Of COURSE she made it alright!
08/13/2008 03:53 p.m.

So I finally heard Kate's exasperated voice telling me she was safely with my oldest son and they were nearly to Astoria (where he lives). I had to apologize for being so ridiculously anxious. I don't know why anxiety gripped me yesterday, but boy the grasp was ferocious and I seemed to have little defense. It was unreasonable even. The feelings I experienced were so foreign I barely recognized myself. I mean, letting the kids create their own experiences without me being obsessively worried...that is my forte' as a Mother!!! It's something I didn't even have to work hard to accomplish! So me feeling worried was a new experience for all of us.

Anyway, she made it there safe, and no weirdo stories, so it's all good!

As for Meme - her Dr's appt and everything else we had to do yesterday went very smoothly. I was pretty pleased because I didn't fall asleep while I was driving. We left here at around 6:30, got there just after the lab opened at 8:00, got her tests done, got to her Dr's office about 25 minutes early. They took her right in. She has a raging bladder infection. She told the medical assistant that she thought she'd had it for about 2 weeks. Well, that stinker didn't tell ME until last Friday night, and when I asked her why she didn't tell me sooner, she said, "I just kept thinking it would go away." So she got Lecture #293 about how she HAS to tell me at the beginning so we can catch it before it moves to her kidneys.

She also has a sinus infection as well as bronchitis, which I sort of suspected since almost everyone here at home has had the sinus infection and she developed a juicy-sounding cough almost right away. The Dr. said it wasn't pneumonia yet, but she was on her way. I guess with the bladder infection going on, her immune system was just too weak to keep the sinus infection from traveling to her lungs. So now I have saline treatments to do three times a day and inhalers two times a day. But only for a couple of weeks.

We were home by noon. So I had enough time to get Kate some mace and be the one to take her to the Greyhound station, which made me pretty happy. The only frustrating part is that, in Portland, Kate had to empty her pockets and they took the mace. :-( I guess it should have occured to me that a passenger couldn't carry mace on the bus. Well, thankfully, she didn't end up needing it.

AND I got a good night's sleep last night, so I'm not feeling quite as punchy as I did yesterday. yay.


I am currently Better
I am listening to Nina chew her rawhide