This holiday season has been generally jolly; we're winding down and getting ready, over the course of the next week to send everyone back from whence they came. It will definitely be bittersweet with a dollop of "my house will be clutter-free to my borderline-OCD standards all the time now!".
Tomorrow is Grownup Girl's San Diego bridal shower. The Pinup Girl is hosting, but at my house as she lives in a studio apartment. All I had to do was make sure the house was clean, so I am very looking forward to the party. GuG's family from her biological dad's side will be there and it is not very often that everyone gets together; as you can imagine, it's complicated--though less so since GuG is an adult.
OMomK and her girls will be here as well as a friend of my mother's who has known GuG her whole life--thank you Facebook for making it so easy for us to stay connected.
That's the good news.
The not-so-good news is that GuG got very sick several weeks ago--bad cold accompanied by a terrible cough. She went to the Minute Clinic once and got codeine for the cough, but they gave her a pitiably small amount and even though her mother told her to go in again and get more and she still had the cough when it ran out. This was no polite cough, it was more a body-wracking event. It was, in fact, a rib-cracking cough. Eventually she did go back and got more codeine--as well as all sorts of antibiotics, some Percocet and an offer of morphine, but the damage was done. To add additional suckage to this turn of events, she finished paying her 2012 insurance deductible on 12/28 and was back at urgent care in the new year working on the 2013 deductible. Sigh.
The silver lining was that because it was a school break, she got a few days to spend in bed in a drugged-out haze. She went back to work today (albeit with Grownup Guy as a driver) because if she doesn't finish her hours she doesn't get her doctorate.
The worse bad news is that she is supposed to fly to Chicago and then drive to Montana and spend two months on an Indian reservation doing her ambulatory pharmacy rotation. All of us, plus the doctor, are skeptical about that being possible what with all the ice-scraping that happens in the dead of winter in Montana. We have fingers crossed (and wouldn't mind a little blogger juju and good thoughts sent our way) that the school will find her a replacement rotation in Chicago--where they have public transportation and she will have a fiance to scrape ice if necessary.
There is a Plan C if the above doesn't work out, but one thing DBT taught me (and if I can learn this, anybody can) is that there is no point in worrying about Plan C until you find out if Plan B is viable.
I'll let you know how it turns out.
Fingers crossed for plan B, and I like that train of thinking (keeping things in perspective and not letting thoughts run wild -- [read: what I fight doing in such situations]). Sending good wishes out to the universe on GuG's behalf.
Posted by: lanes | January 06, 2013 at 07:45 AM
Broke a rib?!!! How is that even possible?! Wow, I hope her rotation can be changed. That poor woman needs a vacation!
Posted by: Cassi | January 06, 2013 at 07:50 AM
Don't rule out whooping cough, you know. There's been an outbreak over the past year where I live.
Posted by: suburbancorrespondent, | January 06, 2013 at 08:23 AM
I bruised a rib once and would probably rather go through childbirth again, so I really hope she gets the rotation in Chicago!
Hope the bridal shower is a raging success!
Posted by: Jenrantsraves | January 06, 2013 at 09:21 AM
Sending major good juju her way!!
Posted by: jenn | January 06, 2013 at 10:20 AM
Sorry GuG got so sick. Been there, know how that goes. :(
But working on an Indian Reservation sounds interesting...albeit cold... :(
Sending JuJu your way :D
Posted by: Kim Kasch | January 06, 2013 at 03:04 PM
Oh geez, such a trooper, trying to tough it out, work through it!
Posted by: gary rith | January 06, 2013 at 04:49 PM
Oh my gosh....I hope she feels better soon. I DO hope she will enjoy the shower too; I'm pretty sure a cracked rib won't stop the fun at your house.
Sending positive juju vibes her way. Let us know how it pans out.
Posted by: Busy Bee Suz | January 06, 2013 at 05:56 PM
Poor girl. I hope she's feeling better soon. Fingers crossed and sending good vibes her way...
Posted by: Jen on the Edge | January 06, 2013 at 09:13 PM
Yikes. It's scary when an illness just hangs on forever and ever.
Posted by: Jason | January 06, 2013 at 10:57 PM
I hope she feels better soon! Especially so she can enjoy these celebrations.
Posted by: Green Girl in Wisconsin | January 07, 2013 at 11:17 AM
Hope the shower went well and that the best option prevails!
Posted by: Janet | January 07, 2013 at 11:22 AM
oh dear...hope GuG is feeling better soonest. Bet the party was fun!
Posted by: Gail | January 07, 2013 at 03:45 PM
It takes a long time to recover from something like that. May the powers that be at her school show some mercy... especially if whooping cough might be hiding out. (SC knows of what she posts!)
Posted by: Karen (formerly kcinnova) | January 07, 2013 at 07:26 PM
You haven't posted again, so I hope the shower was wonderful!
Posted by: Karen (formerly kcinnova) | January 07, 2013 at 07:27 PM
I sure hope everything is working out and that the party was a success!
Posted by: Brightside-Susan | January 07, 2013 at 10:08 PM
First of all, I say it does sound like whooping cough, I had it last year, awful, awful, awful.
Second, I have lots of peeps on nearly all the rez's in Montana. I can put out the calvary, or in the case, the Indians. For reals. If she ends up there, I would know good people to call and get her help with small to large stuff. I hope she gets plan b, but if not...
Posted by: Molly | January 08, 2013 at 12:04 AM
I really hope she gets the rotation in Chicago!
Hope the bridal shower is a raging success!
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