Vacation Sable Style
1. Plan vacation in April to happen at thanksgiving.
2. Spend all of summer and fall with at least 2 Sables ill (one self-induced, one because of the self induced and one from yelling at self-induced)
3. Finally convince self-induced that she needs someone in daily to help take care of her (one of my family members who is skilled, kind, classically and emotionally intelligent)
4. Wednesday night before thanksgiving day departure take self-induced to the hospital with CHF exacerbation
**at this point self-induced (MIL if you hadn’t figured it out) is safer in the hospital, in CCU and taking lots of fluid off**
5. Decision made to GO ANYWAY (MIL spends Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the hospital - which was perfect. I plan to ask the hospital if we can just check her in every time we need a break)
6. Watch The Boys get their asses handed to them
7. Chill and have fun anyway
8. Come home and pick up self-induced who is now on O2 likely permanently but pretending it’s until she gets better
9. Big going from relaxed to controlled rage in 30 minutes flat
Moral to the story - go anyway. Second lesson never forget how hard it is to take care of someone and when this is over listen carefully to people who are doing the same. Figure out a way to help, if only for 5 minutes. 5 minutes of no one needing you can be enough to get you through the next thing.
Now the fun highlight. I got upgraded to a Dodge Charger and spent 3 day’s with my foot in the carburetor. There is precious little as sexy as the growl of a an American muscle car.
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