10-7-15 Wed.

I went to visit brother Al, at Kaiser Hospital yesterday morning. Of course the parking lot was full and I had to use the valet parking, which is technically free, but it's hard not to give these guys some money.

Anyway, if you're familiar with Kaiser at Zion, the hospital side of the building is the far West wing. As I walk through the doors that open automatically all the memories of many trips to the emergency ward with Harriet came flooding back and it was really quite amazing. The thought that came through my mind almost instantaneously was that I never wanted to come back in this building again. But, sanity prevailed, I was there to see brother Al and that's more important than anything else.

Brother Al is 92 years old. Both of our birthdays are in September just 4 days apart. So whenever we have a birthday, we always celebrated together. He's doing remarkably well. The reason they put him in the hospital is because there are some the tests that they need to run to determine what's going on, they didn't want to do one test and then wait a couple weeks for the results and then do another test and so on. While he's in the hospital, they will do a battery of tests and determine exactly what is the problem. I was there when the doctor came in and she said that there is fluid, not in his lung, but in the space right under the lung and they don't know where the fluid came from or what type of fluid it is? So they're going to determine these things and then figure out what to do.

 

Harriet and her brother John

Maranatha,
Frank