Josh, Jamie, and I drove down to Vegas late Friday night, stopping in Primm to sleep. On Saturday, October 1, we were due to check into the Palazzo for a trip Josh won through his work. Before we left Primm Josh got a call that his mom had had a stroke and was being taken to the emergency room. It scared us all to death. We knew right away that Josh would never be able to enjoy a weekend in Vegas while his mom was having serious health problems 6 hours away. Josh's brother, Brandon, was nice enough to meet us in St. George and take Josh back to Utah to be with their mom.
Loretta had a lot going on before the stroke. Her father passed away about a week earlier and she had knee surgery about 5 days prior. Needless to say, her body was under a lot of stress. She happened to be in a rehabilitation center for her knee when the stroke occurred so she was extremely close to the hospital.
We are so so thankful that Loretta is doing much much better now, but it really was a scary time. Strokes are never something to be taken lightly. Josh got to spend the week in Utah with his mom and attend his grandfather's funeral the following weekend on October 8th. It was so nice for Josh to have had the means to stay the week and support his mom. He was so cute about taking her blood pressure and monitoring all the readings. He even read through the instruction manual and learned all about systolic and diastolic blood pressure and what means what. I even overheard him on the phone with his dad when he got back explaining how to take the blood pressure right :) Josh got some quality family time in which is sometimes hard to come by. And he feels even closer to his mom than ever, which I love.
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