Hospital Trips: What we all need on Memorial Day

Of course, what else do you want to eat when you are under observation for a heart attack....? You guessed it, Dunkin' Donuts. Funny though it may be while posing for the picture, it's still pretty scary. I'm glad her spirits are high, but it is not a fun prospect to have your mom in the hospital. And why is it that whenever you REALLY want to get somewhere in a hurry, you are made to travel far SLOWER than normal? Between 95S and 9N, then trying to get through the Middletown section.... I wanted to RAM ever car in front of me. However, I just hummed along safely behind everyone. You'd never know I was in a hurry, it was only my internal monologue that was hurling profanities at the twits in their SUVs and mini-vans choking the road.

They had both left Brian's wedding reception early and quickly last night. I presumed it to be due to a not uncommon intestinal distress, perhaps from the food. But when I got home at almost 4 am I found out she had been having rather severe pain in her left arm. She had also felt disoriented. So they came home, she took some tylenol or aspirin and rested. Today I woke up at 1pm, because it's a holiday and I wanted to sleep in, dammit! So I came downstairs and the note left for me said they had gone out for brunch. Ok, no alarms there. It wasn't until just after 5pm, after driving all the way to Tori's, then Mystic and whatnot for Panera and Coldstone (yummy!) that I got a call from my dad saying they were at Mid-State and had been there since 9:30. I'm guessing we all want to look back at my last posting now in reference to Mid-State, don't we? So I just got back from being there. Again, she is in high spirits, has GREAT blood pressure (I mean, almost ideal at 127 over 74) and they are holding her until tomorrow to run stress tests and see what they can find.

I feel REALLY beat right now.