here's the day:
woke up with the wife too late to do any last minute studying. i'm sitting on the couch and she comes out of the bedroom, phone in hand, with this grave look on her face (let me interject here to say that i've done this now with two girlfriends and they both wore the same expression when they broke the news to me) and says, "you need to call home, your grandfather's in the hospital." and it's always with hesitation, like "put down whatever you're holding because i'm gonna drop a bomb." and they're right, because they know that my mom and my grandparents are my lifeline and if anything were to happen, i just would not be okay. so needless to say, this did not help my test mindset.
i talked to my mom briefly and she told me that he passed out YESTERDAY (why doesn't anyone ever fucking call me when these things happen? i mean, i know i flip a shit, but christ, it's my right to know!). my grandmother thought he was dead, called the paramedics, and he took about four minutes to come to. his speech was slurred and his limbs were numb. he lost all color. he's been in the hospital since.
they've been doing tests all day. cat scan, electrocardiogram, ultrasounds, blood work, blah blah blah, and they're not telling him anything. they say it could be as simple as his heart medication slowing down his heart rate (it was at +/- 40 when he was admitted; normal heart rate is between seventy and eighty beats a minute) or it could be ischemia (blood/oxygen can't get to the heart, could possibly cause a heart attack), which brings us back to two years ago with the triple bypass. when i finally talked to him this afternoon, he said he wouldn't do any major surgery again. can somebody please tell me what that means??
i am a total spaz. i just want an answer. i want to know he's okay. christ.
off-topic: bombed perception test because the teacher decided to write the most obscure questions possible, stats test was a-okay, and managed an 82.5 on yesterday's history & systems in psych class (nice because i thought i failed).
forty-two new gray hairs just busted out of my scalp!
woke up with the wife too late to do any last minute studying. i'm sitting on the couch and she comes out of the bedroom, phone in hand, with this grave look on her face (let me interject here to say that i've done this now with two girlfriends and they both wore the same expression when they broke the news to me) and says, "you need to call home, your grandfather's in the hospital." and it's always with hesitation, like "put down whatever you're holding because i'm gonna drop a bomb." and they're right, because they know that my mom and my grandparents are my lifeline and if anything were to happen, i just would not be okay. so needless to say, this did not help my test mindset.
i talked to my mom briefly and she told me that he passed out YESTERDAY (why doesn't anyone ever fucking call me when these things happen? i mean, i know i flip a shit, but christ, it's my right to know!). my grandmother thought he was dead, called the paramedics, and he took about four minutes to come to. his speech was slurred and his limbs were numb. he lost all color. he's been in the hospital since.
they've been doing tests all day. cat scan, electrocardiogram, ultrasounds, blood work, blah blah blah, and they're not telling him anything. they say it could be as simple as his heart medication slowing down his heart rate (it was at +/- 40 when he was admitted; normal heart rate is between seventy and eighty beats a minute) or it could be ischemia (blood/oxygen can't get to the heart, could possibly cause a heart attack), which brings us back to two years ago with the triple bypass. when i finally talked to him this afternoon, he said he wouldn't do any major surgery again. can somebody please tell me what that means??
i am a total spaz. i just want an answer. i want to know he's okay. christ.
off-topic: bombed perception test because the teacher decided to write the most obscure questions possible, stats test was a-okay, and managed an 82.5 on yesterday's history & systems in psych class (nice because i thought i failed).
forty-two new gray hairs just busted out of my scalp!
And thanks for the comment about the piercing...it kind of eased my mind a bit....