Ooops!

Forgot to tell you about my weekend in the last post.

I call my dad on Saturday morning, and he seems a little off. He keeps asking the same questions and says he is not tracking well. Kind of freaks me out. So I call a friend of his and have him call Dad and see what he thinks (Michael is in Nebraska). Steve calls back and says he seems a little off but he will call back in about an hour and check again. Meantime, Dad has called the shop to check in. He then called back about 30 minutes later and had almost the same conversation. The shop called Michael and Michael called Dad. Dad did not even remember he was in Nebraska. In the interim, I have called Rene and Sammie and they are on their way to Edmond to see what is going on.
I get a call from Steve that says he thinks Dad should go to the hospital to be checked out and Rene and Sammie agree. So, being the good daughter that I am, I ask Dad to do a favor for me and go get checked out. He said he would see. The fact that he did not outright refuse says alot.

So he goes to the ER. They talk to him and determine that something is wrong, and they are going to do a brain scan. Rene, Sammie and Steve are at the hospital and call me to let me know what is going on. They also say they think I should come up. We are at a birthday party, so we leave and I call Jeff, who is at work. He comes home and I pack up and leave. By the time I am about 2/3 of the way there, they call and say he is being discharged. The blood vessels in his brain were constricted and not letting enough blood/oxygen get to his brain and that is the reason he was loopy. They gave him some medicine to take that would help, and told him to see his doctor on Monday. I continue on. I just needed to see for myself that he was OK.
I get there and we talk and he does not remember talking to me, Steve or Michael. He wanted to know why I did not just tell him he was being strange. Hello? Do you think I did not try during the first conversation? Note: When loopy, do not usually listen well.
Everything is fine. His doctor wanted to wait to see him for a couple of weeks so the medicine could have been in his system for a while. He seems to be his usual self.
Just FYI: You can make it from McKinney to Edmond, sleep, go back to McKinney in 21 hours. Thank goodness for the radio and mobile phone.