Been one of those days

I have not had a good day today. It's started out pretty good until about 7:30 am when my sister in law called to say my father in law was in the hospital. Rushed by ambulance at 4 am. He wasn't seen at the ER until 10:30 at which time we found out he has a leg infection and most likely pneumonia. Now two weeks ago my husband and I paid for my in laws to go on a cruise which will be occurring in two weeks. I hope he will be better by then, I did buy the insurance but I would rather they actually took the cruise. My FIL is not a well man his wife and daughter keep telling me. I do believe them, he had a heart attack a few years ago and he has type 2 diabetes which is why I'm particularly nervous about the leg infection. He always wanted to go on a cruise and we felt that we should send him while he was somewhat able to enjoy it. I had to practially force my husband to go down to visit him. He kept asking me what he should do and I kept saying, "go see your father" but I think he wanted me to tell him to stay at work and not worry about it.

Now in addition to my family issues (which there always are some) my damn dog has been doing this weird nose/cough thing. I called the Vet and they told me to come in at 1:30. On the phone they said it might be kennel cough. I got there and they asked if I could wait outside since the dog might be contagious. Then they came out and asked if I could wait in the car with the windows up and air on so she wouldn't make the sidewalk sick. I explained that she had had this for two weeks and it was my understanding the the incubation period was a couple days. Didn't matter, had to get in my car. When they finally brought her in the Vet determined that she's fine and will probably make that nose noise occasionally forever. "It's like a backward sneeze." she explained. $60 to diagnose a backward sneeze and be treated like a leper! WTF!

Along with all this fun I received in the mail the response to my call to my oldest son's camp. The past three years I have sent him to a two week camp which costs $600. No small change but he likes it so we manage. This year my youngest had a fever while he was at the first week of camp so of course he was sick with "flu like symptoms" the second week. And then the youngest got the fever back for the third week of July. I was ready to kill someone by the end of it all. Anyhoo, I basically paid $600 for 1 week of camp. I asked if he could just make up the week and they said no. I called twice to discuss it and they finally got around to calling me back to tell me that I'm basically shit out of luck and they will send me a copy of the form I signed which explains there are no refunds. I was thinking about sending my youngest there too next Summer but now I am so annoyed I'm not sure I want to give them anymore money. I wasn't even asking for the f-ing money back! I just wanted my kid to have a second week of camp. They are full? It's f-ing OUTDOORS! There isn't a firecode of maximum occupancy in the woods!

I know there are people out there with worse problems than me and trust me I have had much worse problems than this but sometimes you feel like yelling UNCLE! I hate when you start out happy and slowly but surely the world consipres to piss you off. This summer has pretty much sucked. I have a vacation planned in a couple of weeks and I am just waiting for a tornado to come through and ruin it. School starts in 3 1/2 weeks and I'm not ready. This summer has included three weeks of illness, a funeral which I had to travel for, and lowest tempertures and most amount of rain we have EVER had! I want some carefree happy days! I want to have something go easy! I know there are those "think positive" bullshit people out there but I will think positive until something makes me negative. Wine thirty can't get here fast enough.