A Complicated Sendoff

Hey, Amanda.

Hope your week is going well so far. I read elsewhere that M's concert made you cry...aww...

I'm off to my parents' in a bit for official family birthday dinner for me and my bro-in-law J. Since it is also a send-off for my parents, who leave for Europe tomorrow we're only having pizza so mom doesn't have to cook. I wish I could say it should be fun, but I fear the mood will be a bit somber...

For starters, my mother always gets emotional (and nervous) to begin with, but she and my dad went to the hospital today to visit Dad's brother (D's father) who just four days after his double bypass had his colon removed today. I'm not sure what happened between then and today, if they decided to do a CT scan to make sure everything was okay when he was having terrible cramping post-op and found polyps or what, but I do know that when D was first diagnosed her dad had a colonoscopy and they found polyps. I think they also may have removed a portion of his colon then. Regardless, L texted that he was lit like a Christmas tree and my dad and aunt (sister to both) were bawling all afternoon.

Needless to say, it will be a difficult sendoff, one with contingencies I'm sure...the just in case something happens to him, this is where you can reach us kind. Amanda, I have to be honest, I don't have a good feeling about uncle and his ability to bounce back from this. I hate to even breath that into the universe, but I'm scared.

Still, I hope to have fun with the kids and that we can salvage some time for fun in between all the worrying.

On that note, I think I may stop by a place closeby for a little happy hour first...

Talk to you soon.
Love,
Barb