This morning I took sweet pea to the fields behind my house. I park in about the center and then essentially walk a lumpy figure 8. We had just returned to the center and started on the second loop when my phone rings and it’s husband calling. Okay this is unusual. I inhale sharply and answer. We get disconnected. I stop walking and call him back 3 times. They all eventually go to voicemail. I look at sweet pea, and we turn back towards the car and a million scenarios are running through my head and I wonder if he’ll be dead on the floor when I arrive and then I stop in my tracks. And I think to myself. CHECK IN AND SEE HOW YOU’RE FEELING ABOUT THIS. And the voice in my head said NO MATTER WHAT I’M GOING TO BE OKAY
Then I jumped in the car and sped back to discover him lying on the bedroom floor. He had fallen trying to pick up a pair of shorts from the floor. He said “I think every time I bend over I fall down so I probably shouldn’t bend over anymore.” It came out of him in the saddest most pathetic way possible. In my head I was thinking NO KIDDING? YA THINK?? but I didn’t say that out loud and it did totally break my heart.
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