WHEN SHIT HAPPENS

We are never ready for it . . .   no matter how prepared for life we think we are we are never ready when the "Shoe drops" or when Shit happens.
We got a phone call from our hysterical (as in UPSET) daughter this afternoon.  I was just unlocking the front door after a day out and about when I caught the phone on the almost fourth ring. I heard my daughters voice and I just said, "What's Wrong" as a million different things were running through my head. Thank You GOD the children are fine and Steve is OK. Sadly Steve's dad is NOT OK. Fred had a blood clot in back of his knee and had it removed yesterday. I don't know any more than that. He was home today and suddenly collapsed on the floor and was not breathing. His wife called Keri and Ker walked Linda through doing CPR until the EMT's could arrive. Steve left to be with his mom and dad and Keri called so upset.
Keri is amazing that way. During the emergency she is cool as a cucumber but afterwards she needs a padded room to release all the pent up energy. When Keri's little brother was 12 our new puppy jumped up and tore part of Kent's ear. Mom had just run to the bank and was gone all of 15 minutes. Keri got a towel to press to Kent's ear to stop the bleeding and she kept her little brother sitting quietly until I got home. Then all hell broke loose and I had one bleeding son and one hysterical daughter.
Today was the bleeding ear all over again just multiplied by a BILLION !  As Keri was talking Linda through CPR she was pacing the dining room where the family had just been having a quiet dinner. Steve left and Kaelin paced next to Keri rooting her on with, "You go mom! You can do it!" Under any other circumstances it would have been quite funny.
So now Fred is in the ICU at the local hospital. He was clinically dead but brought back by the ER staff. As of now he is in a coma and only time will tell how this will all play out.
The week before Christmas and you just never know what life has in store for you. It sort of makes you want to put aside the shopping, wrapping and baking and maybe take an hour out for a visit to church. Or at least a take a few minutes to sit quietly and visit with God and discuss if you are ready to spend the rest of eternity with Him because you just never know when he will call YOUR name.