Okay, yesterday officially sucked. Here is an update:

First, Dad got mixed news. The good news is that two of his cardiac arteries are still open, which means his condition is not life threatening. The bad news is that he needs to be exercising to keep them open, and he can't. He has a leaky valve (inoperable at this time due to the scar tissue around his heart) which prevents him from exercising. Hopefully, laser surgery will develop to the point that it will be an option soon.

I got all that news this morning right after I got two BAD rulings on a case I am handling. So, instead of having a nice easy week, I have to do a ton of research and draft an immediate response to this ruling. Sigh.

So, with all that weighing on my mind, the wife decides to stop in and take me Christmas shopping. Like I'm in the mood.

We went to the Dallas Galleria (very upscale, but nice), and after moping about for a bit, we decided to stop for lunch in hopes that a bite would cheer me up. We had just finished, and my mood had noticably improved, when we got a phone call from our nanny.

She told us our youngest daughter, Katie, had "fallen out of the upstairs window, but was okay. And that the ambulance was getting ready to take her to the hospital."

Huh? Yup -- she seemed okay, but my 13 year old daughter thought Katie was acting funny, so they decided to take her to the hospital "just in case".

Five hours and a bunch of x-rays, a cat-scan, and various other tests later, including (oh joy) a urethra cathetar, we find out she is okay, just bruised a bit.

We managed to get her home, and fed her a little chicken chunks from a nearby food-stop.

We didn't realize how nauseous the Tylenol-Codeine had left poor Katie.

Do you guys realize how disgusting processed, regurgitated catsup, chicken chunks, and waffle fries look on new, beige carpet?

Katie has thrown up two or three times, and had dry heaves on and off.

And tomorrow, we still have to do Christmas shopping, and I have about 13-14 hours of work to finish up.

Sigh. Thanks for your prayers, though -- without them, I'm sure today would have been worse.

I'll try to be back to normal in a couple of days. I just hope nothing else exciting happens. I don't think I can take it.

In better news, I talked with my computer guru last night, and I think we can get a nice gaming laptop for about $2K, and can upgrade my primary computer for about $500. So that will be nice -- but it can't be done until after Christmas. Oh well.

God bless,

Steve
- posted by MrSpkr @ 11:30