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Weekend So Far
Feb. 18th, 2006 04:57 pmFriday, 1:35pm - Jeannie panics because her ride to the airport doesn't show up. I leave the office at a run to drive her to the airport. (This is okay with me. I like Jeannie, and it got me out of the office early.)
2:05pm - I call Miss V to ask her if she can follow up on the last road show detail for me, so I don't have to come back to the office. She is gracious in saying yes.
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queenofhalves calls to let me know her other friends are ready to bring her to my location
5:40pm - While I'm sitting at the restaurant waiting for them, my college boyfriend calls me and we chat while I'm waiting.
6:05 - QoH shows up, escorted bylordandrei and shimmeringjemmy. Before the evening is over, I feel honored all over again at being QoH's friend, since all her other friends that I've met are so damn cool.
8-ish -- After a great dinner, I take QoH home for conversation.
11:15pm - We stop talking and go to bad.
11:35pm - My father calls to tell me his neighbhor is driving him to the hospital. My mom is across the country visiting my sister. I get out of bed and drive to the Eastside emergency room.
Saturday 12:10-3:30am - I am in the ER with my dad, who is suffering instense pain from abdominal distension with unknown causes. I am not skilled in being present with people who are suffering, especially someone like my father who tends to be very healthy and stoic. I don't think I've ever seen him in pain like this before. We talked a bit, and I held his hand a lot. A couple of times he told me to go home. I told him that I wasn't going anywhere until he was either released or admitted to the hospital. Eventually they did admit him and I came home.
7:30am - Dad called to say he was out of pain, but they still were going to do a CT scan.
9:30am - I got up, and QoH and I had our traditional IHOP breakfast
10:30am - We got back to my house and did tarot readings. QoH did one for me about the new relationship that I'm developing. It was very positive. We also did two for her. As usual, several of the same cards, including major arcana, came up for both of us, even though we shuffled thoroughly. At some point during this, my dad called from the hospital to tell me they were keeping him at least through evening to determine if all his systems could cope with solid food and normal elimination.
11:30 - QoH and I had a long conversation that ended up being a major healing & transformational experience for me. It's complex and very personal, so I'm not going to discuss it here, but it was mind-blowing, and left me speechless at several points, groping for words to explain insights and new paradigms.
1:30 - I take QoH tolexicat's home, return to my own home, and take a nap.
3:30 - Dad calls from the hospital to say they are keeping him overnight because even though all systems seem normal, the results of the CT scan has not come back and his systems have not demonstrated they are fully normal. I feel good about this, because with my mom across country it's good to have him somewhere he will be under observation. If they had released him, I would have stayed with him tonight.
5:37pm - I've had a light dinner here at home, and am about to take a shower, get dressed, go to the liquor store to buy some Crater Lake vodka, and head forlexicat's house to join the potluck already in progress to celebrate QoH's visit to our city. lordandrei, shimmeringjemmy, royalbananafish (all of whom I've met) will be there, and I'm looking forward to seeing them.
And then I'm -- hopefully -- going to come home and get a great night's sleep.
I'm hoping the next 24 hours are a bit less eventful. . . .
2:05pm - I call Miss V to ask her if she can follow up on the last road show detail for me, so I don't have to come back to the office. She is gracious in saying yes.
5:30pm -
queenofhalves calls to let me know her other friends are ready to bring her to my location5:40pm - While I'm sitting at the restaurant waiting for them, my college boyfriend calls me and we chat while I'm waiting.
6:05 - QoH shows up, escorted by
lordandrei and shimmeringjemmy. Before the evening is over, I feel honored all over again at being QoH's friend, since all her other friends that I've met are so damn cool.8-ish -- After a great dinner, I take QoH home for conversation.
11:15pm - We stop talking and go to bad.
11:35pm - My father calls to tell me his neighbhor is driving him to the hospital. My mom is across the country visiting my sister. I get out of bed and drive to the Eastside emergency room.
Saturday 12:10-3:30am - I am in the ER with my dad, who is suffering instense pain from abdominal distension with unknown causes. I am not skilled in being present with people who are suffering, especially someone like my father who tends to be very healthy and stoic. I don't think I've ever seen him in pain like this before. We talked a bit, and I held his hand a lot. A couple of times he told me to go home. I told him that I wasn't going anywhere until he was either released or admitted to the hospital. Eventually they did admit him and I came home.
7:30am - Dad called to say he was out of pain, but they still were going to do a CT scan.
9:30am - I got up, and QoH and I had our traditional IHOP breakfast
10:30am - We got back to my house and did tarot readings. QoH did one for me about the new relationship that I'm developing. It was very positive. We also did two for her. As usual, several of the same cards, including major arcana, came up for both of us, even though we shuffled thoroughly. At some point during this, my dad called from the hospital to tell me they were keeping him at least through evening to determine if all his systems could cope with solid food and normal elimination.
11:30 - QoH and I had a long conversation that ended up being a major healing & transformational experience for me. It's complex and very personal, so I'm not going to discuss it here, but it was mind-blowing, and left me speechless at several points, groping for words to explain insights and new paradigms.
1:30 - I take QoH to
lexicat's home, return to my own home, and take a nap.3:30 - Dad calls from the hospital to say they are keeping him overnight because even though all systems seem normal, the results of the CT scan has not come back and his systems have not demonstrated they are fully normal. I feel good about this, because with my mom across country it's good to have him somewhere he will be under observation. If they had released him, I would have stayed with him tonight.
5:37pm - I've had a light dinner here at home, and am about to take a shower, get dressed, go to the liquor store to buy some Crater Lake vodka, and head for
lexicat's house to join the potluck already in progress to celebrate QoH's visit to our city. lordandrei, shimmeringjemmy, royalbananafish (all of whom I've met) will be there, and I'm looking forward to seeing them.And then I'm -- hopefully -- going to come home and get a great night's sleep.
I'm hoping the next 24 hours are a bit less eventful. . . .
