Latest Update on Papa

He is doing well. I got a message from his friend who stayed overnight (so I could sleep in my own bed and come into the office today), and she said that he ate an entire meal last night, slept well (they put him on a CPAP, which he honestly should have had years ago), and that he had a big, busy morning today and was quite tired from all that. Also, they are talking about moving him out of ICU tomorrow and into a cardiac room, so that will be nice. I hope that he will be able to be released before Christmas. I know that he won’t want to be in the hospital over the holidays.

I am hoping I can make some arrangements with work so that I can have the next couple of weeks off to help get his house situated for him (we had been talking before he went into the hospital about doing some of that) and help him get re-adjusted. I guess the upshot of it being near the holidays is that things are generally pretty slow for me right now. No one wants to do much work on their directories that aren’t being printed until March or April when they could be whooping it up with egg nog and holiday cheer.

I am actually exhausted and I really want to just go back to bed, which is sad because the only things I’ve done today are shower, pack, and come in to the office about 45 minutes ago.

Being in the office is weird for me because I’m dreading that someone might come over and want to talk a bunch about what’s going on, and I just don’t want to talk about it any more right now. For one thing, it always starts me crying. For another, I’m just really tired. Some parts of being a grown-up are just crappy.

Thanks again to all of you for your calls, support, help, and prayers. I have the best group of friends any girl could ever want and I am so thankful for each and every one of you. Awww…