Dad

my father just called, and thinks he may have had a heart attack early this morning while he was taking a shower.

he started out the conversation, though, by calmy discussing, at length, that link i sent him and had put up as a post here, featuring the guy that plays with your cursor - remember that one?

anyway, it took him a long time to say, "uh... look... i have a problem.. a pretty big problem actually... i think i had a heart attack."

he said he just didn't know what to do, so he went back to bed to sleep, and woke up this afternoon.

he seemed calm, and, not exactly confused (not more than usual), but he seemed lost.

he said, "my heart doctor told me to call him ... he wanted me to see him again, but i owe him a lot of money ... what medicare didn't pay... so... i don't think i can go in..."

i told him, "dad, you don't have to see the same doctor. he's not the only heart doctor in town, is he? in fact, you don't have to go to any specific doctor anyway... you just go to the emergency room, and they HAVE to take you. doesn't matter whether you have money or not."

then he said he'd been getting ready to go to his psychiatrist for his ADD meds, which are going to run out tomorrow. his psych gives him enough samples of some things to get him through the month, and would give him a prescription for the med they can't hand out.

he was obviously worried about it all running out tomorrow, and mentioned he can't call that doctor because he hasn't paid his cellphone bill (though he said he has enough cash on him to pay it), so his cellphone is cut off.

i pointed out, "you can call the doctor from the hospital. that's what the good lord invented payphones for."

and he sighed and said, "i suppose... but you never seem to be able to find payphones anywhere anymore!"

so i reminded him, "dad... hospitals always have payphones. if nowhere else in this world, a hospital emergency room will. but look... your number 1 priority right now is to get to the emergency room. once you get there, your number 2 priority is to work on the meds. if the hospital admits you, you can tell them what you're on, they'll call your psych to confirm, and they'll give you an emergency supply. or you can call the doc yourself from the waiting room and tell him what's going on."

i asked if there was someone from his apartment complex who could drive him in, and told him to call me from the hospital. then i called my sister at her work and let her know what's going on.

i then called my dad back to make sure he was going (he was waiting for a cab), and to remind him to bring my and my sister's phone numbers to the hospital (he has them on his palm pilot, he assured me).

so... the rest is waiting.
  • Current Music
    Timna Brauer And Elias Meiri - Ne Me Quitte Pas

E Ticket

This is how it works: Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter.
Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an
explanation what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to
those who want to play along.


wring gave me E...

embarrassed - the story of my life

enduring - the other story of my life

enthusiasm - something i've never really felt

empathy - something i used to feel all the time but fear i've been losing the past year or so :(

epilation - the method i've used for years to remove the hair on my legs...

Ecstasy - something that was fun to take a couple of times...

evidence - the way i like my science to be based

entertainment - what makes it all tolerable

e-music - from whence i download music these days

end - of this excercise, gott seit dank.
  • Current Music
    Uhuru - Sei Yona - Timna Brauer (Israel)

that silly mp3 meme

1.Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each
question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it
doesn't make sense. NO CHEATING!
4. Tag 10 people to play this game
too.

(i DID cheat a bit by bypassing most of the foreign songs, of which i have many, since few people on my list read spanish or arabic or russian, etc... just left one german, and one spanish/arabic song on)


How are you feeling today?
Gypsy Countess (pentangle)


How do your friends see you?
Epic (faith no more)


Will you get married?
Funk Soul Brother (fat boy slim)


What is your best friend's theme song?
Lucky Star (basement jaxx)


What is the story of your life?
I like the Way You Move (outkast)


What was high school like?
Dirty Lowdown (boz skaggs)


How can you get ahead in life?
Some Kinda Freak (mephisto odyssey)


What is the best thing about your friends?
Only Women Bleed (alice cooper)


What is today going to be like?
Din Daa Daa (george kranz)


What is in store for this weekend?
Rock the Casbah (the clash)


What song describes you?
Don't Touch Me There (the tubes) (hahahaha....)


To describe your grandparents?
Wolf and Sheep (wolf) (seems to be a middle eastern rap group - not my son)


How is your life going?
Mr. Boombastic (shaggy)


What song will they play at your funeral?
Ojos Asi (shakira)


How does the world see you?
Bring Me to Life (evanescence) (wish this one had come up for what to play at my funeral :D)


Will you have a happy life?
Little by Little (robert plant)


What do your friends really think of you?
Cha Cha Cha (mo' horizons)


Do people secretly lust after you?
Leichenhalle (die aerzte)


How can I make myself happy?
Groove Me (king floyd)


What should you do with your life?
The Taste of Ink (the used)


Will you ever have children?
Future Proof (massive attack)


I tag whoever has an mp3 player.
  • Current Music
    Massive Attack - Future Proof