An hour and a half after publically announcing our good news we got a call from one of my close family with some bad medical news. We’re waiting for more tests (we should get the answer Tuesday, the outcome of which could be “very bad” or “treatable”) so it’s been a rough 24 hours, about half of which I have spent crying or trying not to. It seems like in my life major events like this always cluster together – the year we graduted and moved away from home Dan’s older sister got married and I lost 3 relatives to cancer. Then nothing for a few years, followed by Dan’s parents moving, us moving to Montreal, Dan’s youngest sister getting married and his oldest sister having a baby. So now it’s starting again – on top of these two events I know someone else is expecting too, so I guess there will probably be a few more major things happening before the year is up.
Depending on what happens I might be coming back home to visit very soon or before the end of the year. I have a week of vacation time left so it’s not a problem.
Last night after we got the news we went out for a walk (to get out of the house and also to buy some “comfort food”). We ended up getting tea biscuits and my vote was for potato chips with dill pickle dip (my #1 craving but I’ve been avoiding fries and potato chips because of all the fat) only to find they don’t make dill picke dip anymore, or at least they don’t sell it in Quebec! Back when I was a kid that was our special treat and I think they only made two flavours of dip, the dill pickle being the far superior choice. So I ended up with just chips, which was still ok.
In the meantime life continues as best it can. I’ve been feeling less tired lately since the “other half” of me has decided to start pulling it’s weight a bit more (i.e. the placenta is producing some of the hormones now, thank goodness). Also I feel like I’ve grown really big over the past week. I decided to go to work today since paying attention to everything there helped distract me from the news we got and gave me some time to put things in perspective. I’m just taking it easy tonight and at 9 the next episode of LOST is on (the only thing we watch on our “TV”, aka commodore 64 monitor), so that should help for relaxing too. Ok no wait, watching LOST isn’t relaxing at all, maybe I should say “distracting”?
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It seems like there’s some unwritten rule that good news is always followed by something bad. It’s the law. I don’t think I’ve ever something really good happen without someone I know going through something awful. Actually, one of the first times we had Cureiux, Joel played a happy and sad song on the violin, claiming that’s how life works. I’ve never forgotten it.
Hope everything is going to be okay!
October 5th, 2006
*hugs*.
I & my sibs will be at our parents’ over Xmas, so let me know if you’ll be in town around then.
October 5th, 2006