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Date: 30 January 2006 21:48:24
It's been a day of mercy missions.
My boss has been great. So sympathetic and supportive and willing to give me as much time (unpaid, naturally, if it's en masse, but time nonetheless) as I need whenever I need it.
Good job I'd talked with him at the start of lesson three as, within the hour, my mobile was ringing and I was once again on my way to the hospital. Scary for my poor sister as she was due to catch a train, having delayed her trip home by a day already. Good job my other sister was on her way.
She was coming as we'd called her in distress yesterday as Dad was so low and poorly. But she arrived to an empty house and babysitting duties.
She arrived at the hospital to find him perkier than he's been for days, sitting up in bed and enjoying a natter and laugh and able to follow even the most complex tale she told him about a problem her husband is having with public liability insurance. Pah - it seems dreadful to say it, but I hope that while she's here she sees dad at his worst as well as at his best! Infuriating to think it looks as though my other sister and I were exaggerating. But even my other sister said that when he's brighter it's hard to remember or to believe just how terribly poorly he was just an hour earlier.
They're keeping him in overnight - it's a problem with blood clots in the urine again that they want to make sure is stable - then he could well be home tomorrow.
Mind you, I'd have given anything to crawl in the bed alongside him.. and even more to indulge in his rather delicious-looking tea and glass of water which he was given in front of me when I'd neither eaten nor drank for hooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrs!