This month was full of pleasant surprises.
The first weekend of July was spent on that cabin trip with my friends. We came back Saturday afternoon, and my parents came up to visit the next day for Fourth of July weekend since we all had Monday off.
We went to eat dim sum at Canton House for lunch, and saw that it was still as busy as ever lol. I think we waited for around 30 minutes to get seated, and almost every cart that passed us was half empty.
Later that night, we sat outside on the porch to watch all of the fireworks around our neighborhood. Our neighbor had some fireworks and set them off pretty quickly. However, someone else in the neighborhood next to us had a bunch and set them off for a long time.
The weird thing was that someone kept on setting off fireworks every night for the next couple of days, too.
The next weekend, Carina and I drove over to see Alec's new house that he bought last year. Because of the pandemic, we hadn't seen each other in over a year, so it was really nice to grab lunch and catch up. And Alec's house is so nice! He's always had a lot of plants since his last apartment, so his house was really nice and green everywhere lol.
The next day, we went to The Garden Room for Shelle's birthday. It's a fancy restaurant that's Instagram famous for it's decoration, and you have to pay the $100 per person deposit when you make your reservation. It's so fancy that I had to wear a dress and makeup. Luckily, I already dressed up the week before for our Fancy Schmancy on the cabin trip, so I wasn't too rusty with my makeup lol.
The food was really good, so I could see the appeal.
A couple of days later, my mom got a call from the hospital that said that she was one of four people eligible for a kidney transplant, so my family spent the next day waiting to hear the results. This was ironic because my dad was trying to convince her to go to Florida for a mini vacation a few days before that, and mom said she didn't want to because she didn't know if she'd hear back from the hospital about a kidney transplant. Then, a couple of days later, it actually happened!
Then, on Tuesday at 11PM, mom got a call to go to the Augusta hospital asap to prepare for the transplant! My dad drove three hours to get there at night, and they waited until noon the next day for my mom to get some tests done. By the time the staff notified my dad anything, mom already finished her surgery that night.
The next day, after Shelle and I finished our morning meetings, we drove three hours to the hospital. Dad took us to the ICU to see mom who had just woken up from all of the anesthesia and could barely talk because she was intubated until earlier that morning. We got dad lunch and checked into a nearby hotel and brought dad over so that he could shower since he had been staying in one of the family waiting rooms near the ICU this whole time. Then, we stayed at the hotel and worked all evening, which really sucked.
We stayed at The Partridge Inn Augusta, which used to be a mansion built in the 1800s. It was quite interesting since some of the hallways dipped down for a bit so there were stairs for those portions. Also, Augusta is so humid, even the hotel room was kind of damp.
The next day, we stayed at the hotel to work before grabbing lunch and going to visit mom at the hospital. She went out to do some x-rays for the next hour, so we actually didn't see her and so left to go back to work until the evening. Then, we took dad out to eat since he's just been eating hospital food whenever we weren't there. We tried to get him to come back to the hotel with us and sleep in a real bed since he's been sleeping in a two-seater couch in the waiting room this whole time, but he refused because he wanted to keep mom company.
The next day, I drove dad back down to Warner Robins so he could pick up more clothes and do some errands around the house. There was also a pile of mail that he had to go through. By the time we drove back to the hospital, it was already dinner time, so we had a quick dinner with Shelle at the nearby Subway before Shelle and I drove back home.
We drove back to the hospital to visit mom the next Friday after work. Because she knew that she'd have a lot of hospital visits after she got discharged, Shelle had found her and dad an extended stay hotel nearby, so they wanted us to stay there for that weekend to see its conditions. So we went to check in at the hotel first, and we chose the accessibility room since that's what mom wanted, but the room smelled like tobacco smoke as soon as we went in, so we changed rooms to a normal double bed room instead.
Shelle drove dad and Kyle back home the next morning so that he could do more errands around the house and the farm while I kept mom company at the hospital. Brian drove up with some friends to visit later in the day.
He only stayed for an hour because he and his friends were going to a friend's going away party in Atlanta after he visited mom. We all told him that he could just visit mom the next day so that he didn't have to do some much driving around and bringing all of his friends, but I think he just didn't want to drive by himself because he never does long trips by himself. Mom even told him not to bring his friends to the hospital because there's not much room for visitors, but he still dragged all three of them with him! He freaking said that they were going to do something else while he visited, but no, I had to take them to the waiting room so that they could settle down somewhere.
Anyway, Brian continues to prove that he's a disappointment in the family. No wonder mom and dad don't trust him with anything important. I found out last week that he didn't even know how to cook rice properly.
We were originally planning on going home after dad came back, but mom said that she might be discharged on Monday, so we stayed another day. Unfortunately, she had some complications, and her sodium levels were too low, so she had to stay and wait for another day. She actually wasn't discharged until Thursday, and we were already back home by then. Luckily, Shelle had already booked the hotel room for them and showed dad the directions, so they knew where to go after they left the hospital.
We stayed and kept mom company until the next day so that dad drove home and did more errands and drove back the next day. Mom can walk around by herself now, but she still needs help with anything bending over like getting on the bed. She's also a lot weaker now, so she sometimes needs help opening her medicine bottles. Man, she has to make so many pills with every meal and before bed, it's insane. Luckily, she feels better every day.
So yeah, it's been very busy these past few months. I'm incredibly happy and grateful that my mom was able to get a kidney transplant since she's been on the waitlist for the past two years and was estimated to get a transplant in seven years. Hopefully, everything will work out okay :)
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