Two Weeks and Counting
Two weeks ago, in an attempt at spontaneity, I took a flight
to DC. Ever the penny pincher, I flew in on Monday and took the train straight
to work. By 9:30am, I was double fisting (the appropriate version) two coffees
and heading to my office. I am not sure how I got through that day or even how
I made it home, although I faintly recall my brother-in-law, Reidster, driving
me. My only goal: make it through the
door and to my bed.
Instead… I came home to a super sick and secretly pregnant
sister, Abby. Since Abs was unable to get out of bed, we all rotated between
taking care of her and my niece. The next couple of days were a whirlwind.
Eventually Reidster took my niece to my parent’s house, so he could focus on my
sister. By Thursday, Abby was in the hospital diagnosed with the Kate Middleton
disease, hyperemesis.
By Friday we had 3 construction workers/plumbers installing
a shower in the basement bathroom. Since it was supposedly a two-day project, we
didn’t cancel the appointment. At the
end of Friday my bathroom looked like a prisoner dug his way to freedom.
By Saturday, my parents decided to pass my niece off to my
aunt and drive from SC to Atlanta to assist in the hospital. Of course the only
logical thing was for me to drive the 3.5 hours from Atlanta to SC to represent
my family at a wedding. It was a drive-by. Came in, made a speech, so everyone
knew I was there, and was back in Atlanta by 10am Sunday morning to pick up the
kids that I (pre-hospital and prison break) volunteered to babysit overnight.
Despite the fact there was a toilet on the back porch and a
giant Alice in Wonderland hole in the bathroom floor, Monday morning proved a
success with both kids dressed and ready for the bus before 7am. It was a team
effort. Monday evening, however, proved much less successful. On the hospital
front, sister was still too sick to eat. On the home front, the two-day
bathroom-remodel was stretched to four and in an ironic twist of fate the
upstairs sink was now backed up with black water.
The abridged version of Tuesday to Sunday: Abby is still sick and hospitalized but they
have ordered a PICC line so she can start receiving nutrients and meds in a
more disgusting way (feel free to google image), but it also means that she may
get to go home soon. The plumbing for the downstairs bathroom is finished, but
since we only paid for the plumbing, we are all assisting my mom to finish the walls
and tile the floors and shower. In a moment of delirium my mom might have cut
the meat off her pinky finger with an electric drill saw. Since the show must
go on, she was bandaged, medicated and sent back to work singing “Sunday,
bloody Sunday”. The upstairs sink was fixed by draining the pipeline that runs
through the wall in my bedroom. After
deep cleaning the carpet, repainting the wall and putting my bed back together,
my room only has a slight smell of mildew.
We are on a diet of caffeine and take out. We go to work, do
hospital duty and then come home to clean and repair the chaos. We are in the
middle of a storm, but Jesus calms the storm (in our case declogs the drain). Today
in our house church the aesthetics were bloody fingers, grout, and IV’s , but the
music was Jesus at the Center of it All. Now to watch the Falcons lose and clean up
some more spit.
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