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Weekend plans - thwarted
Feb. 13th, 2005 08:09 amNot that those plans were sensational or anything. Quite the contrary, actually. I'd planned to retire into my flat and catch up on sleep and be disgustingly lazy, a pleasure I haven't had in weeks.
But on Thursday night my brother called, telling me that my older nephew, Markus is in hospital, with myocarditis of all things. So Thursday evening was spent on the phone, mostly to help brother calm down. On Friday morning, nephew was transferred to hospital in Vienna, since the doctor wanted him to undergo an examination they can't do in Tulln. There was a 5% risk that it might have been an infarctus after all, and he wanted to exclude that.
Since Daniel went to see his brother in the afternoon, and Markus's girlfriend Caro was there in the evening, I grudgingly gave up on my plans and went to visit yesterday in the late morning. Stayed there for 2 1/2 hours until my brother arrived. We actually had a good time. The examination hadn't shown anything, and so the young man was full of optimism and projects for the future.
I asked him how he'd gotten himself into this predicament - knowing that he'd caught some intestinal virus 10 days or so ago, but assuming that he hadn't been so stupid as to go running or anything while still weak. "Well," he said, "you know Caro's period was due the next day, and with me being ill we hadn't done it in so many days, and I suppose I overdid the fucking a little."
I know I should have given him sage advice, as aunts are bound to do, but I just found it so funny.
So let's see whether today is going to be an indoor day (would be nice, because it's raining and windy outside) but I somehow doubt that.
Anyway, this week I'll get a day off, as will the whole department, because the ministry is being moved to another (much nicer) building and they don't want us to get in the movers' way. New office building is only 100 metres away from the old one, recently renovated, and I'm really looking forward to working there, as there's parquet floor instead of hideous carpets, there's still neon light, but yellow instead of white, and we'll have flat screens. Definitely an all-around improvement.
But on Thursday night my brother called, telling me that my older nephew, Markus is in hospital, with myocarditis of all things. So Thursday evening was spent on the phone, mostly to help brother calm down. On Friday morning, nephew was transferred to hospital in Vienna, since the doctor wanted him to undergo an examination they can't do in Tulln. There was a 5% risk that it might have been an infarctus after all, and he wanted to exclude that.
Since Daniel went to see his brother in the afternoon, and Markus's girlfriend Caro was there in the evening, I grudgingly gave up on my plans and went to visit yesterday in the late morning. Stayed there for 2 1/2 hours until my brother arrived. We actually had a good time. The examination hadn't shown anything, and so the young man was full of optimism and projects for the future.
I asked him how he'd gotten himself into this predicament - knowing that he'd caught some intestinal virus 10 days or so ago, but assuming that he hadn't been so stupid as to go running or anything while still weak. "Well," he said, "you know Caro's period was due the next day, and with me being ill we hadn't done it in so many days, and I suppose I overdid the fucking a little."
I know I should have given him sage advice, as aunts are bound to do, but I just found it so funny.
So let's see whether today is going to be an indoor day (would be nice, because it's raining and windy outside) but I somehow doubt that.
Anyway, this week I'll get a day off, as will the whole department, because the ministry is being moved to another (much nicer) building and they don't want us to get in the movers' way. New office building is only 100 metres away from the old one, recently renovated, and I'm really looking forward to working there, as there's parquet floor instead of hideous carpets, there's still neon light, but yellow instead of white, and we'll have flat screens. Definitely an all-around improvement.
