Here we are once again, off on another adventure. I haven't blogged about our trips so far in 2010. A quick recap. During the last days of the Olympics we received a phone call from April's daughter asking us to come to Halifax asap. It seems April's grandson - Zac, 19 yrs - was in Halifax hospital and was only given a 20% chance of surviving. Apparently he was sitting on the family couch with his little sister - Payton, 13yrs - when he coughed and started bleeding profusely. Payton took one look at him, got up and called 911. This probably saved Zac's life. The doctors tried to stop the bleeding from his lung but they were not able to do so. Zac was whisked off to Halifax (he lives in Fredericton NB) because they have the best thorasic doctors.
To make a long story short, we could not get a plane out on the last day of the Olympics and had to be satisfied with the red-eye arriving in Halifax at 7 am. When we arrived at the hospital, Zac had been in a coma for 5 days and not getting any better or worse. On Thursday he finally started fussing and it seemed he was trying to come out of it and finally on Friday morning, he opened his eyes, spotted his grandmother (April) and he said "Well look who it is!". From then on he has been getting stronger every day. He got out of hospital and was home on Mar 8th. More testing has been done since then but there is still no reason found for the bleeding and the doctors do not know what caused it.
We did get to play for one day and took a trip to Peggy's Cove. It was bloody cold and as windy as I have ever seen but beautiful, clear day. We enjoyed the break.
