Phone Conversation with Mom

Dad hasn't offered any blog fodder in awhile...

Os: Hello?

Mom: Hi. I'm calling you from the hospital in Missoula...

O: *blink* (first thought-Dad, but not his heart. They'd have gone to Billings for that.)

M: We flew Dad here yesterday after he started bleeding profusely after his colonoscopy from two days ago...

O: (I didn't even know he was having a colonoscopy.)

M: He's already gone through 5 units of blood, and they expect to keep him here for another day or two...

O: (At least he's not being rushed out of there.)

M: Your sisters drove over yesterday to bring my car over and are on their way back this afternoon...

O: OK...

M: I was going to call you last night before everything happened, but I didn't...

O: (Obviously.) OK...

M: Can you do me a favor?

O: Sure! What do you need?

M: Can you pick up the newspapers from the front door for the next couple of days?

O: OK.

M: OK. Bye-bye.

What's sad/humorous about this? This is almost the full conversation--verbatim. I'll let you know about details later, if I ever get them.

The moral of the story? DON'T LET ANYONE STICK ANYTHING UP YER ASS!

Bit of an update...Dad had 5 polyps removed Thursday during his colonoscopy. His surgeon came over from Missoula to perform it (Moose--help me on that--no one in Helena can do a colonoscopy???). Forward to Saturday. He started bleeding "profusely". They go to the E.R. He'd lost 1900 cc of blood and his BP was 60/32 (isn't that corpse-like?). They pumped 3 units of blood and 2 plasma to stabilize him before they could fly him to Missoula. Once there, they had to stabilize him again before performing another colonoscopy. What they found was 4 nicely cauterized scars, and a 5th one that apparently didn't take, or had a blood vessel sticking out or something, but basically was letting out blood somewhere between the flow of a very drippy faucet and an open garden hose. They cauterized it again, and clamped it off for good measure, and want him to stick around for another day or two just to be sure. Apparently is looking/feeling good, according to S2. Just tired. Change from the above story--the sisters took the car over this morning, rather than Saturday.