Oy

That's the only heading I could come up with that does not include an expletive. So, while in the gym bathroom yesterday morning, my phone rang. Only because it was my sons' elementary school, did I answer it in that locale. It was the school nurse (hereinafter "Nurse Wonderful"), who before she could tell me that one of the boys was in her office with a bleeding head, quickly relayed that she's retiring. --And the reason this is important enough for her to call me with this info, unlike pretty much anyone else in my life, is that it means she will not be our nurse next year for K. Nurse Wonderful let me know that she had just told the school principal and wanted me to know right away - and was told by the director of health services (her boss) to let me know that she would be replaced and K will be fine. I told her congrats on her retirement and appreciated her calling me, as I sputtered through my (selfish) tears (yes, in the gym bathroom).
See, we have finally been comfortable with K starting kinder next year at the boys' current school. Despite there being NO other diabetics at the school and despite that Nurse Wonderful will not be at the school full time (no nurses are in these delightful budget cut times we live in  --except, in our district, a very small school with the medically fragile population), we were comfortable with K there next year because we were reassured that there would always be a nurse available for K: Nurse Wonderful or the nurse across the street at the middle school who could always run over. And although we've never met the nurse at the middle school, we were fine with this scenario because we love Nurse Wonderful. Not only is she an easy person with whom to talk, she is great with the kids with the various injuries or ailments they've had at school, she has always been supportive on our diabetes journey - and eager to learn more, including taking a class at CHLA to learn K's pump. We also knew that K was comfortable at the school that she's been dragged to since she was 9 months old and we know staff and they know her and her situation.  
I called Nurse Wonderful's boss to confirm that she will in fact be replaced (which, as we both know, is impossible, because she's SO wonderful) because she could save a lot more money  --and spread nurses even more thin -- NOT replacing her. She said that it is "her plan" to replace her. She knew I could sense her lack of certainty with that response so she assured me that K will be taken care of and also assured me that Nurse Wonderful's replacement, who cannot even be considered until the summer (begin more heart palpitations on my part), will also take the pump training class and I'll have a chance to get to know her/him. Of course, I'm thinking, "when, a couple days before school starts?!"
I have calmed down since yesterday.
Signed, that random lady crying in various places in the gym on Monday but who has calmed down a teeny bit since thtn