Dealing with the Unexpected

My wife is in the hospital.

On Friday, we were on our way home from doing the laundry. As we were getting ready to turn into the parking garage for our apartment complex, we were talking about how she hadn’t gone to see the cardiologist her general practitioner had referred her to nearly two months ago. She is a heart patient, she had a triple bypass just a few years ago and has had multiple angiograms and angioplasties, with a few stents put in for good measure. She’s been doing really well over the past couple of years – her health has improved 10 fold, but over the past couple of days she’s started noticing more and more chest pain coming up. So, the plan was for her to make the appointment once we got into the house.

Then… WHAM! Our car is rear ended.

I jump out of the car to confront the person; he is very apologetic… he didn’t see my blinker and there was a heavy glare from the sun.

So I go around to the passenger side to check on Tracy.

“I need an ambulance,” she says.

So I call 911 on the cell phone and she is taken away to the hospital. She’s OK, but the impact and shock from the accident really multiplied whatever was going on with her heart, as well as causing her back and neck to be wrenched.

She’s currently OK, on the cardiac ward of one of the local hospitals. She will probably have a stress test, and possibly a cath, on Monday. The car is drivable, and our insurance will cover that completely. We didn’t have coverage for a rental while it’s being fixed, but her sister is going to help us out with the cost on that one. My work is being great: I’m going back in today in a little bit, and then will be back over to the hospital to see her.

I’d really like to write something deep, something about my gratitude for how bad this could have been, but wasn’t. Something about how we attracted this into our lives. Something about how this is somehow an opportunity.

But all I’m doing at this point is trying to keep my attitude positive and doing what I need to do in the moment.

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