Home from the Hospital (and IKEA)

After picking Alex up at school today and having our Parent-Teacher conference, we went straight to the hospital to see Aunt Flossie. As we arrived, they were wheeling her out of her room for a procedure. She was a little drugged up – what I got out of her and the nurse wheeling her out was that she may not have had a heart attack, but that there is a bunch of fluid on her lungs. They decided to drain the fluid, and then do a stress test tomorrow to find out about a heart attack. She would be out for about an hour.

We then went to IKEA, which was our original evening plan, to buy Alex a Küllen wardrobe and have dinner. This is the first time we've had the meatballs at IKEA in a long time . . . We all three had the meatballs, and they were very good. Our weekend plans (in addition to going to the Forestry Center with the scouts) revolve around taking EVERYTHING out of Alex's room, including his bed and all the shelves, then putting up his new bed, this wardrobe, and possibly a large bookshelf (in addition to the closet organizer he's already got), then put stuff back in . . . but ONLY what he can put away somewhere.

Right now, Alex generally is not allowed to watch television or play after school until his homework is done and he has cared for his chickens, duck, and dog. He doesn't know it yet, but starting next week that list is going to grow to include his room being clean. If it's a daily thing . . .

From IKEA, we went back to the hospital. Aunt Flossie was much less drugged, and seemed to have much more energy. We found out that she did, indeed, have a heart attack, and that the stress test tomorrow will show just how bad it was. The water on her lungs is something ELSE that is wrong with her . . . she says they removed about 2 quarts of fluid from around her lungs. We visited her at the hospital for about 45 minutes, and then had to head home to get Alex in bed.

On the way home, we forgot that my truck was still parked at work (Tiffany picked me up at work for the conference). A couple more trips across town, and we finally made it home for the evening.