HYPE, Thanksgiving and the E.R.

What a week…

I came back into the B/CS last Sunday night for the Thanksgiving holiday. I woke up Monday morning with an important task ahead of me. I received the photos and video clips for the HYPE Thanksgiving Banquet slide show the night before around midnight. My assignment was to put together one of my videos for them to show at the Banquet.

Last year, the video took close to twenty hours of work, due to the length of the video and my relative inexperience creating slide shows. This year I knocked it out in less than five hours. All the ours perfecting videos for the blog came in handy. I was able to integrate video clips and pictures, along with background sound and music. I think it turned out pretty well.

It was nice to not be in charge during the Banquet. Last year, Kaz, Kendra and I were constantly scrambling and worried out of our minds. This year Kaz and I just showed up and did the little things that needed to be done. We corraled kids, boxed up extra food, and took out the trash. It was much more enjoyable to watch from the sidelines.

Kaz and I hit up Wings N More for a post-Banquet wingfest, and we shot the breeze about life, Camp and other matters of importance. I finally got home around 11:30.

Soon after reaching home, Dad came home. He checked on Mom and Grams (Mom’s mom who has been staying with us), who were in their bedroom tring to get to sleep. He came back into the kitchen with a worried look. Grams just had a seizure. We stayed with her and called 911, and firemen and EMTs reached the house in a matter of minutes. By this time, Grams had gotten a little better but was still disoriented. Soon she was surrounded by seven guys in their late 20s to early 30s.

I was hanging out in the room with them while they were taking blood pressure and such, when a thought occured to me. Dad and I always kid Grams about inviting college-aged guys over for parties when we’re not around. I told her that we’d finally caught her with all her boyfriends over, and she was tickled. Less than two minutes later, Dad popped in and said the same thing, and an EMT or two started chuckling.

She headed with them to the E.R., and we followed in the Blazer. Mom went in with her to the room, and Dad and I chilled in the Waiting Room. I had grabbed my laptop, and the E.R. had free wireless internet, so I updated my facebook profile to ask for prayers. I got a few comments on it, and my friend Matt even called to make sure we were okay. I told him we were doing alright, but we’d probably be there a few hours. Sure enough, Matt walks through the doors fifteen minutes later, and waits with us.

Around 3:30 A.M., Grams gets released. The nurse who brought her out happened to be a friend of mine from the Aggies For Christ who I hadn’t seen in a long time, so we chatted for a while then headed home. Turns out Grams’ doctor was trying to wean her off seizure medicine, and this was her first week completely off it. She doing just fine now, but it was a bit scary for a while.

So, my week has been pretty eventful. I head back to Abilene for a few more days tomorrow, then it’s Christmas Break!