Temporary single dad, it's hard!

On monday I had to take my son Ginji to the hospital, he had an appointment for an MRI scan of his head. Cause he is  4 years old he had to go under narcoses. Man, oh man, it was horrible. We had to be there at 07:45 in the morning. I went cycling cause Ginji loves to be sitting on the back of the bike. In the hospital he had to change his clothes into this pyjama. We had to wait for two hours. Ginji wasn't aloud to eat or drink anything an dhe was pretty bad and pissed of, trying to climb out of his bed. Then finaly he could go downstairs and get sedated. The thing was that they gave me this cream to put on his hands. This cream sedates the hand for a needle pinch for the narcose. Before leaving to the hospital I was fighting Ginji to get it on his hands and cover it up with a folie bandage. I barely won the fight. For his narcoses he foght again which made the doctors choose to sedate him with a mask. It was kinda funny to see this angry struggeling boy being so calm and sleeping in 5 seconds.

In an hour I got called he was in the room to wake up. THere he was sleeping in his bed, he had this thing on his toe so they could measure his heartrate. I was sitting there, there were more childeren there waking up, this one girl was crying and making a lot of fuss, she was such a cry baby. Anyway I was sitting there, Ginji was as calm as can be. I was watching his heartrate monitor and suddenly it went from 99 to 78, it stopped, then started. This whole time Ginji was sleeping quite and the nurse came to look, she didn't hurry, looked at Ginji and then the monitor flatlined. Ginji was still breating though and the nurse didn't worry. She told me the machine had a mallfunction, pretty weird, huh?

Anyway, when Ginji woke up he was a true monster, I swear, Godzilla had nothing on him, he as just too bad and too angry which is something he never is cause he is the sweetest boy alive. He had to drink some juice and he ate about eight biscuits. Then we could go home.

In the evening he was so tired, he fell a sleep on the floor in the livingroom, I fell asleep on the couch a few hours later while watching Buffy. I woke up at 3 in the morning, still had to shower so I did, then went to bed. Ginji woke up at 6 this morning. I was still tired. I went walking with my dog and had a nice luch. Then I had a killer headache. I lied on the couch the rest of the day and I just got of it.

This was the price I had to pay for yesterday. I realised I had some stress, was really busy which made me tired. I also realised I really miss my wife. Normaly when she is on her family visit in Japan I always miss the kids more than I miss her cause we talk almost daily on the phone. Now I really miss, it is so much easier to do things together and she really does a hell of a lot more than me. Still 3,5 weeks before she comes home... and I have to start work on monday again!