Friday, February 29th 2008

filed in: Family, Personal

So I started out my day like I usually do, a cup of java and log on the computer. Nice morning, around 12:30 I get a phone call from my step-brother that my dad was taken to the hospital, he couldn’t walk. That’s when I felt the bottom drop out.

I live over an hour away, so D leaves work, gets me and Miss Priss and we head to the hospital, picking up my sister on the way. We didn’t have a clue as his condition, so you can imagine how worried we were. Oh, did I mention that the reason we didn’t know was because my dad’s wife refused to call me or my sister? Yeah, but that’s a whole other story.

Dad was in the ER when we arrived, but they were getting ready to move him up to a room. I stepped out to speak to the nurse as I wasn’t told anything when we got there. She explained the doctor could come to talk to us, I just looked at her, told her I wasn’t even called that my father was rushed in, the look of shock on that nurses face was what I had been feeling since I received that phone call, she hugged me and told me that he had had a stroke, they found a small bleed and will run more tests to see if any blockage was involved. I couldn’t thank that ER nurse enough for caring and having a heart.

Dad is resting, he’s in no pain, just uncomfortable. He has significant weakness on his right side, his speech isn’t effected that much. He’ll be ok, I’m sure of it. I have to be. I, on the other hand, am a wreck.

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Monday, February 18th 2008

filed in: Bag Project, Family, Monday Musings

We did something yesterday that, well I haven’t done in years! We went bowling! We went to one of those mega complexes, bowling alley, game room, laser tag, billiards, etc. I have to admit, I just wasn’t getting the neon colored bowling balls, the feeling that you had no space in your own lane because they cram you in like sardines and all the cotton pickin’ parties! The constant announcements over the intercom announcing “Party So-So report to Blah-blah” was annoying. It was like bowling on crack.

I miss the old bowling alley’s where you have a lane to yourself and you didn’t have to sit on top of twenty other people. I also missed the lane etiquette, where the person beside you waited till you threw your ball, didn’t run up and throw their ball when you were standing there getting ready to throw. So rude and it threw me off every.single.time!!! I could never find a decent ball, of course all the balls were either neon green, neon pink or neon purple but the holes were funky…do you remember the old bowling alley’s, all the different balls there were and there was always one that was perfect for you.

Plus I must admit, I love kids, I really do. Can’t wait to have my own grandkids one day in the far future. But some people do not control their children!! We had several experiences of kids wandering over to our lane about to throw their ball down our lane, or even walking in front of one of us as we were about to throw the ball. Where were their parents?? The absolute worst was the young couple who came to “share” our space so to speak, they had two little ones, one that was a crawler. Miss Priss was up, the woman just let the crawler loose and the crawler was under Miss Priss’s legs!!! The woman just stood there watching!!!! Miss Priss is looking back at the woman like, “I’m trying to bowl here lady, take your kid”, but the woman was the type who thought her child was so precious that we all should share her opinion! I was furious. Not only was she endangering her child, but she showed that she did not value her job as a mother for keeping her child safe. Thankfully, we were on our last frames, so we packed it up and left.

But, for the general event of bowling it was fun. I beat everyone the first game! Huge surprise! My future DIL, almost beat me, but I pulled it out in the end! Big D was the winner of our last game. I’m sore today, used some different muscles. I’m looking in this area for a good ol’ bowling alley, we’d like to bowl more often but I won’t be going back to one of those mega lane places any time soon.