OMG at this day already.
Plan for today:
5:45 get up/shower/dress/etc.
6:15 get the kids up/dressed/fed/etc.
7:00 drive Wooz to school, drop DS at daycare
8:00 leave for my mom's with two frozen meals and a Tupperware of homemade applesauce (since she couldn't go apple picking this year, and also isn't allowed to eat raw fruits and veggies)
9:30 arrive at my mom's
10:00 appointment with surgeon re: double mastectomy
11:00/11:30 lunch with mom
2:00/3:00 arrive back home, run errands, straighten up, start a new batch of homemade applesauce, etc. Pick the kids up, play, homework, dinner, reading...
Actual today:
5:36 text from my mom; she is running a 101.2 fever and is supposed to call her oncologist for anything >100. Surgeon appointment is on standby because she may be on house arrest until her fever breaks and her white count improves.
5:45 get up/shower/dress/etc.
6:07 wake Wooz up, break the news that I can't drive her after all and we need to get dressed for the bus stop; much crying about "but you saaaaaaid you would drive meeeeeeee!"
6:08 by some miracle, DS is up on his own and gets dressed without a fight
6:30 put Wooz on the bus
6:48 text from my mom re: whether she should page her onocologist; I say if she doesn't feel it's an emergency, I would probably wait for the office to open (8:00)
7:07 leave for work, two accidents en route
7:40 arrive at work
8:02 phone rings; I think it's my mom with news about whether her oncologist has grounded her and what we are going to do today, but it is DH calling from the auto shop. After he dropped DS, he got on the interstate and smoke started coming out from under the hood. He pulled off and managed to make it to a random Meineke, who found that the radiator is cracked on the Honda. They're checking it out now, to see if anything else needs to done. Minimum $500, more if the head gasket etc. needs work. At least DS was already at DC.
8:20 onward: ???
Also, being at work when you planned to be off sucks. I can't cancel my PTO today until I hear back from my mom, who is waiting on her oncologist, so I'm just in this weird limbo at the moment. Three people have already said "I thought you were off today?" Yeah, me too.
I hope my mom is okay. Probably just some random bug. Chemo is bad for cancer cells (yay), but not so kind to your white blood cells (boo).
Update: just got a text from my mom asking me to come anyway. Adios, WW.