if any of you out there pray

Please keep my dad in your thoughts. He's been sent to the hospital with the possible symptoms of a stroke.


***UPDATE***
It's a little after midnight and I've just gotten home from the hospital. The doctor thinks dad had a TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack), as the tests have come back clean. This means dad is much more likely to have a real stroke in the next year, which is unpleasant, but there shouldn't be any long term bad effects from this episode, which is good.

In a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction moment, as we happened to be taken into the back of the ER to wait in a bed next to the wall, I see my brother-in-law the cop. :) It was wonderful timing, as I started to break down at that point watching my father FALL APART. I have NEVER seen my father cry like that. Mom was telling the doctor that in 33 years of marriage she'd never seen him like this. Mike gave me a much needed hug, and talking to him helped me get myself back under control. I think having a man in uniform asking the nurse if they were aware that we were concerned dad was HAVING A STROKE got us faster attention than might have otherwise appeared. (Since at that point dad had been waiting in the ER waiting room for 3 hours.) And although I'm not a religious person, I got teary eyed when right before he left he asked dad if he could pray with him. Dad being an old-school baptist, I'm sure it meant a lot to him too.

And totally unrelated to anything, I have conjunctivitis. *sigh*