UCSF Hospital ROCKS

My amazing and charming cousin/sister Christamae has been in the hospital forEVER as usual.....and the doctors told her parents to prepare themselves, as they said she would probably only have a few weeks left.

I got the news from my mom and scrambled to get this week off of work so I could go visit with her. It's GRADUATION week so talk about crazy..if you don't know, I work at a restaurant so its like asking to squeeze orange juice out of a pear....

My managers somehow had some miscommunication, and they scheduled me not only a full schedule this week, but the FULLEST schedule I have ever had.  CRAZY! I was so mad, and so hurt, and so upset, and so stressed out all at the same time.  I approached my manager on duty, and he told me to talk to the manager in charge of scheduling.  I didn't want to start bawling right there, so I just said okay and left.  In the meantime, the manager I had spoken to was running around the restaurant asking servers to pick up any shift they could.

My AMAZING coworkers picked up whatever they could, despite their finals and already full schedules, and made a way for me to go home! I could have cried!  And this manager has a reputation for being a big jerk...so to see his concern and efforts really made me look at him differently!

Then I talk to my grandma and my mom on Sunday night before I am about to leave, and some nurse at UCSF was able to put a PIC line in my cousin, which is a very precarious proceedure, and only ONE Nurse in the whole hospital was able to do it!  So she is doing MUCH BETTER!!!!!!!!  And so as a result, after much worry and what not, I am feeling confident enough and at peace enough to stick around here, at least for now.

Talk about a stressful week....I was worried all week that she wouldn't make it, we are like sisters prettymuch, and with all the pain she has gone through in her life, and all the medical problems, its always touch and go, but I am so grateful that this time she pulled through.  I am really praying that she gets to stay alive long enough to accomplish her desires to finish college and to be a benefit to mankind!! (though she already is a great power and strength in her family's lives!  As is her sister who suffers from the same disease)