Yesterday John took the day off and took all the kids to the zoo so I could get caught up on my work and on the way home he got really really sick. He called me saying he was stuck in traffic but going to try to get home. Within 15 minutes he went downhill and was getting off at the next exit to go to the ER. By the time he got there he could barely walk or talk and managed to stumble into the waiting room with all 4 of the kids to get some help. Kneeling in pain on the floor other patients started yelling for help and they still made him find his cards and check in with insurance information before they saw him (thanks Lakeview). They got him back to a room and had the kids sit in the waiting room unattended waiting for someone to hopefully come get them.
In the chaos of the mess someone handed Sam all the cards they had used to check John in and given the kids all coloring books and crayons but still left them all just sitting in a corner of the waiting room!! Emma's only 9!
I got a ride down to Lakeview with my mom and we took the wrong door in and found John first without the kids. He said he'd left them and no one knew where they were. Talk about absolute sick frightening feeling!!
We did track them down in the waiting room, not even 5 minutes later and I have to say that was a very very long 5 minutes.
John ended up with a kidney stone and was treated and sent home, all the kids were sent home with nana and we all met up again later that night. Pieces of the story started coming out and apparently some blond lady decided to try to kind of take care of the kids, she was with another patient in the waiting room while 2 different sets of other patients had to yell at the nurses to pick John up off the floor and get him back to get help!
The scary part is that this blond lady got the kids to trust her more than I would like them to. She gave them gifts and went to her car, trying to convince them to go out there with her to find "stuff to play with". She got them treats, and sat with them, hugging a crying Sam and talking to all of them. Thank goodness the kids had listened and Emma wouldn't let anyone leave the waiting room to go with her. I'm sure she was well intentioned, but it scares me to think of what she could have been like. The interesting thing is that when we all got home and settled we discovered that John's credit card was missing from that stack. I'd like to think she was just being nice and trying to help out, but another warning to watch out and not trust anyone I guess.
John is finally on the mend with the kidney stone passed. Kids are all in bed tucked in safely for the night and I am thoroughly exhausted from another challenge of a weekend!!
Now I'm off to start packing for a 5 day trip to the Uintah's. Wish us luck up there, somehow I don't feel as scared of bears and racoons as I do of strange blond women in ER waiting rooms.
We got all dressed up for our Primary Program on Sunday! Zeke kept running away from the camera but I did manage to get one darling little shot of the 3 with their tongues out. It was a great program that brought me to tears when all those darling little kids were singing that they knew they were children of God. Nothing seems to speak louder than the testimony of a child!
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