Bad News

I went to my daughters Blog on which she shares her hopes, fears, triumphs and defeats.
I celebrated the 10 o'clock mEaster Mass at Holy Trinity Collington. We were going to have a family day. The girls, husbands and the grandchildren were all going to be at our Celebration. The Service went very well, but no one showed from my family.
I of coursee catastraphsied. They were all dead in a massive car wreck.
We were going to Lauras for the family Easter Dinner.
When we got home to get the Deviled Eggs Bonnie checked for voice mail messages. We got a strange one from Laura. She was sick and Erica had a melt down and went to Church in Alexandria, Va..
Anyway we got there and Laura was up after staying the morning in bed. I figured she just over did with all the Preparation. She has Coronary Artery Disease.
We had a good time, turned out that the Ham was cooked by Erica and was a little over done, but quite edible. We all had a good time and we left the house at around 3:00PM.
So we got home and talked about Florida.
On Monday evening, yesterday, I checked Laura's Blog-IEPMOM. It turns out that Laura was indeed. ill. It had been 5 weeks since she had any chest pain. She wasn't taking her Rx as directed--skipping days or multiple days. She was indeed doing too much. Friday she was very tired so she sat down for a while and she felt better. Saturday she cleaned the downstairs cause she was having company on Suncay and she felt it needed it. She had Chest pain. She took one of her pills and it didn't do anything. Her Doctor told her if this happened she should take another pill. So she did and the pain went away. But she was beat. So up to bed she went. Erica came over to get the Ham to cook at her place. Laura was too tired to get up in the morning-the Circulatory System is a closed Hydralyc system. What ever affects the pump affects the entire system. She came down shortly prior to our arrival. But she just said she was sick.
In the Blog Laura said that she felt that she was getting "normal" and could do stuff. Craig her husband, said that that wasn't true. She thinks she should better. Once you have Coronary Artery Disease you have it for life. You never get better. Normal is accepting this and being compliant about your medicine. Take it as directed when directed.
Laura is in deep denial. She wants to be Normal again--like she was prior to Coronary Artery Disease. But as they say in 12 Step Programs Accetance is the key. For if you don't accept the nature of your illness you will succumb to the life of an invalid long before you need to.
I went 13 years between my first attack and the second, and then 4 years to my By-Pass Surgery. I then had a 6 year period between the Bypasws and the next Angeoplasty. The occurrances are getting closer cause they are babying me along until I need a new By-Pass Surgery. Apparently my grafts are getting Flacid and some day they will collapse on me.
So I exercise am trying to lose weight--19 lbs so far. That's what Laura needs to do.
What scared me the most was her final line. ""I need to get up stairs and clean it cause it needs it." I hope that was a morbid bit of Gallows Humor.
I am very worried about Laura.
Fr John