A funny story and a bittersweet end

I'm going to confess now: I am hot.  Not in that swimsuit model kind of way, but in that menopausal woman sweating through the night kind of way.  Not that I'm old enough for menopause, that's just the first thing I think of when I feel like I'm having hot flashes...you know what, forget I mentioned menopause. I'm just always warm, okay?

Anyway, since I'm always warm I frequently have my hospital room window open, and I often don't have any bedding covering me.  I just wear my hospital gown as a nightie and sleep in the open.  One night the temperature dropped a bit and I got too chilly in the middle of the night.  I reached down sleepily around 4am and pulled my sheet up from my lap to cover my arms - the only part of me feeling the chill, since my legs don't really notice temperature much.

It wasn't until staff came in with my breakfast and wanted to get the day rolling by checking my blood sugar and giving me my morning medications that I realized I hadn't had a sheet covering me that night.  Nope, what I'd pulled up to cover my arms was the hem of my hospital gown, leaving me naked as a jaybird from the waist down.  I was in a fit of laughter for many minutes over that one, I can tell you.

Today was not a day for laughter though. Today, after carrying me patiently for months past what the law requires, my long-time employer had to let me go.  They have been generous beyond measure, and both they and I still hope that soon, as soon as possible, I will recover enough to return to working in an office environment, and they would love to have me back as much as I would love to rejoin them.  But for now, we'll have to tighten the belt a bit, and try to stay focused on getting strong, and float along as best we can until I'm back on my feet, either literally or just metaphorically.  These are scary times to be unemployed, but we have some plans in place and we'll be preserving my medical insurance as long as possible, and though I don't know exactly how yet, we will overcome this just as we have been overcoming everything else life has thrown at us lately.  Nothing can keep us down. Nothing.