Aero
08-06-2007, 01:14 PM
Hello everyone. Yall may have noticed my disappearance from the forums for the past little while. I just thought I would explain why I fell off the face of the earth.
Well, most of the time I was gone has been because I have been getting ready for college and planning several trips. I leave August 18th for school in Prescott AZ. I am attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Now Prescott is a mere 1800 miles from my home in Chicago, so I have been trying to get together everything that I will need. Normally college students can split the cost of this stuff with a roommate, but I just learned my room mate is coming from India, so he can't really bring too much with him.
Now as I said, I was also planning 2 trips. The first of which was a road trip that one of my friends and I have been wanting to go on for a long time. Well, with certain time restrictions we had to change that to a backwoods camping trip to Land Between the Lakes in Kentucky.
The second trip is actually a road trip with my dad to Prescott. Him and I were to drive out there with all my stuff, take a few days, and travel the old Route 66. Both he and I were really looking forward to this.
Now just a few days ago, I found out that the odds are neither of those trips will happen.
About 2 weeks ago my mom and dad went on their own getaway to Michigan. While on that trip my dad thought he hurt his back. He came home, iced it, rested, but it still hurt. Then he got a cold...or what we call walking pneumonia. Now normally that would be enough to make life miserable, but no, theres more. He goes to the doctor and the doc asks for several xray and an ultra-sound. After these we find out that his heart is the problem.
See my dad has a bad mitrol valve. Basically when his heart pumps, blood enters, and then upto 40% of the blood can leave again due to the bad valve. Making his heart work harder. Couple that with the fluid in the lungs from pneumonia, and you got trouble. Now there fluid around his heart that is caused by an infection aswell.
So heres the summary:
I leaving for college (1800 miles away) in less than 2 weeks.
My dad has pneumonia, a bad valve on his heart and will need to have that fixed soon.
But that can't operate untill he gets over Pneumonia.
So now the good news. My dad has his own business with one other person (co-owners). And about 3 days ago they had to decide whether to keep their insurance the same, or lower it. They were going to lower it, but then decided to keep it the same. Talk about luck.
Well, most of the time I was gone has been because I have been getting ready for college and planning several trips. I leave August 18th for school in Prescott AZ. I am attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Now Prescott is a mere 1800 miles from my home in Chicago, so I have been trying to get together everything that I will need. Normally college students can split the cost of this stuff with a roommate, but I just learned my room mate is coming from India, so he can't really bring too much with him.
Now as I said, I was also planning 2 trips. The first of which was a road trip that one of my friends and I have been wanting to go on for a long time. Well, with certain time restrictions we had to change that to a backwoods camping trip to Land Between the Lakes in Kentucky.
The second trip is actually a road trip with my dad to Prescott. Him and I were to drive out there with all my stuff, take a few days, and travel the old Route 66. Both he and I were really looking forward to this.
Now just a few days ago, I found out that the odds are neither of those trips will happen.
About 2 weeks ago my mom and dad went on their own getaway to Michigan. While on that trip my dad thought he hurt his back. He came home, iced it, rested, but it still hurt. Then he got a cold...or what we call walking pneumonia. Now normally that would be enough to make life miserable, but no, theres more. He goes to the doctor and the doc asks for several xray and an ultra-sound. After these we find out that his heart is the problem.
See my dad has a bad mitrol valve. Basically when his heart pumps, blood enters, and then upto 40% of the blood can leave again due to the bad valve. Making his heart work harder. Couple that with the fluid in the lungs from pneumonia, and you got trouble. Now there fluid around his heart that is caused by an infection aswell.
So heres the summary:
I leaving for college (1800 miles away) in less than 2 weeks.
My dad has pneumonia, a bad valve on his heart and will need to have that fixed soon.
But that can't operate untill he gets over Pneumonia.
So now the good news. My dad has his own business with one other person (co-owners). And about 3 days ago they had to decide whether to keep their insurance the same, or lower it. They were going to lower it, but then decided to keep it the same. Talk about luck.