I had a great labor day weekend. Went with some friends to Spokane Friday night for dinner at one of my favorite restaurants — PF Changs. Saturday morning these same friends and I headed out to the St Joe river to join our families camping. The weather was perfect all weekend. Saturday a bunch of us girls decided to float the river. Some of my friends know the story of my last float trip — this was 100x’s better than that!!! LOL But, everyone else was miserable (when your last experience was as bad as mine was this was a great one). After walking, err sliding, down the gravel covered rain washout on the side of the cliff we got in the frigid glacier water for our float. Unfortunately the river was so dang low that the floating ended up with quite a bit of walking down the river. But, I still had fun.

Sunday we spent relaxing on the river jumping in and out of the ice that was supposed to pass as a rushing river for quick dips to cool off. A friend suggested swimming up to the deep swim pool which sounded fun. It was, except when I was fighting the current trying to swim upriver to get there. I finally just enjoyed the swimming and would swim upriver then float down to just swim upriver and repeat the fun. Which was all great until I was driving home Sunday evening and couldn’t lift my arms because the muscles hurt so bad. LOL Swimming upriver is HARD work. LOL

Duh.

Anyway, I came home Sunday evening so I could work on Monday. That kind of took a back seat when I got the call Monday morning that my dad was on the way to the ER. Just really ruined my day. I had planned on having lunch with a friend and she ended up locking herself out of her house which we took as a sign that I just needed to refocus and not be at home worrying about my dad.

The ER visit wasn’t so worrisome that I would normally be as nervous as I am. But, with the transplant surgery date looming it’s scary because if he gets sick the surgery could be canceled.

I talked to my mom this evening. It seems this all started because my dad has a toothache. So, tomorrow they have an ambulance transporting him to a dentist office for X-rays then the dentist will come to the hospital to work on him. He also has some fluid build-up on his lungs because he missed one day of dialysis last week because he was so sick. So, they are watching him for that.

He sounds horrible on the phone. I’m worried and keep getting distracted so it’s taking a lot to stay on focus for work. Which is good until someone decides to call me then I get distracted all over again. He’ll be in the hospital until at least Thursday.

I’m just stressed right now. Things were getting stressful anyways then this just tipped the scales for me. I know, I’ll get through it, but it’s still rough.

On a more positive note: the weather is gorgeous, this weekend was awesome, some friends invited me to go out on the lake later this week, I’m going out Friday night, and have plans with friends Saturday night.

Till later…