What's Important?

My dad has not felt very good for quite some time. He was having horrible headaches and was nauseated and sick. On Monday, August 16th he had an MRI, on Tuesday the Dr. called and said that he had bilateral subdural hematomas in his head. Scary!!! He got in to see a Neurosurgeon on Friday and was scheduled for brain surgery on Monday, August 24th. The surgery went well, and he is recovering. Not a fun thing to go through. We're so glad everything has turned out good for him. On Thursday evening, my sister Shauna (she lives in Kennewick, WA) called and said that their family was almost to Pocatello. She didn't want Mom and Dad to know that they were coming, they were going to stay in Idaho Falls that night come to Blackfoot Friday morning. She said that they had decided that it was more important to come and be here for Dad than anything else that was going on in their lives. That kind of got the ball rolling with the rest of my sisters and brother and put things in perspective for all of us. As it turned out we were all here on Monday when he had surgery. I hope he knows how important he is to all of us and that we love him and appreciate him for raising us and loving us and being such a good example, he has definitely made a difference in our lives. We love you Dad! And Mom! It is never easy to see someone you love suffering and sick, I know that it has been really hard for Mom, and I know she loved the support of having all her kids here.

While we were all together, we had to get a picture. So we went outside of the hospital to take some snapshots. L-R, Lynne (came from Woodruff, UT and missed her 4 oldest kids 1st day of school), Tricia (drove from Georgia with her husband and 2 month old baby), me (I didn't have to come very far!), Randy (came from SLC and skipped work), Suzanne (flew in from South Carolina and left her husband to care for her 4 kids), Shauna (her family drove from Kennewick, WA).One of the kids watching us take pictures said "Pull a funny face", it was a very natural reaction for some of us girls to reach up and pull Randy's face! Yeah, he's picked on with 5 sisters! But he loves every minute of it!