What A Week

This post is to let everyone know I'm still around — but it's been a hellish week. We took my Dad to the MDACC Emergency Center Friday and didn't get home until Monday afternoon. He was doing great Sunday, but after getting a diuretic late that afternoon, he started feeling not as good. Monday came, and he was ready to leave, though still not feeling as well. Fast forward, and today — Wednesday — I'm back up here with him in the Emergency Center.

The Docs aren't totally certain what's going on, but a big portion of it — in my opinion — is stress related. I mean, how can you not feel panicked when you feel like you can't breathe? How can you not obsess over oxygen tanks, etc.? It would be hard to not be OCD with all the crap he's dealing with, and I think that the more he thinks about it all, the more he gets stressed. Stress increases heart rate, heart rate increase triggers faster breathing, low lung capacity and increased breathing makes you freak out.

We do know that they are going to change the medication he uses with his nebulizer. Albuterol just doesn't work for him, but the junk they use up here seems to work a little. Other than that, we just have to make sure he keeps getting plenty of fluids, etc.

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On a totally different note, and in an attempt to have some good news in this post, I have sent a deposit for my tattoo artwork to be done by Hannah Aitchison! She emailed me back and said she'd do the work, and we nailed-down a date at the end of this month. What's extra cool (to me, at least), is that she blocked out the entire day just for my artwork because she knows I'm flying in from Texas and I don't want to be gone long. How awesome is she for that?

She's going to tattoo the full family crest, too, which looks like this:

The background of torn mantling will be totally redone only as Hannah can do it, as will the shape of the banner and shield. I told her, essentially, to take the main elements then do her thing — that I want Hannah's Version. I cannot WAIT to see what she comes up with! I'm also going to see if she'll let me have the original art so that I can frame it and hang it in my office.

Hopefully, for more reasons that just this, my Dad will be better and it'll be okay for me to be gone to Los Angeles for a couple of days. If not, I'll just have to wait a while longer to get the work — but Dad's the priority, of course.

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