This has been one trying week.

This morning at 10:00 I answered my mother’s pounding on my front door (apparently my phone had powered off and even though I’ve been up since 7:30 she couldn’t get through). My dad has had a cough all week. His lungs collapsed this morning and he’s in surgery right now having chest tubes put in.

Guys, I’m terrified.

I had the same thing happen to me when I was 21 – I kept having asthma attacks, both my lungs popped, I was in the hospital for a week and could barely move for two weeks after that. I was relatively healthy (aside from the asthma).

My dad’s 62. He’s NOT in the best of health. Some of you might recall that he had an aortic aneurysm a few years ago. He’s been on all kinds of medications including blood thinners since then. He’s painfully underweight (he eats all.the.time. but he’s like, 150 lbs on a 6’2″ frame).

I may be overreacting, I don’t know. But this is my dad, and I’m scared.