Wow what a day today has been. I was woken up this morning with a phone call at 6:30am and let me tell you that if you wake me up that early someone had better be seriously sick or hurt or dead. It was my mothers husband telling me that he had brought her into the E.R last night. She was seriously ill and they kept her for tests. She now has to wait for symptoms to subside and inflamation to go down before they can perform surgery on her.
My mom and I have not always been close but in last few years we have grown very close and I am not ready to see that end. I am not a religous person but I have been praying and asking her angels to keep watch over her and see her through this safely. As I grow older I find that the only thing that anyone can truly count on is their family. Who else can you vent to, cry on a shoulder of, get angry with and tell off, laugh with, and who knows what else. I can honestly say that no matter how much goes on in your life do not take for granted your family. At any given day you could be all by your self with no family.
I live in Indiana and my mom is in New Hampshire, that is about 12-13 hours away. In today’s economy with only one income there is no way that we can afford for me to go out there. I really feel like I need to be there when she gets out of the hospital. She will need someone there to help out for the first few days or so. I had planned on going out to NH earlier in June for a few days and was not able to due to finances and my jeep not being in the greated shape. Now I am toying with the idea of going out anyway. I’ll figure out how to pull out of debt when I get back. Then again the realistic side of me says just do as mom wants and stay home and trust that she will have the help she needs from her friends in Altrusa and a couple of neighbors. So that is what I have resigned to do and wait and see if she will want my help afterwards.
Family is the most important thing to me. I have lost many members of my family throughout my life. Some of my family that I lost I wish I had spent more time with and kept in touch with better, even if it was just a short phone call to say hi thinking of you, or a letter. From now on I will do much better in keeping in touch with the remaining family that I have. Take time out of your day to write an email, make a phone call or just write a short not e to tell someone you are thinking of them. I know I will from now on.
My mom is doing well and will recover quickly from her surgery, but it made me stop and think when this happened today. Life is to short don’t let time slip by you.
