Daddy's Girl
Jan. 30th, 2010 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiYesterday evening I got a phone call from my dad and the first thing he said was "I'm ok now" which is, as you know, never a good thing, and the second thing he said was "I had emergency gall bladder surgery this morning."
I hate it when my dad has something medical happen to him because it always reminds me that he is getting older and one day he will die. This is a purely selfish reaction, but there it is. We haven't always been close and there have been times in the past that he's done hurtful things (not knowing how much he was hurting me, but that never helps, you know?) but--when my mom went to the hospital with what we learned was cancer and I rushed to Omaha to do whatever it was I could do I met up with Dad at a Burger King and the first thing he did when he saw me in the parking lot was to put his arms around me and say "It's ok, we'll get through this". I'm not ready to think about him dying. I don't know if I'll ever be ready for that.
But he's fine for now, and he should be released from the hospital very soon. I don't have to worry about it. Too much.
I hate it when my dad has something medical happen to him because it always reminds me that he is getting older and one day he will die. This is a purely selfish reaction, but there it is. We haven't always been close and there have been times in the past that he's done hurtful things (not knowing how much he was hurting me, but that never helps, you know?) but--when my mom went to the hospital with what we learned was cancer and I rushed to Omaha to do whatever it was I could do I met up with Dad at a Burger King and the first thing he did when he saw me in the parking lot was to put his arms around me and say "It's ok, we'll get through this". I'm not ready to think about him dying. I don't know if I'll ever be ready for that.
But he's fine for now, and he should be released from the hospital very soon. I don't have to worry about it. Too much.
