Rant #3,146; The Show Must Go On

My mom remains in the hospital.

She had another test late yesterday, and we still await word on when she can come home.

My wife feels a little dizzy today, and hopefully, like on other days since she had her accident, that will burn off and she will be OK for the remainder of the day.

I feel a different kind of dizzy, because I have to cover a conference today, a meeting that in lieu of the current circumstances with my family, could not have come at a worse time.

I have so many things to do with my wife and mother ailing, that to take out time to listen to such a meeting—and then have to carve out even more time to write something up about it, and have it finished sometime today—really puts me in a bind.

I will be able to do it, but you can pretty much throw today down the drain, as it will take up most of my day, along with the other things I have to do, and it will probably prevent me from seeing my mother today.

That bothers me, but that is the way it is, and if I can get through today, I think everything will be all right—

Until next week, when I have another conference to do.

The only good thing about that is that hopefully by that time, we will have a better bead on my mother, and she will presumably be home.

Right now, everything is like an abyss, and I just have to get to the end of it in my own brain and then, everything will settle down a bit.

It is funny that I use the word “abyss,” because with all of the construction at the hospital that my mother is at, you really have to learn to navigate an actual “abyss” to get to her room, and then to exit when you are leaving.

I am getting better at my navigation, but that is not a good sign, as it only means that my mother has been in the hospital too long and that I am starting to get used to the ins and outs of the place.

I don’t want to get used to all that; I want her home.

And I want my wife to continue to improve in her condition, which is happening, but in very small doses.

Every day is different, there is no consistency from one day to another, but I think the prognosis is good as she navigates her own abyss.

We didn’t do much for our anniversary yesterday, as I had plenty of work to do and after that was done, I went to the hospital for a few hours.

Hopefully, we can do something this weekend, and there are some good things to look forward to in the coming days.

Today, the pool man will be here, and hopefully, he will be able to prepare our pool for the summer, and we can use it when everything slows down (and the weather heats up).

And then, this weekend, my son gets his trophy for being a member of the first-place team in his bowling league, and that will be a lot of fun to be a part of.

He and the other members of his team deserve that trophy—they have been a team for several years now—and I can’t wait to see the looks on their faces—and hear the cheers--when they get their awards.

It should be a fun moment, and certainly take me away from the misery the past few weeks have been.

But let’s not put the cart before the horse.

I have to get through this meeting today and then everything will be fine, at least for now, on my end.

My wife has to get through another day, and my mother needs to keep her chipper attitude as she goes through one test after another.

And then we will all reach the finish line of what is going on now, and everything will return back to what is normal for our family … which is pretty much a “new” normal for us.

I just don’t think everything will get back to the old normal any time soon, but I think we can all live with a ‘new” normal, as long as we are given the opportunity.

In show business, they say “The Show Must Go On,” and it is the same for our current lives.

Our show will hopefully go on, but the recent events my wife and mother have gone through belie the fact that I don’t think that things will be exactly the same, but we can certainly get through that after what the two of them have been through.

Onward and upward!