She survived!

I should be saying a huge prayer of thanks for my 16-year-old’s survival! Seriously! I don’t know how she made it through the last 40 days? Just shy of a miracle, I’m pretty sure. Thank goodness she was patient and managed to struggle through or I just don’t know what would have happened. I shudder to think of what could have. When she got in the car after the appointment, she just shook her head in amazement and with a big smile said, “I can’t believe I made it a whole 40 days?” And I’m not positive, but there may have been a small teardrop forming in the corner of her eye.

You see, she had herself a pretty big scare back in May when she dropped new cell phone and it stopped working instantly. Now I know to you and me, that would be a bummer and an annoyance for a few days, but to her 16-year-old world, it was complete and utter devastation! We rushed it to the cell phone store as fast as we could to hopefully save it, but after various lifesaving attempts, they came out and gave her the devastating news, “I’m sorry. We did all that we could but we just couldn’t save it.”

The news hit her like a ton of bricks. She didn’t crumble to the floor or anything, but no kidding, the blood quickly rushed out of her face and her eyes turned to me in desperation. “What am I gonna do??” she whispered. While not really feeling quite the same level of despair as my teenage daughter but still wanting to help, I asked the cell phone doctor if we had any options. After some hunting on our account, she suggested that perhaps we could file an insurance claim on the broken phone, and in the meantime, upgrade my phone, which it was time, and then let my distraught daughter use my phone until the insurance company sent her a new one in … 40 DAYS!!

I personally, thought that was an excellent idea and decided we must have stumbled upon a cell phone Goddess, because she was just working it all out like it was nothing. I went in the store that day already deciding I was not going to pay for a new phone so my 16-year-old was going to be either be completely phoneless for a while OR using whatever the store had used in the back room, flip phone, bag phone, toy phone, whatever. I didn’t care. So … I was pretty pleased with the fact that not only could I get a new phone, but she could use my current one for the next month and a half, and it was still a decent smartphone.

True, it was an older model, the battery life was sketchy and the camera had a few scratches on it but overall, still had lots of life on it!

So I thought we’d been living pretty cush for the last 40 days, with everyone have workable phones and still talking to who we need to, etc. But last week when her replacement phone arrived and we got it all set up, her reaction would have made you think she had just barely survived the battle of her lifetime. I didn’t notice her suffering the last month and a half.

She must have hidden it well! But apparently, it was quite the ordeal. How DID she make it? I’ll never know! And when she expressed how amazed she was at herself for surviving the last 40 days, I said, “Oh man, I do not know how you did it? I am just shocked at how strong you are! Way to go!” What a trooper, eh? To endure 40 full days with an older, decrepit smartphone? Phew! If she can survive that, she can survive anything!

Followed with an eye roll … Geesh!!!