worried about our friend, so they were all crabby etc. Sigh!!!!!

Not fun, didn't enjoy it, don't wanna repeat it!!!!!!