You find out who your friends are

Last night Hannah, our 12 day old daughter was having breathing problems. We thought it might be a cold and left it until this morning. During the night Hannah was up all night unable to sleep or feed. Today I was working in the Video Shop (VideoWorld, 1 South Street Torquay) and I got a phone call from Marie saying Hannah was getting worse and she was taking her to the doctors.

I really did not want to work in the video shop today because I saw how bad Hannah was last night but told Marie to phone me the minute she had news. Just before 6pm I get a phone call from her saying the doctor has said to take her up to casulty because he was concerned about her. At this point, like any father would, I needed to be with Marie and our daughter to comfort them both in casulty.

I phone my Dad to get him to cover me briefly and phoned the bosses, Gill and Dennis, to ask them to come in at close because Dad doesn't know what to do. Would you believe Gill actually got shitty on the phone and bitched at me about her coming in!

I ignore the shitty phone call and headed to casulty. After being examined the Doctor said her breathing was worrying enough to keep her in overnight. I race back here to get some money for the car park and find the Video shop shut. Apperently Gill and Den came storming in the shop fuming, kicked out my customers who were on the computer and shouted at my Dad that it was his fault because he didn't know how to shut the shop.

What the fuck? you pair of heartless, selfish shits! My TWELEVE DAY old daughter was heading to CASULTY! If Den was taken to casulty tomorrow wouldn't YOU want to be with him? You shouldn't assume you know what's wrong because you don't and you got it wrong. The phone call from Marie scared me to death. I needed support from you and all I got was a selfishness I've never seen before.

In the last year and a half I have covered EVERY SINGLE evening that you two wanted to go out and I did it without a second thought. I have NEVER had a single day off. In all that time I've asked you to come in twice to cover the final few hours of my shift. once because my Grandad died and the second because of a stomach infection that kept me on the loo. When my Grandad died I STILL had to pay YOUR son for covering me.

I'm sorry I messed up your evenings TV, next time Hannah gets ill or someone is about to die I'll have to make sure to tell them they can get ill or die on any day but a Wednesday because you have your precious day off!

I cannot believe how fucking selfish you two are. I’ve never asked for ANYTHING from you and the one day I needed support from you two you shit all over me.

Bastards!

**Update 9am Thursday**

Marie and Hannah are still in hospital. Hannah still has trouble breathing and still isn't feeding. Looks like they won't be coming home today either. I'll keep you all posted and thanks for the kind words and emails!