First of all, I can tell you that working 7pm-3am 5 days a week and being used to being in bed by 5am and sleeping til after noon… makes you feel like CRAP when you get up at 7:30 and then drive all over two counties and then go back to work at 7pm that night til 3am… UGH I am STILL recovering!
Anyway, so here’s what happened when I attempted to met Friend for lunch.
I had emailed him several times. Once overnight then two or three followups in the morning. After I took DH to work, I was too excited to go to sleep. I was afraid I’d sleep through the alarm. So, I spent some extra time with shower and hair and clothes etc, then headed out. Friend never did reply to any of my emails. I didn’t want to call because if he were at work, then he’d have gotten the emails or was too busy to be interrupted by a call.. and if he weren’t at work, then his wife might be with him and if you remember she is a crazy jealous B****. So, I sent a harmless text asking if he was OK. He replied a few minutes later with “Yes, I am alright.” Well, at that point I figured he had some really good reason to not have emailed.
So, I went to my sister’s coffee shop a little before the lunch rush arrived and she sat with me for a while and got me a bowl of chicken and dumplings and a caramel latte.. then our brother came in and joined us. He’s been laid off from a job he had for 11 years and is on unemployment in his 50s. So, we all talked for a while, then Brother went to use Sis’s computer to check on some stuff.
About that time, I got a text from Friend saying he just got to work and just got the emails and wished I’d called. I texted that I didn’t want to call. He explained that he had a Dr appt that morning and his blood pressure was so high the Dr sent him to the hospital where they “shocked him” he said and got two pills. Then he went on to work, but had to work through lunch because he had to be back to the hospital at 3 to have an ultrasound on his kidneys done. He has tumors on his kidneys and they’re making his health very fragile. One tumor has been growing and they said they will eventually have to take that kidney. So they are waiting as long as they can since two is always better than 1.
So of course I was immediately worried about him. I am so scared that after having lost him for 14 years that I will lose him forever after finally getting reunited with my first and true love.
So anyway, I had taken my laptop and Sis has free wifi at her shop, so I checked email and sent him one about how I was worried. He said not to worry and that he really wished he could have seen me and hated that he got sick. Well, after a couple hours hanging out there, Brother had to go and so did I.
I missed seeing him, but it’s ok. We’ve arranged to meet for lunch next Tuesday. It will be better anyway since I’ve taken Monday night off work to go to 6 and 10’s Christmas program at school. So I can get some sleep Monday night, take DH to work Tue morning and then head on to my hometown and meet him whenever he can. Hopefully, I will remember to make chicken and dumplings and take a big Tupperware container of that for us both. It’s his favorite food.
So.. that’s what’s happening here.
