bad day

Two days ago, my world came tumbling down. And i was not prepared for it. Cos everything was going so well. And flowers were singing to me and the sun was smiling for me and suddenly BOOM BOOM BOOM. Darkness enveloped everything in the Kingdom Of Terence.

It started as a normal Tuesday morning. Went to work with a healthy mind. Was telling myself, today will be a good nice flight. Then discovered I was flying with one of the most ruthless Commanders in the company. He was known far and wide for his demandingness and arrogance. Told myself, it's ok. I'm a professional, i can do this. And it certainly didn't help that he and I had our little differences in the past and didn't quite get along. Briefed my crew to be prepared for any sudden change of moods and if i seem agitated thru out the flight, please bear with me. Throughout the first 2 sectors, everything was good. We were even earlier than expected. Then enroute to our second destination, we discovered we had mistakenly left a guest at the gate. I don't know why, but we turned back. Thankfully we were still on ground. I was called into the cockpit and I braced myself for the coming tirade.

Once back at the terminal, opened the door, brought in the left behind guest when all of a sudden someone screamed! I turned my head in time to see someone collapsing and someone else grabbing on to that person. A woman had gone into epileptic fits. And her husband was shouting for help. I immediately responded. Shouted at my crew for backup and to page for a doctor. Grabbed hold of the woman who was now just shaking violently. Her husband had put his finger into her mouth to prevent her from choking on her tongue. I was scared ot death she would stop breathing and I really did not want to give her CPR altho if it came to that, i would but I really didn't want to. I decided the next best thing was to administer oxygen. Grabbing the nearest oxygen bottle, i turned it on and then i realize there was blood on her face. Where was the blood coming from?! From her hubby's finger. She had bit down on it. Oh.. the mayhem!!

Placed the oxygen mask on her face and thank GOD there was a doctor onboard who offered his help. An ambulance was already on the way and everything was beginning to get back to normal. We offloaded her and her husband and son. Keep it mind, that it decided to rain torrentially right then and we don't use aerobridges cos it's an open bay. So wet i became. After everything was settled down, closed the door and we took off. Had to interview the doctor and a few of the guest for record purposes. Halfway thru the flight, another passenger decided to rain on my parade and tried to smoke in the lavatory. Needless to say, he got screamed at and lectured in front of everyone by a very fuming me. Thank God, the alarm didn't go off. But it did about a half hour later for no apparent reason without anyone being in any of the lavatory. I tell you, God was really testing me that day. Got called into the cockpit, time and time again.

I was eager to the entire day behind me, so i got home, showered and just lay on my bed when my phone rang and guess what? One of my girl friend's husband called using her phone and asked me to stay away from his wife and to stop calling her. I'm like WHAT THE FUCK? I had half the mind to scream at him. Turns out, he thought i was having an affair with her becos of all the time she spends with me. And becos some of the messages i send to her begin with "my dear" or "dear," or "babe". My mind just went blank and I told myself, i cannot be dealing with this crap. I just told, whatever. And put the phone down. Normally I would have argued back and stood my ground but at that point in time, i was just fed up. It was like the whole world was conspiring against me.

The next day, i was still feeling the after effects of that horrific day. Felt so blue and I really didn't want to get up from bed. A close friend concluded that sometimes God gives you all the good things he can give you for a week or two and holds back all the bad things and then gives it to you all one shot to see how strong you are. I think it's true.

But whatever it is, I survived. Thank you for all the moral support i got. You guys are eternally blessed!! And the sun is shining again once again on the magical Land of Terence.