Are You Effing Kidding Me?

I should have known. I should have known that last week when we thought something might be going on with baby Molly, that would not be the end of it. I can never get away with only one bad thing happening at a time…...that’s just not my luck. Around here, it seems like when it rains, it pours. Take this post for example……http://thecrumbfamily.blogspot.com/2009/08/are-you-kidding-me.html. Similar titles....except more emphasis was added to this one.

So here goes……

On Friday, I was really grumpy all day. I was just uncomfortable and have begun to stress about the final weeks before our little girl arrives. I had asked my parents to keep Brody Friday night so that Saturday morning, I could just get up and clean, clean, clean. Of course, they love watching Brody and Brody loves his “Mee-Maw and Pop-Pop” so it was a win-win all around. My parents picked him up from daycare Friday evening and I met them at their house after work so I could give them all his stuff (he can’t sleep without his “lovies”). I got to their house, and we were just watching Brody eat when the phone rang. My dad looked at it and it was Ted. I thought that was strange that he called their house and not my cell but I realized that I had left my cell in the car. I get on the phone and the first thing out of his mouth is “Okay, don’t freak out!” I hate it when a sentence starts that way because chances are, I am going to freak out. I said, “okay….what’s going on?” He said, “I am on my way to UVA Medical Center. I was trying to put a tree stand up in a tree and fell. I think I broke my leg, among other things.” At this point, I am pretty calm because I don’t think I really understood the magnitude of the situation. I asked “how far did you fall?” His response: “You don’t want to know.” He said his friend Chris was with him and Chris was driving him to the hospital. He told me he had already called Tab and Kevin in case I called and was freaking out. Also, Tab and Kevin live about 1 hour and ½ from where he was so just in case he couldn’t drive, Kevin could help him out. He told me he would call and let me know what was going on.

We hung up the phone and that is when I started freaking out. I decided to head up to Tab’s just in case Ted was in really bad shape and couldn’t drive. I ran home, packed my stuff and headed up that direction. Ted was texting me letting me know what was going on. By the time I got to Tab’s, I still didn’t know what was going on and then he called and they said that he was lucky and had only a really bad sprain on his right ankle. He also had a huge bruise on his left thigh from the fall. Apparently the rails he was using to climb up the tree (similar to a ladder) came down with him and slammed onto his legs. They gave him crutches and told him to follow back up with his doctor in a few days if he wasn’t feeling better. To say that Ted was lucky is an understatement. He actually fell 15-20 feet. He could have been paralyzed, in a coma, or worse….dead. I am still amazed that his damage was so minimal. But, definitely thanking God for that.

Ted said that he thought he could drive and said he would head home Saturday morning. So I got up that morning and headed home. I had much to do around the house and thought the earlier I get home, the better. Well….as I started cleaning, I got completely overwhelmed with how much I had to do that I had a mini-breakdown. I called my parents and my Mom headed over the help me. I swear, I don’t know what I would do without them. So, she came over, helped me clean for a couple of hours, and by that time, Ted was home. I have to say….seeing him was much worse than I expected. He could not put any weight on either of his legs and was struggling to get up the stairs. I freaked out. How was I, 9 months pregnant, going to help him get around???? If I wasn’t pregnant, that would be a different story, but we were definitely quite a pair. So my Mom helped us pack up some stuff, and we stayed at their house for the past couple of nights. When Ted got up yesterday, his left leg was feeling better and he was actually able to get around without the crutches, but he still can’t put any pressure on his right leg. He is staying home from work today so hopefully one more day of rest will help and he will be able to move around much easier by the end of the week.

So, if you thought that was it, not so much. So in the midst of my “mini-breakdown” Saturday morning regarding trying to clean my house, when I called my parents, my Mom told me that they had just been in an accident. WHAT? Are you kidding? Apparently, they were rear-ended by a funeral home limo. Luckily, they weren’t injured and there was no damage to their car since the limo hit the trailer hitch, but my Mom said she immediately jumped out of the car, yelled at the driver and checked on Brody. Yep, this was Brody’s first car accident. She said he looked scared, which was probably from the jolt of the impact, but he looked at her and said “I’m okay!” They exchanged info with the guy and since there was no visible damage, my parents left. Thank goodness it wasn’t worse, but still…….2 accidents in one weekend???? Really??

Finally, just to top the weekend off, I almost went to the hospital on Saturday night. I am pretty sure it is from all the stress and all the cleaning I did, but I started having contractions and they were about 4 minutes apart. My doctor told me to go if they were 5 minutes apart for an hour. Well…..they were 4 minutes apart for about 45 minutes and then they slowed down. Since then, I have had them on and off but nothing consistent. I go back on Thursday and I am pretty sure he will examine me to see if I am dilated. It really won’t matter since I am having a c-section, but it may indicate if I will go before the 21st.

So, that was our weekend. Fun, huh? It can only go up from here, right?