Calm After the storm
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On With the show…
Maureen's POV
The cab ride to the hospital must have been the longest fifteen minutes of my life. This wasn't the first time we had a scare with Megan's asthma but I was still terrified. I was exhausted and overwhelmed; the past few days had been the longest and worst of my life. I had gotten one miracle with Joanne and now I prayed to whoever spared Joanne to spare Megan as well. When I got to the hospital, I asked the nurse at the ER where Megan was and was told that she was on outpatient status and was with her mother in one of the many cubicles in the ER. I found Megan and Joanne pretty quickly and to my relief Megan seemed to be better. Joanne was sitting next to her bed in a wheelchair quietly telling her a story. When Joanne saw me, she said that she had things under control and that I should get some rest. I pulled up a chair and sat down next to Joanne and put my head on her shoulder. She said that the asthma attack had been really bad at first but as soon as they hooked Megan up to the medicine, she started clearing up. Then Megan spoke up, I giggled a little because her voice sounded funny under the mask that she had been wearing that had been delivering her medicine. She asked us to tell her the story of how she had been born. Joanne began telling the story of how we already had two children and she didn't want another and how I secretly had a procedure done to get pregnant again. Joanne was furious at me for days but she eventually got used to the idea and by the time Megan was born, she was as crazy about her as I was. By the time Joanne finished her story, I had fallen asleep with my head on her shoulder. She shook me awake and then firmly told me to go home, that I didn't need to be running myself ragged. So, I picked up the other two girls and we finally headed home. We stopped at McDonalds on the way home to get dinner, I never let the kids eat there but today I was too exhausted to argue with them. When we arrived at the apartment, Rachel and Katie went to eat and I took Megan to her room to get her settled and then brought her dinner on a tray and then finally went to my bedroom and crashed on the bed.
Joanne's POV
After Maureen and the girls had gone home, I made my way to the elevator to go back to my room. I was surprised to find my parents waiting for me in my room. My father and a nurse helped me back into bed and then the nurse propped my legs up on the pillows. After the nurse had left the room, my parents began asking me lot of questions to the point I felt as if we were in court and I was a witness that they were questioning. I finally put an end to this game of twenty questions by saying that I was tired and wanted to rest which was partly the truth. My mother then asked if Maureen needed any help with the children, I told her to stop over at the apartment and just visit with the girls and not to call Maureen. The poor thing was probably resting and I didn't want anyone bothering her with unnecessary phone calls. My parent stayed for a while and we talked while I ate my dinner. They finally left at seven thirty and I turned the TV on and put on my favorite channel CNN. I immediately regretted that decision because the network was still covering the terrorist attacks and the moment I got to the channel they were showing footage of the world trade center collapse. I quickly changed the channel over to one of the other news networks but it was all the same, all they talked about were the terror attacks and I didn't want to hear about them. I clicked over to the channel Maureen always liked, TVLAND. Ironically, they happened to be playing an episode of The Jeffersons. When I was a kid, I used to think that the TV Jeffersons and my family were related and George and Louise became imaginary cousins to me. I relaxed and watched old comedy shows until it was time for lights out. The next morning the doctor came to see me with some very good news. He said that I was healing faster then he thought and that if all went well, I could go home in the next two days. Maureen came to see me later in the day and I told her the good news. She was thrilled and we spent the afternoon slowly walking around in the hallways so that I could learn to use my crutches. Maureen left around supper time and returned with Katie and Rachel (Megan was at home with my mother). She also brought me another surprise: a bucket of fried chicken from KFC which was a great relief after 4 days of disgusting hospital food. We ate dinner together and then watched cartoons for a while before Maureen and the kids left. I fell asleep feeling happy for the first time since the eleventh. I was going home. Finally
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