Good weekend gone bad

My sister came in this weekend for Josh's birthday (even though it's not until next week). Well, we made plans to go to the Splash Pad, but all of a sudden, the weather was iffy. So, we made quick plans to go to the Children's Museum if we needed to.

We were to meet mom & dad for lunch on Friday and then decide what to do. By Friday morning, the weather looked decent enough to try the Splash Pad (Leslie - this is the BEST place to take the kids - I'll email you more info later). We got a call from Dad and he said they were either going to be late or not at all. Mom wasn't feeling well - her blood pressure had shot sky high - again. Anyway, we decided to wait and see if they were coming. They did - about 30 minutes late, but that's okay.

We went on to the Splash Pad and the kids had a blast. Callie had the most fun I've ever seen her have - she was very bold about the whole thing (and she's our cautious one).

Anyway, Friday night, I got a call from Dad. He had taken Mom to the ER because she was having chest pains and her BP went back up again - this was fairly late, so we didn't really know what was going on until the next morning.

Mom called Saturday morning and confirmed she had had a mild heart attack Friday night! They took her straight down for a heart cath. The doctor said if 1 artery was blocked, he'd do a stent, otherwise, it was going to be bypass. Luckily, there was only 1 artery blocked, but it was the main artery and it was blocked 99.9%. They put 3 stents in that artery.

She's doing much much better today. She had a small episode where she thought her BP was dropping too low (because of all of the medicine), but it wound up being her blood sugar. It was too high. She's suspected that she's had a problem, but hasn't done anything about it. That episode passed pretty quickly and she was feeling much better.

She's suppose to come home tomorrow night, we hope. Thank goodness, it wasn't any worse than it was.