We're still going to Africa...just leaving a little later than we'd anticipated. Last night as we were enjoying what we thought was our last hour with Harper before he went to bed, Thad got a call from his mom. His dad had suddenly lost his short term memory. He was fine and went to take a shower and then after the shower he wasn't fine anymore. We quickly took Harper to our wonderful neighbors' house and headed for the hospital. It was so bizzare because he looked normal and healthly as a horse. He just didn't know a lot of basic information that he should have known. As the night progressed, he seemed to improve a little bit. There were definitley still some lapses, but he was starting to remember more and more. The CT scan showed there was no bleeding on the brain, and that was a big relief. At the end of all of it, they are thinking he's either had a mild stroke or some random thing that I can't even remember the name of. The important part is that he's going to be just fine. Thank goodness. I feel like we are still WAY to young to worry about our parents this way. We love Grandpa Mark and are so happy that he's going to be just fine.
So instead of leaving this morning because we wanted to wait for his MRI results, we are leaving Monday. We'll still fly into Africa with everyone else on the trip and everything will be just fine. And, to make this happy ending even happier, it means I got an extra 1 1/2 days with my boy. We made the most of it. We laid in bed and watched cartoons this morning and played in the pool this afternoon. Now we'll only have 7 full days that we don't see him. And 7 is so much more doable for me than 11, so I'm feelin' good!
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