fscking family

[baratron]

My mum had her operation today around lunch time. My dad left me a note to say that she was back in the ward at 1pm, and then disappeared. He didn't ring me, and I couldn't get hold of him as his phone was turned off because you're not supposed to have mobiles switched on in hospitals. So I was getting really worried. At 7pm when his phone was switched off, I was mildly stressed. At 9pm I was quite concerned, because hospital visiting hours end about 8.30. By the time I got home at 10 I was pretty damn frantic. I couldn't ring the hospital for information because I didn't know which ward she was in and I didn't know if the form she'd filled in would give them permission to tell me. I just had to assume there was no bad news because I would have been told that (surely?).

Well, my dad got in at 11pm, without my mum. Apparently my mum's been kept in hospital another night, which I was expecting. Except he'd left the hospital 2 hours previously and come home via the supermarket, without switching on his mobile phone either. It had not occurred to him that I might be worried by the general lack of information.

GAH!! I swear, if I wasn't related to my family, I wouldn't bother with them.

Comments

[nitoda]

HUGS! Hope all goes well and your Mum is out and happier for Christmas ... and that you don't end up getting too stressed by it all. My brain is refusing to think very clearly at the mo' - too many things to remember to do ... but I'm so looking forward to a week of sun and snow and not having to worry about anyone at all when we go to LaPlagne on the 3rd! Thanks for the card by the way - and sorry we haven't sent you and Richard one, but we don't do the whole thing these days. Just call me Scrooge ... I wouldn't mind so much if anyone else in the family got at all concerned about doing things like cards etc. but after over 25 years of doing it all I basically went on strike and said if no-one else did it, it wouldn't happen, and Lo and Behold! It Doesn't Happen!

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Hugs, Back Rub, best wishes to your Mum.