Over the Easter weekend I sent an email to Ronald McDonald House to see if it was possible to reserve a room for Ellie's surgery. Unfortunately though when the manager called, she had bad news. They were full.
The best she could do was place our name on the books and reserve us the next room that opens up, but there's no way of knowing if this will happen in time or not. With a lot of long term families there, it was not looking good for us.
I tried not to panic, but the thought of having nowhere to stay was scary. There was just no way that we could afford to pay for accomodation. Ellie's surgery is right in the middle of school holidays, and Targa weekend as well. The cheapest accomodation I could find was a dingy caravan park for $135 a night. Over 10 nights.... It's too much to even think about.
Penny from Ronald McDonald House said to call back on the 16th and she could give us a better idea then, but that means leaving it to the last minute to find alternative accomodation. But to book anywhere you need to pay a deposit, that you lose if you cancel the booking. We were stuck between a rock and a hard place.
I posted about the possibility of having nowhere to stay in my online support group, and as always got heaps of supportive comments and suggestions. But what amazed me the most was an offer made by one lovely lady in particular. She offered to pay for one night's accomodation. It was apsolutely beautiful and brought tears to my eyes to think that a perfect stranger cared so much about Ellie. So as not to embarrass her I wont name names, but I want her to know how much I really appreciated the offer.
A few days later we found a solution to our problem. Drew has a cousin in Hobart who offered us her spare room. So, disaster averted yet again. We would still prefer a room at Ronald McDonald, but now if one doesn't come up we at least wont be facing paying out over two weeks of income on accomodation.
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