It's Been a Long Night
Jun. 9th, 2008 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amberfocusMy father-in-law went into the hospital last night, had an x-ray taken and was rushed immediately into emergency heart surgery for a torn thoracic artery. He was bleeding quite badly, could have easily bled out if my MIL and SIL hadn't been so quick to take him in when things went wonky. It affected his kidney somehow, which caused numbness and partial paralysis for a bit, which are the symptoms that they took him in for. I have no idea how the heart thing affected the kidney thing, no one has been really clear on that point. But if it weren't for the kidney thing, he'd be dead now, so I guess it's a good thing.
Been on the phone off and on all night with MIL and SIL and DH who is up in Alaska at the moment. And praying more in one night than I've probably done all year. Of course with two very sick kids I can't go anywhere near the hospital until my mother gets back from her trip, which is supposed to be today or late last night, so I can leave them with her and go see him.
It's been such a rough night. FIL is only in his early sixties. I have been prepared for my father to die. He's 73, has Alzheimer's, is in failing health, but there is no way I even thought about my in-laws being anywhere near death. I mean, FIL's parents are both still alive and kicking. Longevity runs in his family. This is just a complete and total shock. I don't know what I would do if my MIL or FIL died. They are so much younger than my parents I have expected them to be here long after mine pass and this incident is telling me that maybe they won't. I love my in-laws so much. We have always had a wonderful and warm relationship and this is just really knocking me for a loop.
I know he's made it through surgery, I know he's safely in intensive care now. But I think I'm going to worry until he's safely home again.
Been on the phone off and on all night with MIL and SIL and DH who is up in Alaska at the moment. And praying more in one night than I've probably done all year. Of course with two very sick kids I can't go anywhere near the hospital until my mother gets back from her trip, which is supposed to be today or late last night, so I can leave them with her and go see him.
It's been such a rough night. FIL is only in his early sixties. I have been prepared for my father to die. He's 73, has Alzheimer's, is in failing health, but there is no way I even thought about my in-laws being anywhere near death. I mean, FIL's parents are both still alive and kicking. Longevity runs in his family. This is just a complete and total shock. I don't know what I would do if my MIL or FIL died. They are so much younger than my parents I have expected them to be here long after mine pass and this incident is telling me that maybe they won't. I love my in-laws so much. We have always had a wonderful and warm relationship and this is just really knocking me for a loop.
I know he's made it through surgery, I know he's safely in intensive care now. But I think I'm going to worry until he's safely home again.
