What a day.
Winter break ended today for the kid's school, so we had planned to go to this little free event at a nearby mall, this thing with sort of Chinese "Light sculptures", basically big colorful paper sculptures with leds inside, so they look all pretty. There was also supposed to be stores and a variety of Asian food carts.
First, before we leave, the kid's mom sends me a message: her dad, not technically my father in law anymore but still the kid's grandpa and someone I'm fond of, who also has some severe health issues that led to him being put in an elderly care facility recently, seemingly had a stroke and though conscious, is unresponsive. Later they found it wasn't a stroke, but pneumonia, but it's worrying that it affected him cognitively. He's sedated now while they administer antibiotics.
We agreed to proceed with my plans and not tell the kid anything until we know more.
Then when we're at the thing, my mom calls me to tell me she's feeling strange and has a weird feeling on her chest. Tells me not to worry right now but she'll tell me how it goes. Again, can't tell the kid anything so as to not worry her, but what if she's having heart issues, and right as the other thing is happening? What do I do with kid if I have to rush to mom's?
It passed, thankfully, and she realized it was probably just a small panic attack due to having been stressing out all day about some dream she had.
Then, when we're home, kid's getting ready for bed, and our dog, the blind, old greyhound I adopted some months ago, wakes up screaming like he's never, ever before, and gets up but can't use one of his legs, and the screams intensify. We checked the leg and it was all fine, no injuries of any kind.
Then, just like that, it passes and he's walking around fine. Guess he had a painful cramp as he slept and it woke him up like that.
What a day.
Oh and, this pales in importance in comparison, but the Chinese thing was a huge disappointment, there were a handful of statues, pretty on themselves I'll admit but they were placed in some parking lot so the setting so to speak looked like shit. In previous years they'd done this same event at a prettier place, some kind of park I recall, so it looked much better. And the food carts were just the most typical cliched chink food you can find at any chink restaurant. Fucking chop suey and spring rolls. As for stores, there was a heavily panda-themed one but there was nothing that we wanted to buy, in fact, everything in it was the same kind of chink shit you get at any of the millions of chink shit stores around here.
So we said fuck this and went to the mall for some burritos. Kid had some fun at least. She doesn't know anything of what's going on, except for the dog, and I hope everything turns out as well as it can be expected, but I'm worried for the grandpa.
What a fucking day.
