So it turns out the 25th anniversary party for my father and step-mom for this weekend has been canceled because my dad is having heart issues. He has to rest and not exert himself so he can't get the house ready for the party and my step-mom is working 7 AM to 9:00 PM every night and the last thing she wanted to do was come home and clean house. So it's off. And hopefully they still leave for Hawaii next week. Anyway, so I find out my dad had a stress test on Monday and they found a "blockage" and they set him up for an office visit with a Cardiologist tomorrow. Okay, that's that and no biggie. My step-mom gives me the entire story that she knows and tells me to call my sister but I'm instructed to tell her to not "panic" because that is what she always does. I say okay and hang up the phone, not realizing how right she was. I call my sister on her lunch break at work, explain to her the situation and she seems pretty calm. I hang up the phone thinking that my step-mom was wrong about my sister flipping out. She calls me back a bit later wiggin out. She's talked to "her nurses" (she works at the VA Hospital as a CNA) and they had this to say and that to say and blah blah blah blah blah. First of all, she completely talked down to me like I knew nothing. Yes, supposedly my dad is still having chest pain and I asked my step-mom why they didn't give him nitro to have at home. She didn't know. I don't know the whole story. So my sister is flipping out about that and then talking about the blockage and a heart cath should have been done right away, blah blah blah blah once again. So I tell her that dad didn't ask where the blockage was located or how much blockage there was (10%, 50%, 90%). THat makes a HUGE difference. Obviously it wasn't a critical blockage or else he would have been in the hospital having a heart cath and possibly angioplasty and a stent placement. She ended up calling me THREE TIMES yesterday flipping out, ranting and raving about her nurses told her this and that and whatever. Am I a little concerned also? Yes. But I'm not going to flip out about it. I do trust the doctor. I'm studying to be a nurse, I happen to trust doctors (most of them anyway). The entire point of it all is we don't know the exact situation. Hell, my dad doesn't even know, he didn't bother to ask (MEN!) so there's absolutely no reason to go getting all up in the air about it. I'm sure there's a specific reason why the doctor did what he did. She needs to calm the fuck down already and wait and see what happens with the Cardiologist tomorrow. Period. The second time she called she was bitching about how she tried to call dad and he didn't answer and how she was going to yell at him and tell him he's such a moron about his health care. Ummmmmmmm do you think that's a good thing to do to an almost 60 year old man with heart problems who already feels bad enough about it? Jesus. Seriously. Some days I think that girl needs to flip the hell out, admit herself to a nut hut and not leave until she can calm herself down for good. So call #3 was about how she did finally get a hold of dad and talk to him about and GASP! he didn't give her any new information that I haven't given her. Then she went into the whole "well, he's just in denial" kind of thing. You know what, maybe he is and maybe he isn't. There are a million things that can be bothering dad but he won't talk about them because he doesn't want to worry people with his problems. He puts on the happy, calm face about things but he always gets them worked out. Maybe SHE should try that approach. So I've decided I'm going to not answer today if she calls. I'm sick of having her flipping out about this. His appointment is tomorrow. He'll do what he needs to do and that will be that. Besides, they leave for Hawaii a week from Sunday and he really wants to go. Let's just hope that happens. But regurgitating the story to 800 people and bitching about doctors and how much of a moron my father is and calling me incessantly isn't helping him at all. Put on a happy, calm face like everybody else is, damn. past and future A few hours my ass! - 2007-05-07
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I am a 34-year-old college student, mom, friend and all around sarcastic and fun loving person. I'm going to school to be a nurse. I recently quit a high paying job from home to get back into the hospital setting and to get my feet wet in nursing. I work on the Maternal Child Unit which includes the birthing center, perinatal care and Pediatrics. I LOVE IT! These last few years have been all about changes in my life. Although they have required great sacrifice, I know it will be worth it when I'm through. I have a great life and great family and friends and occasionally bitch about my white trash neighbors. Mostly here you will find rants and raves about various people, places, and circumstances. ENJOY! Loves: Nursing, chocolate, my daughter, family and friends, diet coke, Grey's Anatomy (DUH!), being out of my front patio in the summertime with my neighbors, babies, US Weekly magazine, reality TV, being smart and being a mother. Hates: Chemistry, online cyberstalkers who have no life but to be online 24/7 causing drama, my white trash neighbors, pepporoni pizza, mice, bugs, when it's too hot outside and I get sweaty, seafood, backstabbing people, liars, crooks, and when people play the "victim" and whine 24/7.
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