Waking up at the early 6:30am time again. I had to get Grace ready for school this morning since Julia is still sick. I already know this means I'm taking Grace to school again. So I get her up early to get her breakfast and get started. She also gets to eat some breakfast at the school early (yesterday she ate Lucky charms...and no, she's not supposed to eat that).
Thankfully, there's no classes today, but there will be some busy times at the bookstore, and I'm scheduled 8-2. Julia is also up and still feeling the same. I tell her to call the doc to schedule an appointment.
I get all my stuff together to try to study while I'm at the bookstore, and head out the door. I arrived at the bookstore at 8am, and began wrapping up all the loose ends I didn't get to yesterday. I thought I might have a couple of hours to get some study time in, but still wasn't sure at this point.
I was looking forward to tonight. My brother-in-law is driving up from Ohio to play in a big dart tournament this weekend. He was leaving around 11am to get to our place around 4.
The bookstore got busy, and I tried to squeeze some church emails and studying in between. That didn't really work out too well.
Julia calls in the late morning and tells me her appointment is at 1:45. That means I'll have to shutdown early around 1pm so I can take her to the doctor.
I leave around 1:10, fly home, get Julia, and head off to the doc.
We get to the doctor, and the nurse takes Julia’s blood
pressure. It’s ridiculously high,
to the point where the nurse took it again to just make sure. Yep. Same reading. She rushes to get the doc. After about
5 minutes of consulting with the doc, she orders at CAT scan. This is where I officially start to get
worried.
To complicate matters, this weekend was the biggest dart
tournament wouldn’t matter. Which
really shouldn’t matter much, except for the fact that my brother-in-law is
over halfway in a 5 and half hour drive from Ohio to play with me.
I immediately talk to our friend living with us, Asher,
about the possibility of watching Grace for some time this weekend. She is more than happy to rearrange her
schedule (to which I was extremely grateful), providing some hope of navigating
all of these schedules this weekend.
I was also scared knowing that studying was probably going
out the window this weekend as well, and knowing that I have a ton of work to
do in Hebrew in Greek, doesn’t make it sound very encouraging once Sunday
night/Monday morning comes.
I drop Julia off at home, pick up Grace at school, and an
hour later greet my brother–in-law as he walks in. I tell him of the situation, informing him that we’ll
probably miss the first tournament of the night so I can wrap up some
things. Julia doesn’t want me to
go at all. I’m not sure how to
navigate, but I take care of everything I can before I go and off to go to
darts.
Of course, I shot the worst darts in 6 months. All I was thinking about was the CAT
scan that got scheduled for 12 noon tomorrow. I was thinking the worst. I know Julia was too.
I wasn’t sure what to do.
If I didn’t play darts tonight, I was fairly certain that I wouldn’t be
seeing my brother-in-law at this weekend, and he’d be by himself, not knowing
anybody playing darts.
It was too much.
I ended up getting home around 11ish, giving Julia some
massages and letting her fall asleep.
I was also making preparations for tomorrow morning, because we had
Fifty6 training early in the morning.
I had to take Grace with me, which made me worry even a little more.
I tried to study some Hebrew, but found myself dozing in and
out. These vowels are going to
kill me though. I’m hoping it gets a little easier once we get this down.
Worse part of the
day: Hearing we have to get
Julia a CAT scan. What if she has a tumor?
Best part of the day:
Not much, other than seeing my brother-in-law and Grace for some more extended
time.
So ends day [004].
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