I am such a daddy's girl. I'm not embarrassed by it. I don't try to hide it. I love my dad.

I can't watch sad movies that involve parents because I love my parents too much and I just get depressed thinking about what I'd do if anything ever happened to them. They are soooo good to me. I love them. As you know, you probably love your own parents the same.

Last week my dad was out working in his yard building stuff and planting stuff. All his hard works makes me worry a little. You know what they say, "mad dogs and englishmen go out in the midday sun.".. and apparently so does my dad. Summer in the south... it isn't for sissies. But my dad enjoys it. 

My dad is in pretty good shape. He gets exercise, he doesn't smoke, he doesn't eat a lot of junk and he always shuns salt for pepper.

Like I said last week all was grand...until he went in for a routine exam and the doctor heard something abnormal with his heart. This morning they did an angiogram on him and tomorrow he is having open heart surgery. David Letterman claims his quintuple bypass surgery was the best thing that ever happened to him. I hope that's true because you know... now we are talking about my dad. My dad will either be having a triple or quadruple bypass around noon tomorrow. I used to think the higher the number the worse the surgery but now it just all seems scary. No matter what the number is, heart surgery involves someone cutting open your chest and cuttin' on your heart. That just doesn't sound good. At the hospital today, a nurse gave me a book to read about heart surgeries. It was helpful but now I'm freaked out knowing about all the tubes and stuff that will be hooked up to my dad and it involves a ventilator. I think I'd be better if it didn't involve a ventilator. Man, I hate those things.

And my poor mom did something to her back this past weekend. She's made two trips to the emergency room herself. this week. She's been given some excellent drugs but I think she sees purple spaceships when she takes them.  And, she really is supposed to stay off her feet for a while. I'm not even sure she can sit at the hospital tomorrow.  Who knows what'll happen.

So, if you think of my family please say a prayer that everyone will be okay and that my dad will have as quick and easy of a recovery as possible and that when this is all over with that he will be like Letterman and claim that his open heart surgery was the best thing to have ever happened to him.... well, after the birth of his daughter of course.