half empty?

I'm the type of person who is mostly cheery! Happy and content with life...

This week....SUCKED! Yep, all capital letters!

First we had received a phone call that my hubby's grandmother had been admitted to the hospital...she was recently diagnosed with cancer and getting radiation treatments...when all of a sudden, her intestine ruptured. She had emergency surgery...she was frail and lost a lot of weight. She's my grandma too...it was hard to hear all that she was dealing with, when for so long, she's been the caretaker of grandpa. She made it through surgery and has a colostomy bag and will learn to live life in a whole new way....

ok...hurdle number one...thank you God for seeing her through.

Monday...I get a call from my sister that my dad, who is YOUNG, 56 years old was taken by ambulance to the hospital because of chest pains and fear of a heart attack. I live 3,000 miles away...do you know how helpless I felt!?! Wishing I could be in the room and hold his hand...tell him it would be alright and then later yell at him for years of smoking? He's MY dad. Thankfully my sister was able to bring her laptop and we've been 'seeing' each other through the awesome technology of webcams!! He had surgery this afternoon...his arteries were clogged...he NEEDS to change is lifestyle...new diets, no more smoking, exercise!!!! (Dad, I know you read this...you mean the world to me...make these changes!)

I cried on the phone today with my mom...I want them around another 25+ years...but they have to make some changes...I was scared...I'm too young to lose parents...

Hurdle #2...getting through it...but still a bit scared.

Can't tell whether the glass is half empty or beginning to fill up a bit...but I'm ready for the second half of January to be less eventful!!