Monday, June 13, 2011

CopWife Life

The text came over at 11:40 pm: Be a little late, on shots fired. OOC.
OOC, for those of you who need translation: Out Of Control.
At 12:08: I began texting back: U OK? Lemmeno ASAP.
At 12:14: OK here, be home soon

That's thirty-four minutes in limbo, any cop wives out there who can relate?

This morning I found out about people toting guns and shell casings found at a baby shower.

Nice!

10 comments:

  1. my hubby was like 4 hours late the other night because of a homicide. I never did reach him during this time. Talk about worried to death!

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  2. This is the part people don't see...

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  3. The feeling of the unknown is the worst. Whenever Mr. has to head in on a night off it makes me worry. Whenever he is late I wonder if he is ok. When he doesn't respond to my text or return my call I pray.

    With my husbands rank we always have a target on our backs. Its just the way it is.

    Something that helps me is I have a special craft project I do when Im worried. Something that needs my full attention and helps me to relax. Crafts are my out but Im sure if you found a good book, tv show, project or even a friend to laugh with it will help :)

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  4. That's gotta be tough to be worried in times like this. While I'm not a worrier, I am glad to see that so many of you have creative ideas for how to get through the wait. It will get better the longer he serves and avoids injury. I never worry these days, even on the SWAT calls. I just don't believe he's going to be killed in the line of duty.

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  5. I can totally relate! For this reason, Hubs and I set up a system: with every text, he sends okay/not okay. So instead of getting, "Gonna be late, shots fired" he sends, "Gonna be late, shots fired, okay." It makes a heck of a difference while you're waiting to find out what happened.

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  6. So Lisa, have you ever had a "shots fired/not ok" msg? Whatever would you do? YIKES!

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  7. Well, I must thank you all for the good advice...I had another Cop Wife once say to me:
    "He's not going to get killed in the Bronx." She told me that they had an ongoing joke at their house; that her husband would walk out the door and get run over by a bus before he got killed in the line of duty. Now, she was joking, but I get the idea of not even thinking it...not believing it...and I am almost there...it's just that some nights are tougher than others!
    :) SCW Stella

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  8. @Stella - we have a similar thing, but he tells me to quickly throw his uniformed body over the mailbox, so he was "protecting government property" at his demise. ;)

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  9. Meadow! You just made me LOL---really!
    :) XO Stella

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  10. @Meadow - I've had "got in a fight; bleeding" before. I'm pretty sure my response was, "...from where?!" Love the mailbox story!

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