Sometimes my husband likes to say, “siempre llueve sobre lo mojado.” Which literally means it always rains over what is already wet. This is a way of saying that whatever is bad per se is always bound to turn worse.
When whatever is bad turns to awful, it’s more than sure it will get on your nerves like it does on mine!
We’ve lived through a couple of rain storms and have survived, but sometimes like my husband says you kind of get tired of always running into more trouble.
One of the storms I just mentioned occurred shortly after coming back from New York (a couple of weeks after moving back into our home) the measles came to give us a visit. My daughter was in Kinder and my two boys, who were than preschoolers, were at home with me.
One day she came home from school with a single dot on her forehead, my mom assured me that she thought that Stephy had measles. You know I had to rely on her expertise because I really didn’t know much about measles (until that moment, I would become an expert fairly soon).
To move fast forward quickly, all my three children got the measles. One just a couple around their little bodies and others all over the place (Caladryl became a household name in my home!). Nevertheless, it really didn’t worry me because all of us get measles during our childhoods and it was a milestone my own children had to go through. To my surprise, my mother in law commented “lightly” that my husband had never had measles. Yikes! This is when it began raining over the already wet ground.
I wasn’t surprised at all when my husband got the measles as well.
Here we had to deal with a completely different situation. He had end stage liver disease.
I phoned his doctor right away and he briefed me on the things I needed to be aware of (which I barely remember), and what to do if they happened. The worst cases scenario was that we would need to request some special medication from The Red Cross (which I’m not sure if it was a medication or some plasma). Blame my long-term memory loss to menopause! Don’t ask me for details because I’m afraid I can’t give them to you. The thing is that we were in a bad situation that was heading to get much worse in a couple of days.
So, what did happen after all?
Well, to our surprise (since all of you know our great record on scoring bad things) nothing happened. Measles came and went and he survived them. Our dear Lord decided to stop the rain and sent us instead a beautiful rainbow.
I opened my front door, waved the measles goodbye and told them to take the rain with them, and welcomed in a nice bright rainbow and pretty much enjoyed the break life gave us during a bumpy ride we were getting through during that period in our lives.
