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Date: 27 October 2004 13:20:35
Well, we won't be going anywhere. Dad was taken into hospital this morning by ambulance and we're waiting for test results to tell us whether it was a bad angina attack, a mild heart attack or something else, possibly exacerbated by the fall he had last night.
Typical - I was sleeping on my good ear and my infected ear is deaf at the moment, so I missed his phone call at 6.30 when he was first taken ill. But he called at 8 while I was having my breakfast and by ten he was in the hospital. I'm off up there in an hour to visit him and find out whether they're keeping him in overnight.
The boys were all of a dither, not knowing whether to worry about grandad or be extremely excited by the arrival of the ambulance. Luckily they were going out for the day and the respite carer was able to come and collect them and take them off out of the way. Now I just have to think about how I am going to fit in fetching them back.
My sister's planning to come for the weekend to see him, seeing as she'd cleared the weekend so's to be able to go up to the Midlands. It means that I really have to get the place looking a bit more respectable before Friday!!! If only I could settle to things. I'm torn between worry about Dad and frustration that these things almost seemed timed to hit the times when I am planning to go away. Obviously this has made it clear that I can't leave him alone overnight again and that he has to have a personal alarm whether he wants one or not. Time to get bolshy ;)