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April 26, 2007
We got to go to the aquarium
But at such a cost!
I figured I'd better update all of you. I'm sure you were all at the edges of your seats, worried about me having to drive for miles and miles to go see Queen Califia's garden. Well, after all my anticipation of the big sight-seeing show down, there turned out not be any fight at all.
Sissy One got sidelined, big time, and let me tell you, it put a scare into all of us.
At seven-thirty Friday morning, Sissy One's cell phone rang. It was her daughter (my treasured niece with whom the sun rises and sets) who is traveling in South America with a college chum. They were camping on an island in the middle of Lake Titicaca. How cool is that?
Apparently, not so awesomely cool when your friend starts running a high fever, has convulsions and has to be carried out by yourself and taken to La Paz to a hospital. Even less awesomely cool when you yourself spike up a fever and have muscle aches so intense that you're in tears.
All Sissy One wanted to do after that phone call was sit by her cell phone and wait for Treasured Niece to call again and tell her what was happening, if she would get to see the lovely doctor in La Paz who had treated her friend and who just happened to have graduated from Johns Hopkins, whether the fever was under control or getting worse, whether the pain in her lungs was keeping her from breathing.
Honestly, all I wanted to do was sit there by the cell phone, too, but Sissy One shooed us out the door to the Aquarium which was awesome and where Sissy Two and I chose special Aquarium Names. Please refer to me henceforth as Sticky Mucous Trap (did I mention I got a cold?) and Sissy Two is Split-Nose Lumpsucker. Thing One is too diginified for such things.
Just so you know, Treasured Niece is doing fine. She's been pumped full of antibiotics and is on her way again. We are all breathing deeply (well, I can't through my nose, but I'm sure that will pass and why oh why do none of the decongestants have that lovely pseudophedrine in them anymore?) and are vastly relieved.
So has that ever happened to you? Have you ever been all geared up for a fight just to have it not happen?
Posted by Eileen at 7:00 AM | Comments (4)
Comments
Eileen, hugs on Treasured Niece being on the mend! It must have been so scary for Sissy #1 and all of you.
As for arguments I've geared up to fight. There was an occasion when No-Longer-Teenager No#1 didn't get paid for months by the pharmacy chain she worked for when she took a gap year. The manager really messed her around, I wrote to head office via email and didn't hear back. A week I threatened them with legal action and they paid up the same day. I'm kind of glad I didn't have to fight that fight :-)
Posted by: Michelle C at April 26, 2007 11:09 AM
Glad to hear TN is on the mend.
Posted by: Eileen Cook at April 26, 2007 12:41 PM
It happens to me a lot. Though I'm glad this is one you didn't have to fight (but not glad about the surrounding circumstances).
My aquarium name would be sharp-tooth-shiny-grabber (since I love jewelry and sharks). Love the idea of aquarium names!
I'm glad everything worked out in the end.
Posted by: Antoinette at April 30, 2007 11:14 AM
Completely unrelated, but hey, why break from my normal...
I just saw your trailer on your site for Un-Veiled and it looks great! (so it's pre-ordered on Amazon now. :) )
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at May 4, 2007 2:46 PM
