Monday, January 16, 2006

Roadblocks

So, yeah, you go through all this shit in your life. You finally get a good plan in mind for how to turn it around. You've got a list of things you awnt to work on changing in your life. Then all of a sudden you hit a roadblock. And all of that's put on the back burner.

I could've sworn I blogged about this, but it doesn't appear to be there. Anyways, my dad had a heart attack last friday. Thankfully minor. He was in the hospital until tuesday. They found a 50-60% blockage in one of his grafted arteries from the bypass he had back in 96. It wasn't a terrible blockage, so they felt a stint wasn't necessary. They start him on a regimine of blood thinners. He spent most of the rest of this week feeling like shit. Horrible chills, bad rashes, muscles aches and weakness. He woke up this morning with chest pains and when he told my mother about it, she was unable to find a pulse on him. We called 911, and the paramedics took him to the ER. They put an external pacemaker on him to stabilize his pulse. He's back in the hospital again, having had a second heart attack in almost a week. He's got a temporary internal pacemaker now, and they're still running tests to determine what's happened.

So, new copaX has been put on hold, so Chris can spend time with the family where he's needed.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

you are being a good son, but don't put the new CopaX on hold too long....You don't want to lose him...

GLITTERGIRL said...

i know i always have my bossy advice and opinions, but not today. i read this quote and it seemed to say what i want to say to you....

"When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." --Henri Nouwen

Anonymous said...

Thats not the way I remember the Nantuckit rhymn.....maybe a different era.....but mine was better..

Anonymous said...

Sorry I had to argue with Zak on your blog.....hows it going for you? Keep us posted.....

GLITTERGIRL said...

ah, evil zak is back and in rare form!!!

here's a good quote for y'all: "i cried when I had no shoes, until i met a man who had no feet. and then i laughed... really hard." (jerri blank, strangers with candy)

copaX- you take care!!!