I’m writing this at 6:55 in the morning and I have already been up for over an hour! Are you impressed?

So, my dad came home yesterday afternoon. His test results? Yeah, they don’t know what was wrong with him. They’ve taken him off the blood thinner that he was on, put him on 14 other pills, including some nutritional health supplements because he has lost so much weight in the past year, and a couple of puffers. He still has blood in his lungs (sorry to anyone who was eating when they started reading this!) and is still coughing some up now and then (sorry again!) but much less than before, so they sent him home.

Now my parents are hoping to sell their house and move into town, instead of half an hour outside of town. I think that’s a fantastic idea – I mean they waited almost 45 minutes for an ambulance when this happened to Dad, and this was in good weather. About 10 years ago, my mom fell off the front step of our house right after an ice storm and broke her femur in a few places. Dad and I couldn’t move her, because she was in so much pain. It was January. The temperatures were well below freezing. As I mentioned, there had been an ice storm, so of course the roads were bad – and it took a little more than an hour and a half before the ambulance got to us. Dad and I had piled blankets upon blankets on Mom, but still. January.

Anyway. They’re hoping to buy a house in town that is a main house with an in-law suite, or a duplex. The idea is that they will take the smaller of the two, because there’s just the two of them, and my brother and his family will take the bigger one (bro and his wife have been looking to buy a house anyway so this works out well). That way my dad wouldn’t have to worry about mowing lawns or shoveling driveways, and they’d be right in town in case anything like this ever happened again.

So. I’m glad my dad is no longer in the ICU (I bet he is, too). Hopefully their house sells soon (even though I know it’s not a great house-selling economy and all that blah blah – it’s a beautiful house, if anyone wants to live in the country). And hopefully there will be no more hospital visits for anyone in the near future.