Really Bad Day

When the phone rings at 2 AM it’s never good news. Our phone rang and my wife’s sister was calling from the hospital, my wife’s mother was having an emergency appendectomy. At five we heard that she had had successful surgery and that she was in recovery. We all got some sleep finally and then went to the hospital. My mother-in-law was in a room. and also in the same hospital My aunt was in a room with serious health problems. I went up a couple of floors and visited with my aunt who was undergoing dialysis at at the time. She is not well. after a short visit, I went back down to my mother-in-laws room. she had been taken for an upper G.I.
soon the results came back that she also had a perforated ulcer and needed immediate surgery. So she went into surgery at 4PM. My wife and and I had to go home because we had a very sick dog at home and we we had an appointment for a vet to make a house call to euthanize our dog.
We have just gone through the emotional trauma of putting our dog down. My mother -in-law just got out of surgery and is in recovery. the doctors found the ulcer and biopsied it, but didn’t find the perforation. and put in a shunt. In a word today has sucked.