Author: jonathanm1978
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:56 pm
As you said, it’s becoming a more distant memory now..we’ve been home since Monday (Feb 27). That was a very difficult time for us, financially, emotionally, physically…each one of those were a strain but I’m sure I don’t have to explain the difficulties involved. What really beat us up was that traffic. We live in a somewhat rural area of the country…so big-city Birmingham visiting isn’t even a monthly ritual for us. MAYBE once every 2-3 months we’ll go to Birmingham for some reason or another..but it’s DEFINITELY not a habit..Highway 280 going into Bham is AWFUL..it’s rated on of the 10 Worst Cities to drive in..I’d honestly rather drive in New Orleans (where I was born, BTW) than I would Bham during rush-hour. So for us, to be forced into driving this stretch of road daily — and even multiple times daily — was a HUGE burden. But I would’ve been damned if I was even going to VISIT the though of leaving my baby up there by herself just because I didn’t want to fight the traffic. Would’ve been a mighty selfish move on my part to feel that way..so we stayed as much as possible. My wife even wanted to come home and sleep in our bed a couple of times, but I didn’t want to leave my baby girl..I knew it was just exhaustion starting to set-in with her (she had just been cut open and her guts fiddled with…so I tried to keep her still and not moving around). Riding in the car an hour at a time to drive to Bham and back was NOT the best for her either. Not to mention every time we made the trip, there was at LEAST one person that I wanted to physically STRANGLE. Not choke, not punch..but STRANGLE because their actions behind the wheel were those of a complete fukin moron. (When we got discharged and headed home, I watched a guy in front of me get cut off — next lane over — and he pulled up beside the car that did it and stopped at their passenger window. The guy had some car cut in front of him to get to a turning lane..and he apparently didn’t like that very much…so he pulled over by the guy’s window and stopped to express a)his gratitude, or b)his adjectives and prepositional phrases )
Anyway…we’re home now. I’ll get some pics posted in a little bit.
