We visited Angharad's parents at the weekend and got a call on Sunday night from her sister who'd been called by my sister as they hadn't been able to contact us ...
The message was not a happy one:
My dad has had a heart attack and was in intensive care in hospital.
It was a while before I managed to speak to anyone over there with people probably out but I eventually spoke to his wife who says he's doing Ok and has now been moved to the main ward but is being kept in as you would expect. He may have to be moved to Calgary for some investigation / tests.
He had heart surgery about 15 years ago and I think 4 of his 5 bypasses have failed so he has to take quite a bit of medicine for pain and stuff. Silly bugger doesn't slow down though and is always doing things round the house and helping people out.
I'm pretty worried as you can imagine and am looking at flying over to visit him in the next week or so if I can (get a flight & get time off but I don't think this will be a problem).
I don't know yet whether to invite my sisters to come with me as I know where I'm going (they haven't been over to visit) and I know he'd really like it. Perhaps 10 hours on a plane with 'the anti-christ' would be too much for them? What do you think - I've been 'the shunned black sheep of the JW family' for the last couple of years?
I'll let you know what happens.