Harried Day

It's been ONE of

THOSE days...

After getting my kids off to school I hurried home to do Rilyn's (4) hair and read through the Ensign. We got the necessary things accomplished and rushed off for our first appointment. Visiting Teaching had to get done before the rest of the kids get out of school on Thursday.

I met up with my companion outside Leah's house and we knocked and were invited in. While visiting Tyler and Rilyn had a hard time sitting still, but not too bad (just enough to make their Mom crazy). We had a good visit and then went to the Tracey's house. Tracey is so fun and easy to talk to. My kids took right to her kids and they all went out in back to play while the Mom's visited. We had a great visit and I head home to grab my purse and use the bathroom before we run to Walmart.

I wanted to run to and get some cookies for Janice and Larisa (2 separate families) who are moving within the week and take them over. When I get home to get my purse, I realize my phone is blinking with a message on it. I check my message and it is the Imaging/Radiology place where I got my x-ray and CT Scan yesterday. The message was to call them ASAP. At first I thought no problem, but then I realize they'd tried me on my cell too and panic set in.

All of a sudden I was so worried that though my scans and x-ray were to check for kidney stones (which showed 2 of them on the right side) that they also found something terrible like cancer or something! I called them back immediately and got their answering machine. As I was giving the rundown to Laren's work voicemail a call came in. It was the radiology place calling to tell me they sent me home with the x-ray before the radiologist had a chance to write the report.

At the request of my doctor, I was hand delivering the x-ray film and the cd with the CT Scans. Apparently I had the ONLY copy of the film and that was their desperation! In the midst of all of this I got scared and worried that maybe there was something more seriously wrong with me.

Thankfully I got over it rather quickly because I was only left to worry for 5 minutes or so before they called me back. Common sense even told me that the radiology place probably wouldn't be the bearer of bad news, if there were some, it would be the doctor at his office. But at that moment of desperation, I was too panicked to trust myself on that!

If that was not enough, after arriving home from the store I had another scare. I had laid Tyler down for his nap; he was fussy and tired and he had eaten a granola bar and half a donut that I bought for him and Rilyn to share on the way home from the store. I figured that was lunch enough until after his nap. (Good Mom that I am! LOL)

Rilyn was in the basement playing with her toys and I was in the kitchen making me some steamed cauliflower for lunch. I was getting ready to take out the trash while the vegetables were cooking. I started smelling this strong smell of burning smell. I just couldn't shake it. So after a minute or so (maybe even less) of smelling this horrific smell my instincts kicked in to get the kids and get out! So we did.

I ran up and got Tyler while calling for Rilyn. We all got out in the van safely and I grabbed my purse, keys and phone on the way out. Funny how it is, I ran back in to get my cauliflower so I could eat something healthy for lunch in case my house burned down or something. Weird that I did that?!!

As we were back out of the driveway I called 911. In a matter of 8 minutes or so a firetruck arrived with lights and sirens followed by a police car and another firetruck. (It's nice to know that Vonage does work with 911 calls on my phone!)

I got out of my van that was parked next to my neighbors house to talk to them and tell them what was going on. They went in with their gear to check it out. I noticed them turning the fire hydrant on acrossed the street. My neighbor Hap called to see if we were alright and if he could help. My neighbor Cindy came from acrossed the street to see if she could help or give us shelter from the rain.

I declined their offers of help and told them we were fine. I had called Laren at work and left a message for him telling him what was going on when I was waiting for the firetrucks to arrive. He called back when I was acrossed the street talking to Cindy. Rilyn answered the phone in the van when she heard it ringing. And when she went to open the van door to tell me Laren was on the phone the car alarm sounded.

I ran over and put my key in the door to turn off the alarm and answered the phone. By this time I had talked to the firemen who assured me everything was fine that they had checked the house out on every level and nothing was burning. It was determined, because it is a rainy day, some homes a distance away on acreage had been burning something and the smell wafted into my house when I opened the garage and came in.

Laren was all but laughing at me for calling 911. The firemen were very kind and I expressed to them my appreciation and embarassment in which they responded with no problem, that I did the right thing. They told me to just tell my neighbors I was having a party and invited the firemen over with their disco lights. Honestly ALL that I could think of when I called 911 was that the smell of something burning is strong and I must get my babies to safety!!

I think I'm calmed down now. I've had 2 heartstopping incidents today. I just had to come and blog about it and unwind a bit. Hopefully life will not be nearly so alarming tomorrow. I really need to sit down with myself and write my talk.

Thanks for all your great comments of things to consider for my talk. I do not know why Blogger disabled my comments on yesterday's post.