At the hospital....

On Thursday I got a text from Erick saying his mother was finally having surgery.  She was supposed to have it back in April but it kept getting postponed.  So I decided I would go to the hospital and at least get her something from the gift shop or something.  Well i ended up staying there for a few hours because when I got there, Erick, his dad and his brother Javier were in the lobby waiting to see her. She came through surgery fine and we sat with her in her room for a while.  There was some tension and uneasiness between Erick and I, but mostly everything went ok. 

The weird part of the day was that on my way to the hospital I saw a guy sitting by the side of the road in front of the hospital.  His car was clearly broken down. As I turned into the hospital parking lot I thought it looked like Richard, an old man I used to work with at the airport. I decided I should see if he was ok and went back out to the street. Sure enough it was Richard and I ended up sitting with him outside for almost an hour waiting for a tow truck.  I figured I should stay with him in case he passed out or something.  He's in his 70's or 80's and not in the best of health. I didn't want him to die or something right outside of the hospital and he was already beet-red from being in the heat.  

So last night I went out to dinner with Kristina.  We went to TGIFriday's because I had a coupon for buy one get one free.  I had the yummiest Mango Mai Tai. It was like drinking juice. It was SO good.  After dinner we went home and watched a movie.  Towards the end of the movie I got a text from Erick saying his mom was going back into surgery.  She was supposed to go home yesterday afternoon, but the Dr's said she couldn't pee and her kidneys weren't working.  They were taking her back into surgery to put a splint in her urinary tract so she could pee. So at 9pm I was back at the hospital with Erick and his family. This time Juan and Andy were there with mommas (Javier's little girl), Javier, their dad and their aunt and cousin from Tucson.  We waited while she was in surgery prep area and around 10pm then decided that they would wait until today to do surgery or see if they still needed to.  They had put the catheter back in so she could pee.  I haven't heard anything yet, but hopefully she wont have to go back into surgery.