Shop Till You Drop
If ever you thought that fainting is like Swan Lake's dying swan, just quickly discard that thought, because believe me, it is more like one of Quinton Tarantino's gory movies.
Prior to Saturday, I was not feeling well and could feel that my body was telling me something major was about to happen to me. Take note - listen when your body speaks, because if you don't, it is going to come back to bite you in the you know where - literally and figuratively.
Anyway in the early hours of Saturday morning, the bathroom was calling me with vengeance and I was not sure if I was suppose to sit or stand. Anyhow, whatever was wanting to get out of me, got out, both through the backdoor and the front door at the same time.
PS - are you still with me on this, or are you on the floor rolling with laughter?
This went on for a while and then I cleaned myself up and got back into bed only to be joined a few minutes later by my daughter and grandniece who insisted that they wanted to lie next to me and all I wanted, was to be left alone. I guess children just don't understand the concept of leave me alone when you are ill. I do however believe they feel scared when a parent is ill and try to play it off as though nothing is wrong.
Anyway after a while, I got a call to drop daughter off for a braai (BBQ) and as sick as I was I decided to do just that as that way I would have her out of my hair for a while and I could rest.
Little did I know that a short while later I would be flat out on the supermarket floor in a pool of bodily fluids (saving the gory description for the sensitive readers) with the store manager trying to help me off the floor into a wheelchair. He asked me if he could call my husband. And as I managed to answer him all I could think was - does there always have to be a husband. When I said no, he asked if there was anyone else he could call. I called my friend who I had just come from dropping off my daughter with and who has been around through many thick and thin moments over at least the past 21 years to come and assist me. I suggested that she bring someone along to drive my car as I was in no position to do so. In no time she was there along with her daughter and my daughter.
When I looked back at that moment with her daughter pushing me in the wheelchair to the car, I thought of the irony of the situation. Many years ago the friendship did not exist as we were rivals (the two women, one man scenario i.e. my daughter's father). I made the choice when my daughter was born that I was not going to be nasty with the person my daughter's father was seeing as the chances were that my baby was going to be spending a lot of time in her company and I would hope that she would treat my child right. Today she is no longer with my daughter's father and we have remained friends and have become part of each other's families. Along the way we have included my daughter's brother's mother into the friend circle - now we are XXX's.
Some people might think I must be crazy to do the things I do, but this is who I am. No point in preaching peace and harmony if you are not prepared to live it. There are however some people who I have blocked from ever entering into my space again because I do not need their selfish attitudes.
I guess fainting made me realise that, I have to be open to strangers' help and being grateful for the friends and family I have in my time of need.
NOTE TO SELF: Never shop when you are gravely ill, stay home.
Little did I know that a short while later I would be flat out on the supermarket floor in a pool of bodily fluids (saving the gory description for the sensitive readers) with the store manager trying to help me off the floor into a wheelchair. He asked me if he could call my husband. And as I managed to answer him all I could think was - does there always have to be a husband. When I said no, he asked if there was anyone else he could call. I called my friend who I had just come from dropping off my daughter with and who has been around through many thick and thin moments over at least the past 21 years to come and assist me. I suggested that she bring someone along to drive my car as I was in no position to do so. In no time she was there along with her daughter and my daughter.
When I looked back at that moment with her daughter pushing me in the wheelchair to the car, I thought of the irony of the situation. Many years ago the friendship did not exist as we were rivals (the two women, one man scenario i.e. my daughter's father). I made the choice when my daughter was born that I was not going to be nasty with the person my daughter's father was seeing as the chances were that my baby was going to be spending a lot of time in her company and I would hope that she would treat my child right. Today she is no longer with my daughter's father and we have remained friends and have become part of each other's families. Along the way we have included my daughter's brother's mother into the friend circle - now we are XXX's.
Some people might think I must be crazy to do the things I do, but this is who I am. No point in preaching peace and harmony if you are not prepared to live it. There are however some people who I have blocked from ever entering into my space again because I do not need their selfish attitudes.
I guess fainting made me realise that, I have to be open to strangers' help and being grateful for the friends and family I have in my time of need.
NOTE TO SELF: Never shop when you are gravely ill, stay home.
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