Monday, December 26, 2005

i'm going to post on xanga and my blogspot, because i'm pretty sure more people check xanga even tho i use this now.

you never think about things like how many people spend the Christmas holidays in the hospital, whether as the person being hospitalized or the family of that person, until you experience it.

that was my family's holiday this year. we left our house a couple hours earlier than expected on saturday [and skipped the christmas eve service at my church] and headed down here to columbus to riverside hospital, where my uncle mervin is. saturday late afternoon he was vacuuming, and thought he was standing on the other side of the stairs that he actually was, and he took a step back and fell head-first backwards down the stairs. my uncle is blind, by the way. he had a bad skull fracture and, as the doctor put it, a huge blod clot. they finished surgery while we were still on our way down, and then we went and saw him. he has tubes coming out of his head draining the blood. it's sad.
sunday morning we went to church, and then back to the hospital. since we were in the ICU of the Neuro center, i saw a lot of tears. that was a sad thing to see on Christmas day. people were camped out in the waiting room to be near their loved ones, possibly in the last moments of their life. it really broke my heart.

anyway, i hope everyone's holidays were good. please pray for my uncle, because if he recovers, it's going to be a long recovery. and after all the time he spent in the hospital when i was in high school when he got shot and went blind, this is just the icing on the cake. just pray for him. this is rough stuff for the Christmas season

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