Dad usually will call me when he sees something on TV he thinks is stupid, or something he thinks I will find funny, or if he sees something he thinks I will like. Well, let me rephrase that. He will call me when he sees something he think I will like, based on my tastes when I was in high school. No big deal, that was the last time he was around me for a long period of time, so that's what he thinks I still like.
So, Dad called me tonight to tell me about watching a bit of "Enterprise", the last TV incarnation of the Star Trek franchise. He called to tell me that he didn't like that the Enterprise on that show looks better than Kirk's Enterprise and that they should of made it look older. Plus he had some other complaints that he didn't like. We talked a bit about that. Then talked a little bit about what's going on. Then he asked if I wanted to talk to Mom.
So Mom gets on the phone and does the typical, "so how are you?" and whatnot. Then she says, "he won't tell you this, but I will. He almost had a stroke awhile ago." My reply was "What?" She then says louder "A STROKE". I then say "I heard you, I'm just shocked". She then said it was the Friday before New Years. He was going to go work at the bar, and he told Mom he felt a bit dizzy and his arm on one side felt really numb and the other side hurt a lot. He then went to pick up his friend to go the bar(the friend owns the bar). They get to the bar and Dad says, "I have to go the hospital". So, Dad goes to pick up Mom and they go to the emergency room and they take him right back. The normal top number of blood pressure(diostolic...i think that's the bottom one) should be about 120. Dad's was right at 220. They gave him some medicine and said had he waited any longer he probably would of had the stroke. Mom said that she thinks that he was already starting to have it. I then said it looks as if all those years in medical school are paying off(yes, even with bad news I have to be a smart ass.)
Dad gets back on and we talk a bit more. He then says "we'll see you near your birthday. Or you might see your new Dad, depending on how things go." He then says he's been telling Mom that if he dies, she'll probably wait two days and get married again. Forget her kids she had with him and just take on the new husbands kids. Yes, always with the sass.
So yeah, 2007 is off to a good start.
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