Creeva’s World 2.0

I was in a meet­ing at work and around 3:45 a call came into my cell phone.   Since the meet­ing was end­ing soon I didn’t even look at the call and sent it straight to voice mail.  As I left the meet­ing a few min­utes later I walked out and saw it was Xie call­ing me.  I called her as I was walk­ing back to the car.   Her mother had her and she was on the way to the hos­pi­tal.  I rushed back to my office and rushed through every­thing I had to get done, get the paper­work filed for the mater­nity leave I was tak­ing and try to rush out there.   Now my hir­ing com­pany (I’m a con­trac­tor) was in town prepar­ing for the fol­low­ing week to do per­for­mance reviews — while I was wait­ing for my boss to show back up they rushed me through my review.   My boss finally appeared and I rushed him through what needed to be known and done, and had the paper­work signed.   Thirty min­utes after talk­ing to Xie I was on the road to home. My com­mute was an hour, then another half hour to the hospital.

When I got home I rushed tak­ing out and feed­ing the pets since I wouldn’t be com­ing back that night.  I also grabbed every­thing Xie and I needed, but she didn’t take with her.   While the dogs were eat­ing I man­aged to get out the announce­ment on the blog that we were head­ing to the hos­pi­tal and things were hap­pen­ing.  I had actu­ally writ­ten that a cou­ple weeks before but had it ready in prepa­ra­tion so that took only a few sec­onds to get it marked as pub­lished.  Every­thing said and done, I was at the hos­pi­tal about two hours after Xie.

When I arrived she was in a stag­ing area, where they get you ready to have a baby.   A room where you are not far enough along to move into the next room.   They had her on med­ica­tions, but she was still feel­ing quite a bit of pain.  Her mother was there com­fort­ing her and feed­ing her ice chips, essen­tially wran­gling it so I couldn’t get in at all.   Now I have stated that I may not always be the most com­fort­ing per­son in the world, but I didn’t have a chance.   At one point Xie inter­jected and pleaded with me to talk to her.   Now I’m nor­mally a guy with too many words and would just keep talk­ing about any­thing and every­thing, but I blanked — and felt like total crap over it.

Con­tin­ued in part 4 com­ing soon