My Dad

Recent events have threatened to turn me into a no show on the blogosphere again, so I thought I'd give a little update, just in case I do disappear for a while.

My dad was rushed to the hospital Friday night. My youngest sister was with him and noticed that he was behaving oddly. She decided it wouldn't be good for him to drive so she drove him home. When they arrived, he was unresponsive, so she ran to get help. Somewhere in the course of things he stopped breathing, but a quick thinking office staff at his apartment complex found a maintenance man who knew CPR and they were able to revive him and keep him breathing until the ambulance arrived. When he got to the emergency room, they did a CAT Scan and told us it was likely he'd had a stroke. A few days and an MRI later, the Dr. said that he did indeed have a stroke, and it wasn't his first. They found evidence of many previous strokes located in the memory and balance centers of his brain, which would explain a lot of his behavior recently. He seems to be stable right now, but the doctors are still trying to figure out where the blood clots are located that keep causing the strokes so that they can decide how to proceed. My sisters and I have been scrambling trying to get information and figure out what to do after this.