so i'm at the hospital right now
my dad texted me at 11:45 this morning--apparently she'd been in the hospital overnight (which i didn't find out until i got here today, THANKS FAMILY) and had to have her appendix taken out.
so she went in to surgery at 4:40ish, i came after work and got to spend like an HOUR talking to megahn, who i haven't seen in like A YEAR, and katie just now was okay'd to come out of the recovery room and see dad and her mom.
let's talk about how awkward things were when i got here:
my (well, OUR) dad was here. meg and kate's mom and grandparents were here.
dad and mary (meg and kate's mom) had a terrible divorce. i mean TERRIBLE. meg and dad don't talk--well, meg doesn't talk to dad. katie still does, obviously, but meg hasn't in like two years.
their grandpa is pissed at dad, has been for years. god knows why. i obviously have issues with dad i'm working through. mary clearly does.
the most un-awkward person in the room was their grandma, who even smiled at me and said hello and asked how i was doing and what i was doing.
meg and i basically moved to a couch away from everyone else and watched as mary and the grandparents sat at a table with a couch in between them and the table dad was at.
although mary did smile at me and crack a joke and make eye contact, SO HEY PROGRESS.
although i don't like her very much, she was basically the worst person ever to me when she was married to my dad, but she is the mother of my sisters, who i love more than ANYTHING (let's put it this way--i'd volunteer for katie in the hunger games), so i tolerate her.
anyways. waiting to be able to see katie before we can leave.
it's been a looooooooong day. also, STARVING.