Please, let this week be better than last

Ever had one of those weeks you wish would just end.  Now!  My week was actually about 10 days long.  It started when my medication was a little too successful and made me feel like a train wreck.  It caused upset stomach, massive leg cramps (including my inner thighs!), and other symptons I won't go into. Finally Thursday night I went to the ER.  Although I drink about 3 litres of water a day, plus some Gatorade I'd been chugging, I was still dehydrated.  Insert IV to rehydrate.  Take these two pills to stop the stomach issues.  When you get home, take this to sleep.  Test again for C-Diff (third time since August).  Have a prescription for some sleeping pills.  Friday night I took one and turned off the ringer on my phone. I woke up at 8 AM and called mom.  While I was talking to her, my friend and co-worker Tina beeped in.  Since the ringer on my phone was off, if I hadn't been on the phone, I wouldn't have known she was calling.

Tina would never call me that early on a weekend unless something was wrong.  I thought maybe she was sick and wouln't be at work.  No.  She had just gotten a call that her best friend Heather had been killed early Saturday morning by a drunk driver (Walt Taton).  She had no time to accept that when she received a call that one of her co-workers at the state had passed away from cancer during the night.  While you can prepare yourself mentally for the passing of someone from cancer, since it has been months, you cannot prepare for the death of a 28 year old friend with three small children. The news reports keep stating that the driver and Heather were not wearing seatbelts.  Yes, you should always wear your seatbelt, but apparently a seatbelt would not have helped Heather.  Her side of the car was hit full speed by a drunk driving a Ford F350 pickup.  "Apparently" alcohol was involved.  Really?  He was driving in the wrong lane and killed a woman--a mother, wife, and friend.  And he seriously injured a woman who was planning her wedding.  The two women were on their way back from making wedding plans in Rapid City.  Heather chose to stay home to raise her children.  I haven't met her daughters, but her son Alex is the cutest, sweetest little guy around. He's not 2 yet, and will not grow up with his mommy.  She won't be there to teach her daughters to make cookies or paint their fingernails.  If the man who hit them does not spend the rest of his life in prison, then that is a true crime.  I hope he has a good insurance policy, because they are going to get that and everything else he has.

All of this did not put me in a good mood, so when a stupid former employee called to find out why her paycheck wasn't deposited on Friday, I had no tact.  We get paid on the 1st and the 15th.  Anyone want to venture a guess why she did't get paid Friday? Right--she is an idiot.  I didn't say that of course, just explained the she would be paid Tuesday with the rest of us.  She tried to argue.  I said "Tuesday" and hung up.  Why does God let idiots live, and takes good people?