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dragonlady7When I am awoken in the middle of the night by a phone ringing, my first reaction is an automatic, instinctive assumption that it's actually for me, and that something terrible has happened. So I lurch out of bed in a panic and go answer the phone. When the wrong number gruffly hangs up (they're never apologetic at 3:45 am. Never) I bewilderedly blink, take a deep breath to slow my heartbeat, and only then am I pissed off at them-- but mostly I'm relieved that it wasn't, after all, the end of the world.
But I didn't have the luxury of getting pissed off and relieved last night. When I lurched to the kitchen table where I'd left my cellphone (i charge it during the day at work because it only takes an hour or two to charge even when the battery's drained) I noticed that the number on the caller ID screen was a 716 area code. Dave's folks.
It was Dave's mom, in tears, trying to collect herself, asking for Dave.
His father was in a boating accident in Canada last night. Fell overboard, hit his head. Nothing anyone could do.
His body is nine hours away from home. They don't know how long it will take to get him home.
We can't do anything but wait here.
We were just there this weekend and saw him and everyone and he made the most delicious smoked turkey I'd ever had, and we had a great time.
I don't really know what to do, but I have to go into work to put things in order. Dave's not going anywhere. He's taking it largely in silence, but there's nothing else to do. Screaming and crying won't change anything.
So I'm going in this morning, leaving Dave my cellphone (as his doesn't work) and taking Dave's car to run all the errands I think need to be done, so that we'll be ready whenever the call comes to go. Dave's mom is surrounded by family already, even though both of her children are far away, so at least she's not alone.
I just have no idea what to do. It's not the kind of situation you can prepare for.
At least I'd given Dave's mom my cellphone number and informed them that Dave's cellphone hasn't worked in months, so that the call did eventually get through. Otherwise I don't know how he could have gotten the message.
But I didn't have the luxury of getting pissed off and relieved last night. When I lurched to the kitchen table where I'd left my cellphone (i charge it during the day at work because it only takes an hour or two to charge even when the battery's drained) I noticed that the number on the caller ID screen was a 716 area code. Dave's folks.
It was Dave's mom, in tears, trying to collect herself, asking for Dave.
His father was in a boating accident in Canada last night. Fell overboard, hit his head. Nothing anyone could do.
His body is nine hours away from home. They don't know how long it will take to get him home.
We can't do anything but wait here.
We were just there this weekend and saw him and everyone and he made the most delicious smoked turkey I'd ever had, and we had a great time.
I don't really know what to do, but I have to go into work to put things in order. Dave's not going anywhere. He's taking it largely in silence, but there's nothing else to do. Screaming and crying won't change anything.
So I'm going in this morning, leaving Dave my cellphone (as his doesn't work) and taking Dave's car to run all the errands I think need to be done, so that we'll be ready whenever the call comes to go. Dave's mom is surrounded by family already, even though both of her children are far away, so at least she's not alone.
I just have no idea what to do. It's not the kind of situation you can prepare for.
At least I'd given Dave's mom my cellphone number and informed them that Dave's cellphone hasn't worked in months, so that the call did eventually get through. Otherwise I don't know how he could have gotten the message.
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Date: 2003-05-13 05:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-13 07:17 am (UTC)I just heard about dave's father. I'm going over there today, please e-mail me your cellphone number, and let me know what I can do. cmp22@acsu.buffalo.edu.
Sorry for contacting you this way, but it was the only way I knew how.
Chris Pannozzo