Hmmm… according to my computer, I’ve used this title before. It had to be last year, if that’s the case because we haven’t had any snow days this year… until today! And thanks to Mother Nature, I can post something.

Please forgive my lack of an update. It’s been a grueling week. It turns out that my dad wasn’t discharged from the hospital on Tuesday. In fact, he is still there. I had some very scary moments yesterday. I’d called him in the morning to let him know I was going to come up to the hospital later. He sounded like he was having a lot of difficulty breathing. It scared me. I’ve never heard him so bad. To make matters worse, he had about 30 seconds to tell me that he was being taken to a different facility across town for a PET scan. He needed to hang up with me so he could call my stepmom to let her know not to come up.

The PET scan made me nervous. No one had mentioned it before, so I wondered what had changed. I waited about 10 minutes and then I called my stepmom. No answer. I called my stepsister. No answer. I left messages with both and my stepsister called me back a short time later. She didn’t know anything either, but told me she’d see what she could find out and call me back.

At 4:30, hearing nothing from anyone, I finally called my dad again. I was relieved to hear that he sounded much more like himself. Kat and I went up to see him that evening and we were actually there when his doctor (who is also MY doctor) made his rounds. He told my dad that pending the results of the scan, he could go home on Wednesday. (Due to the weather forecast, they weren’t going to release him today.)

Dad called me a few hours ago and told me that the scan was negative. So, tomorrow he goes home! That’s even better than a snow day, in my book.

Spring break is next week. Today is the 26th of February. You know what that means? NaBloPoMo Monthly starts in just a few days. Get ready for all those lists that I compile in my head on a daily basis. It’ll be scintillating.*

Until then, today’s snow day means I have twice as much work to do tomorrow, so quite possibly I will spontaneously combust (that’s a test to see if a certain person is still reading - and she knows who she is) and be unable to post anything until March 1st. But we’ll see.

ETA: I have a working washer again and much to the relief of my colleagues, I have clean clothes to wear to work.

*Probably not so much, but scintillating is such an awesome word, don’t you think?

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