Retrosexual in action!

Hey Pigpen, I'm dealing with it!

I'm missing my BT forum's and I'll only get one chance now and one later to log on so I thought I'd start a thread to read later tonight.

So last night around 10pm (I'd been asleep for 1/2 hour) my wife wakes me up and she's so sick we need to go to hospital.  A few phone calls and a babysitter later and we're on our way.  She can hardly breathe, it sounds like she's having an asthma attack.  No history of that.  So we get there and because she is 34 weeks preggers it's like we're waving a platinum card.  Voooooop, right in, here you go.  They've got people hooking her up to this and that.  5.5 hours later (yes 3:30am) they decide to keep her overnight and put her in a room.  Baby's fine but they are concerned about her breathing.  She has trachial bronchitis.  Adult form of croup.  Not sure if I spelled croup right but at this point I'm impressing the heck out of myself by being awake.  So I come home and turn my alarm off three minutes before it goes off.  Go to sleep, wake up with the kids (one sick, one just done with it) at 6:30am.  I'm up making breakfast when she calls and says the ENT doctor just saw her and says she can go in a little while.  Then her o.b. comes in and is flipping out.  She insists she stay another night.  So now I'm cleaning house, doing laundry, calling my daughter's school to say she won't be in and finding out what I have to do to get my son ready for his school.  My wife gets a lot of phone calls during the day, especially once "the grapevine" finds out she's in the hospital.  Tons of people offering support (good) but none of which I will accept because I don't want to be responsible for giving this to anyone else (bad).  Did I mention I like to type parenthetically?  Give me a break, I'm running on fumes.

I'm back, my daughter thought she had to puke, but no dice.

So I ask my son if he's feeling up to going to school.  I know he is but I want to make him part of the decision process.  He says, "I need to go because I haven't been in two days and learning is much important."  Visions of Tyrant's posts ran through my head and I told him, "You are definitely going to school."

 So anyway, like Pigpen says, we deal with it.  I may be borderline violating the retro way be even talking about this, but I think this has more to do with feeding my BT addiction.  I figure if I can have the house all clean and housework done when she gets home tomorrow, she'll have time to get ready for the kids' combo b-day party on Saturday?  Yikes!

One last thing, it's a nice sunny day out and temps in the thirties - is training while my wife's in the hospital insensitive?  Hmmmm...

RETROSEXUALS RULE!!!