Saturday, March 5, 2011

Heartattacks for Valentine's Day

I know this post is way way late!
So Sam and I spent our first Valentine's Day as a married couple (and our first one where we are in the same state) packing, making planes, and flying to Mesa AZ.
Lets back up some. Sunday night Feb 13th Sam got a text sayint that his dad was going to the ER. Next text we got was Dad had a heart attack and is being Airvaced to Chandler Regional. Sam call his teacher and told him the news and asked it he could go home. His teacher said if he went home that he may have to start the class all over again in March with the new class. My poor husband had such a torn heart about this, after 2 months of class he would have to start this whole thing over again, but for once he was able to come home when his Dad was hurt. Than we were told that he was going into surgery, Sam called his teacher again and gave him an update. He told him he had leave time if he wanted to take it. Sam and I talked, called my Mom and Dad, and checked our banks. We prayed and we felt we needed to go home, my Mom was in Kansas and had passes on her, our taxes came in the day before, and Sam could take the leave, there were too many things in place for us not to go. By the end of the night Sam's two of three sisters in Utah where on their way driving, and Sam's Dad had a Temp pacemaker in, and my mom was booked to come in at 9 the next day.
Monday Sam went to work filled out his leave forms and everyone signed off on it right away, He met with the Officer in charge of the his squadron and he told him that everything would be here waiting for him when he got back, but he needed to go home and take care of his family and not worry about work. Sam stress went right out the window when he said that. We had a late flight because that was the only one we could get on, got in AZ at 10pm. Got our rental car, and went to see Pa Fuller. We were at CR just in time to see him and say a family prayer that had such a sweet loving spirit in the room. Sam and I left to head to my house, we stopped and got some Filie B's and went and ate on the bed in my old room.
Before we left Oklahoma, Sam got a small gift from me. We also had to get my birthcontrol filled before we left, so we took turns looking at cards while we waited for my Rx to get filled. Than we got home signed our cards in different rooms and handed them to each other. Nothing like we had planned in doing, but it was a sweet thing to fly together next to each other and enjoy the time together away from work and stress.
Pa Fuller was able to go home on Thursday, Feb 16th. We had a great time see everyone one on his side, and we saw about half of my family and a few friends. It was a good trip to see everyone, but Sunday we were very happy to come home and spend the day just us and having the whole day Monday together to unpack and rest. I loved our fun times together, and I think that our Holidays will get better.

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