Worse Valentine’s Day Story - Love, Death & Life

Posted by admin on February 7, 2008

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Love, Death & Life
By Mattmak

I think the absolute worst Valentine’s Day I ever had was February 14, 2006. My husband had left me at the beginning of January and we had decided that we would spend time together for Valentine’s Day to see if our problems could be resolved. At that point we had been married 10 years. Before the alarm clock could go off to wake me for work, my daughter, who at that time was 9 years old, woke me screaming. She was in so much pain in the left side of her abdomen. I got up and began dressing and preparing to leave for the emergency room when my phone began ringing and it was my mother informing me that my grandmother had been admitted to the hospital with not much chance of survival. I let her know that I too was leaving for the hospital with my daughter she said she would see me there. My grandmother practically raised me growing up and I lived beside of her for years and still live beside the house that was once hers. After reaching the emergency room they began a series of tests. I called my husband at this point to tell him what was going on and that I felt that he needed to come to the emergency room. We discovered my daughter had kidney stones and that my grandmother had sepsis. We spent 16 hours in the emergency room with our daughter and our time together went right out the door. Fortunately, we have since then reconciled and our daughter has had several attacks of kidney stones. My grandmother passed away on March 6, 2006. For a day that held such promise it ended in absolute disaster and uncertainty. Now it is 2008 and a week away from Valentine’s Day and my husband and I had thought we would do something special this year. However, I am leaving soon to go to the burial of one of my very best friends and our financial situation is rapidly deteriorating. Perhaps one day I will have a nice Valentine’s Day but it has not been in the cards for me recently. This contest would at least supply us a way to go out to eat or catch a movie but if I do not win I know that I have at least tried. Thank you for the opportunity.