It's been awhile

It's been quite awhile since I've posted anything here. The life changes started in August, when I left my husband. In September, my mother fell, breaking her pelvis. She spent two weeks in a skilled nursing facility (SNF) and then was released. Two weeks later, she got her cane tangled up in her walker and fell again, this time breaking her hip. After having her hip replaced, she nearly died, and spent two weeks in ICU. After Ernie, her husband, signed DNR paperwork they booted her out of the ICU. Of course then she immediately started getting better. Ernie on the other hand was another story. He collapsed the day after my mom was taken out of ICU and I found him in the house. He'd been lying on the floor semi-conscious all day. He spent two weeks in ICU. While he was there, my mother went back to the SNF. Then Ernie went into an adjacent SNF, where he stayed until the Friday before Thanksgiving when he took a swing at his nurse, so they took him back to the hospital to see what was going on. He was released the following Tuesday, and this time went to the same SNF that my mom was in, but he was in the Alzheimer's locked unit because it was the only bed available. Then he died they day after Thanksgiving! We were all pretty shocked, thinking he had been malingering more than anything else. My mom remained in the SNF until early February, when she moved in with me. In the meanwhile, my six year old daughter became quite ill with a stomach virus in mid-December. Her doctor's office said to bring her in if she got worse. Well, she didn't get worse but she wasn't getting better either, so I took her to the doctor on December 23, and she was immediately admitted to the hospital for dehydration. She stayed until the following Wednesday, spending Christmas in the hospital. I went back to work on Thursday, and got fired on Friday for missing so much work. Well JEEZ! Thanks for the compassion. The company was difficult to work for anyway, with a tyrant for a CEO. (He also founded and still owned most of the company.) I figure there's a story in there somewhere. I refuse to look at one of those stress test things because I'm sure I'd be off the chart!