A Week for Calamities - Part 1

This week was a calamity.  Though a very peculiar one - perhaps one watched in slow motion on television from the safety of the couch.

On Sunday my cousins and I went to see Brave. (It was fairly good)  When we returned home I went to my room and fired up the interwebs per usual.  I here a thud downstairs. This is not particularly noteworthy given there are several young men in the house.  A few minutes later Marc came upstairs to tell me they were taking their dad to the emergency room and would I like to come.  Apparently their dad had fallen.  I of course declined to go to the emergency room feeling that I would most likely just be in the way - especially given that four of my cousins were already going.  Tito Bobbit had not been feeling well at Church that morning and had gone home immediately after to take a rest.  Given that he was already feeling unwell and the exceedingly calm manner in which I was informed of the hospital visit I was assuming it was of the feeling-dizzy-trip-and-fall-perhaps-a-broken-leg variety.

Later that evening when various family members returned home I learned my uncle had a stroke.  That was very scary.

Titto Bobbit will probably have to be in the hospital for about a month doing physical therapy, and he has regained the feeling he lost in his left side.  But other than that he is stable and doing much better.  Everything should be fine and back to normal in the end.  Prayers are of course always appreciated.

But I must say, everyone here has been very calm about the entire situation.  It has made it all a bit surreal.  There have been lots of visitors to the hospital.  Family and friends have shared both their support and their fruit (though I must say fruit baskets beat flowers on the helpful scale any day - and it has also occasioned the creation of an apple pie).  So, while it was a calamity, it   will come right in the end and be a somewhat troubling episode in the run of memories.

I'll leave off here because my news about flooding will make this post far too long.  Come back tomorrow for part two.