My apologies for not having kept up with my blog. My mother-in-law became ill and was in the hospital for a couple of weeks before she passed away. She was 83 years old and had lived a good and long life but she was also a smoker which made it that much more difficult for her lungs to handle the illness. My husband also came home sick from work one night. It turned out to be a nasty case of influenza. We have all taken a turn with influenza in our household. So with the time needed for personal reasons, I have been very busy trying to get caught up on things. I hope to take my own advice though and work through time management issues so that things don’t fall too far behind when things like this happen. These are things you always need to be somewhat prepared for, however, death and illness are always unexpected, no matter how prepared you may think you are. I guess that’s why the backup plan is always something to have worked out in case of emergencies such as these. Normally when I am super busy, my backup plan is to delegate work to my family and in this case, that was not even a possibility. I know that I am not the first Virtual Assistant to have this kind of thing sneak up on them when they are unprepared so this is a good reminder for those of us who haven’t already got a backup plan in place. I was fortunate this time in that I did not have any immediate deadlines however it still puts a person behind when you lose 10 days of work time.
Filed under: Emergency/Backup Plan | Tagged: backup plan, Family emergencies
