Every Emotion Under the Sun

I thought today was going to be an okay day. It seemed like it was starting out that way. But every minute today brought some sort of change and took my emotions for a roller coaster ride.

Working from home is fairly easy for me because I love being at home. No complaints there. I went to log into my work today and IT had made some changes. So many people are working remotely that it’s putting a strain on our systems. My computer at home wasn’t happy since it’s a Mac and our help desk doesn’t support Macs. Since when? This made me very frustrated but eventually I got it working again, no thanks to the lady from the help desk. Thank goodness.

I happily continued on with my work. A few hours later, I decided to call my son to check on his 1 year old daughter. She’s been very sick and the pics they posted last night were very concerning. Her mama had her at the doctor while he stayed at home with their 3 year old. The news he gave me was even more concerning than the pics. I spent the next hour worrying about her as they waited for more news.

The next time I talked to him, he gave me the news that they were sending her to a children’s hospital over 2 hours away from their home. She has a bone infection. They were able to get the junk out of an abscess in her shoulder but they couldn’t identify the bacteria that’s causing the infection. She will be in the hospital for a few days getting antibiotics through an IV until they figure out what it is and can get her on an oral antibiotic. At this point, I was bawling. That poor sweet little baby.

I was finally able to pull myself together enough to continue working. Again, I was thankful that I’m able to work from home for the time being.

People have been ordering things online so my eBay sales have been good but I wasn’t sure what to do for shipping since our stay at home order has been issued. It turns out that USPS picks up your packages if you have them all paid for, labeled and ready to go. Good deal!! I was able to ship out 2 things today without leaving my house. I was thinking about cancelling all of my listings but now I don’t have to! Yay! That made me smile.

The weather turned out beautiful today which helped a little bit. It got up to 57F. It really helps to have nice weather when you can’t go anywhere. For some reason when it’s dark and gloomy, everything turns into doom and gloom.

And now the president is on the TV again talking about this darn virus. More worrying.

How about one stress-free day? Can we make it happen?