We did get Jena off to Camp K and I started working on getting things together for Rick and Linda to come and stay, cleaning the basement, clean sheets, etc. Then early Tuesday morning (around 2 a.m.) we got a phone call from Charon, Gary's sister. They were in the emergency room at Davis Hospital with Mom Hall because she was having chest pains. It turned out that she had had a heart attack. She had been experiencing chest pain mainly when she laid down at night for the past five nights. She had assumed that her breast cancer had come back. The pain was so bad that she finally called Charon on Monday night and they took her to the hospital.
Tuesday morning, they suggested that they do an angioplasty to check the blood supply to the heart itself. Mom Hall was definitely opposed to open heart surgery of any kind but was willing to do this procedure and allow for stents to be placed if needed but nothing else. They ended up placing 3 stents in her artery which was 100 % blocked. She was in ICU until Thursday afternoon when she was able to come home. She is slow to bounce back but seems a bit better everyday. And it explains her gradually lost of energy over the past few months. Hopefully this will make a big difference in her energy level in the future. She really has great health for being almost 79 years old.
It was a scary few days and everything else doesn't matter as much any more. I didn't get all of things I hoped to get done while Jena was gone, we send Rick and Linda and their three younger kids down to my dad's to celebrate and spend the night, and life went on other places without us. Jena is upstairs now folding laundry which I have been trying to catch up with today.
We were so busy at the hospital that I didn't even take a picture of the snow on the mountains. June 17 we had rain in the valleys but snow fell in the mountains to the east. It is crazy to see new snow in June. It was beautiful against the green trees and bushes.
Such is life.....
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