Some days go from good to bad in an instant. In the morning same routine as always. Walk the dog around the park.
Go home to some errands and the dog promptly has a nap after his breakfast.
Then I drive my wife to work so I can use the vehicle to commute to a friends house so we can do some driving practice. He is a good driver but a little extra driving practice before exam is a good idea.
However he lives 70km away in downtown Vancouver and driving there isn't fun and parking is very expensive. No problem. I drive halfway and park at skytrain Station and catch train to Vancouver then walk to his house.
So far all good. 1hr commute and I'm with my friends driving. We decide to drive back to my place because it will give him some freeway driving practice and the roads are quieter here so we can practice parking and his wife can practice on easier roads. She is also a good driver but out of practice driving her new car for the first time. Rusty is the term I think is appropriate.
All is going well until I get a message from Life 360 and Apple watch saying my son has been in an accident.
Not good.
I'm in a parking lot with a rusty driver quietly freaking out--worried about my son. In a car that isn't mine and I've never driven. I call my son thinking it's a misdial but no answer.
I keep my calm as much as possible and ask to be driven to where he is. I hear sirens and my heart sinks. When we get there I see ambulance and firetruck and my son at the side of the road.
...and so do my friends. Rusty driver. New car to her. Seeing an accident scene meant her driving skills took a nosedive so getting parked wasn't as easy as it should have been and I sort of abandoned them to park on their own while I went to my son. OK--abandoning a learner driver is bad form but my son was hurt and I have priorities.
I get to my son and they are wrapping up the scene and my son is in the ambulance about to go to the hospital. He sees me and tells me I don't need to say: 'I told you so' about the motorcycle. Now when he was learning I often told him how much I hate motorcycles and how much I wish he wouldn't ride them.
However anamhulance is never a time for scolding. I was just glad he was alive and alert!
So he is going to the hospital and my wife is there. Except she had to take a taxi as I had the vehicle. No problem except she didn't have her wallet to pay the taxi 😞
I'm 40km from my car with friends who are 70km from their home.....and my car has 35min left until I get a parking fine and a few hours until it's impounded 😞
So I either go to.the hospital where I really want to be with my son... but have to get my friends home and my car back.
Off to Vancouver we drive. I'm staying calm as I can but my thoughts aren't really there. On my way home I stop for pizza. Now I shouldn't eat it but I haven't eaten in 24 hours (long story) so diet gets neglected and pizza gets eaten.
I'm about to leave for the hospital and text my wife for updates. My son is battered and bruised. He lost a finger but it was reattached. Then I get the next bit of bad news. He got in an accident while getting a part to fix the water in the house. Now the house has no water. I don't care about water but our two tenants do 😞
I finally get to the hospital and see my son for just long enough to find out that his apple watch sent a message to his ex girlfriend that he was in an accident. She bought the watch for him and set up accident notify a long time ago. It is one contact he forgot to delete. He is finally recovering from that heartbreak and seeing her again could undo 2 months of heartbreak recovery.
I'm scrambling to think of how to juggle that (my son asked for how to handle the situation) when the nurses inform us they are expecting ambulances from a major car crash and all visitors must leave.
So...
Son is hurt
House is without water
Son is having to navigate 1st love heartbreak
And I'm very tired.... then I get the message to pick him up so I get to look after him at home.
In the big picture things could be so so so much worse.
Still... I'm going to stick with my overall assessment that the second half of today was awful. Well technically yesterday because I'm posting this next morning while my son is sleeping because of the pain meds.
Thanks for letting me vent.
No guarantees I'll be posting tomorrow as getting steps in will not be my.main focus.....
But who knows....
Glad I had this forum to post to
Until next post
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