Memorial weekend we were moving my son and his wife and child out of their condo and into their new home, and moving my daughter and her husband out of their apartment and into a new one when, in the midst of moving both of them, we got a call letting us know that my father-in-law was getting taken by ambulance to the emergency room in Idaho due to a back injury. So before the weekend was over we had him on a plane to Utah along with my mother-in-law so we could help take care of him and to find a good surgeon to operate on his spine.<\/p>\n
The first week of June was spent going from one medical office to another to get examined by a surgeon that could treat him, running him to physical therapy, going to the medical supply companies to get a wheelchair and a walker, and picking up medications, and hours and hours of making phone calls to his insurance company get all the authorizations needed for him to be able to have surgery the following week.<\/p>\n
The start of the second week of June was spent making phone calls to setup the surgery with the hospital and to setup the home healthcare team that would need to work with him after surgery. Then Wednesday at 6:45am we arrived at the hospital for surgery and spend the day with him until that night when we went home to begin the work of finding and setting up an aftercare facility that could provide 24 hour assistance for him as he is recovering. Thursday we were back at the hospital until we checked him out late that night and we took he and my mother-in-law to get them settled into the aftercare facility.\u00a0 It was incredibly late Thursday night when we finally set out for home only to get a text message saying that our daughter-in-law had just gone into labor and was going to the hospital to have her baby.\u00a0 Sleeping was not an option at that point\u2026<\/p>\n
Friday morning we were back at the hospital to welcome my second grandchild but first granddaughter, Magnolia Rees Anderson (\u201cMaggie\u201d for short) into the world.\u00a0 As we were at the hospital enjoying some time holding this sweet new granddaughter we got a phone call telling us that we needed to come back to the aftercare facility to get my father-in-law and take him to the Emergency Room.\u00a0 So back we went to get him and bring him to the ER of the very hospital our daughter-in-law and son were in with their new baby and we ended up going back and forth from the ER to the maternity ward. The following day when my daughter-in-law was released from the hospital we headed over to help her family get settled at home and feed them dinner. Then we headed back to the aftercare facility to check on the in-laws. And finally I ran to my parents\u2019 home to see my brother and his wife and four kids who\u2019ve all flown in for a visit.<\/p>\n
You\u2019d think after all that craziness we\u2019d catch a break but this week I\u2019ll be helping tend my almost two year old grandson so my daughter-in-law can recover from having her baby, I\u2019ve got a sister and her husband flying in to stay with me, and I have another brother with his wife and kids all coming to town for their son\u2019s wedding this week that I\u2019ve been helping to plan, and I\u2019m in charge of hosting a big family get-together at my home. And, of course, we are still helping out witis h my in-laws.<\/p>\n
Could my life be any crazier?!?!?\u00a0 It\u2019s literally been one thing after another after another non-stop and the scariest part is knowing I haven\u2019t had two seconds to read or respond to any emails, or return phone calls, or go to the office since Memorial weekend when, as I shared before and in the words of Will Smith, \u201cMy life got flipped turned upside down!\u201d<\/p>\n
When will it flip back? I have no idea.\u00a0 Soon I hope because I am exhausted… But maybe, just maybe, it takes everything being upside down for us to start to see things right\u2026.<\/p>\n