Where to start?

Well, it's been an interesting few days. I was at work on Thursday and I got a call from the kids' school... My wife was there with our youngest and she had apparently had/was having a seizure episode and the ambulance was taking her to the hospital right now. Shit... that was out of nowhere. I said I was on my way and hung up the phone. Then it hit me, what about our youngest? Where was he. I called back but there was no answer. I figured I'd call from the car.

I ripped my laptop out of the docking station and heading for the elevators and down to my car in the garage. As I backed out of my spot, it felt like I had a flat. I stopped, jumped out and holy shit, I had a flat! I popped the trunk and started to get the spare out. I couldn't see the lug wrench so I began tearing through the trunk to find it. It was no where to be seen. I put the car back in the spot and called up to my boss 'cause he has the same make as me. He met me at his car and we looked for the lug wrench. It's in a different location and we couldn't see it. After about 2 minutes he said "Fuck it - get in!" and he drove me all the way to the hospital. Thank God for a great person for a friend who also happens to be my boss.

At the hospital they assessed my wife and decided to send her to the next hospital west of us to have an MRI. This was opted for because she's recently pregnant with our fourth so that ruled out a CAT scan. I'll cut to Thursday night when she was admitted to the hospital... she has a condition called AVM and it is the trigger for the seizure. There are several options that may be available to her for treatment but we are waiting to meet with the specialists to learn what the best course of action is.

We've had an extremely positive response from family and friends offering support. It's amazing the impact my wife has had on our community since we moved here 6 years ago. She has a lot of friends that really care about her and that's helped make some of this bearable.

I can't imagine that I'll feel much like posting up here so the updates will be slow. Needless to say, all extra stuff in our lives is on hold for now, especially since I don't feel comfortable leaving Marie at home alone for any length of time. The specialist should be able to help me understand what the limitations are. I'm gonna request alternate work arrangements so that I can work from home a couple of days a week that way I can be around and not push my mother-in-law too much by relying on her for all the extra work. I'm also gonna get a cleaning service in to help keep things in order since I'm gonna be working, playin' Dad as usual and now playin' Mom too all on top of the extra work for caring for Marie. This is not a pity party, just an assessment of what I have to deal with and a realization that there's only so many hours in the day and so many things I can do in those hours. Pardon the stream on consciousness here, but that's part of why I started doin' this blog thing. Besides, if GeWilli can do it, I'm allowed to open the mind's floodgates and let 'er rip! Ya gotta laugh at times like this, it helps me cope with this kind of thing.

Anyway, please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we navigate through all this schtuff.

g.