After messing around with the garage clean-up in the morning (again, I wasn't much help), we thought about heading to see Dad after lunch. I had spoken to him and he said he got 2 blood transfusions already, for anemia, and he was going to get an MRI soon.
We got to the hospital, the whole family, around 2:30 pm and he wasn't in his room. Nurse said he went for an MRI, he's been gone a long time and could be gone a bit longer.
What do you do with kids while you wait in a hospital? First we took them to the balcony to take in the amazing view, it was incredible. That was short lived so I thought about finding food, always a good distraction.
The first cafe was closed so we headed to the 24 hour cafe (should've listended to the guy who said "floor 3" while I insisted we head a different direction). I got a chicken meal, Michael and the kids...I don't remember what the kids got! I think the three of them just got drinks?
We headed back up to his room and waited another hour or so. During that period Dr. Hunter visited and gave us the rundown. The "working diagnosis" is multiple myeloma, they needed to do a biopsy (on Tuesday since it was a holiday weekend). Dad had high calcium in his blood. Because I did a little research already I knew there are 3 stages, and we wouldn't know how far along he was until biopsy, so I remained positive. I texted my brother about the situation. Finally Dad returned at about 5 pm.
We were glad to see him, he was glad to see us. He looked tired but he was positive. I think he was also enjoying being waited on and the room service!
We visited for a little bit, and left around 6 pm. We were exhausted from waiting so we opted not to attend either of the 2 parties going on.
In hindsight, I should've come up with a system to be informed about his day - he could've called before he left and upon his return, for example. First lesson about hospital visits.
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