Riding the Roller Coaster

It continues to be an interesting ride with emotions always up and down. The house which we maintained so lovingly the first few days, has rather been on it's own since Meltdown as we adjust to the reality of surgery and upcoming Chemo. I did get the floors swept, a bed changed, kitchen cleaned and Gavin walked before Tess, Gavin and I headed out to get stamps and gauze.

Then, on the spur of the moment we headed off to check out Costco. Much of the food people have brought to us has been from there and Tess and Jamie are considering a membership. Sometimes the volitility of emotions means you take advantage of whatever sounds fun and you go. Tess had no wallet, purse, etc. with her :), we had no diapers for Gavin, did we turn off the coffeepot at the house?. But off we went. Well, one thing led to another. We had lunch at Panera, we called Jamie to join us, then checked out Playland and played cars on the floor with Gavin until poopy diapers reminded us it was time to head home.

Oh-oh. Car wouldn't start. Funny noise coming from the back hatch door which obviously had run the battery down. Tess heads to Panera to ask who might have a pair of jumper cables in their car. No one. I try to call Tom to have him find my other purse in my clothes closet that has the AAA card in it. Wellll, you can imagine how that conversation went. The purse with the squiggles on it?? No, the red one with the blue handles. The soft one? No, the Coach one. Coach???? What color is that?

Tess had better luck. Not at Panera. She bombed out there but headed across the street to IHop where she saw a 40-yr. old African American lady pulling up. "Do you have jumper cables?"

"I sure do, sweetie. Do you need a jump?"

"Yes. My mother has my toddler who has poopy pants and the battery is dead and no one at Panera had cables"

"Let's talk about this for a minute. None of those white people at Panera are going to help you. Just have faith and we will get you going. So how has the rest of your month been?"

"Not so good. I just found out I have cancer."

"Well, honey. I'm a cancer survivor and you just keep the faith and you will be too. I'm Anita, and you just watch. Now about this car. Pretty soon you'll see my husband come running out of IHop with his hands in the air, saying "What are you doing, woman?" He thinks I can't jump a car, but I can."

Which he did exclaiming, "What are you women doing in this heat messing with cars?" He chased the women out of his way and got the car running. I still had not showed up, being around the corner trying to steer Tom to the right purse in the right closet corner.

"Do you want me to go find your son and mother?"

"No, no. She can't leave without me and I can't leave the car. She'll show up."

I did. Then on the way home, lights twinkled, little stressful ones like brake and battery. But we got home, had tea and to heck with cars, jumper cables and poopy diapers.

Just have faith.