10/15/06--More updates on my Dad

So my father is visiting one of his doctors the other day...and while he's there, he began to experience some chest pains.  The doctor got him some nitroglycerin and when my Dad began to get dizzy, the doctor suggested that my father go right to the hospital and called for the paramedics to take him.

They arrive and take him to the emergency room (although the chest pains by this point had subsided)....they run an EKG which is perfectly normal but decide to keep my Dad through the night to observe him.  The only problem is that the hospital their at is not the one that is relatively close to their house--but one that is closer to the downtown Orlando area.  So my Dad is concerned as to how my Mom is going to get home, since the only exit from the hospital is to cut across a fairly major road that does not have a traffic light.  The paramedics inform my Dad that they're going to take care of my Mom.

Mom follows the paramedics out to the highway---at which point they put on their blue overhead lights--stopping traffic in both directions.......

So that my Mom can cross the highway.

I think that's some pretty cool stuff.

Dad is now back home...feeling better...no heart attack.....maybe just some residual effects from his pneumonia.  Mom calls the paramedics before she goes grocery shopping......you know, in case she runs into any major intersections.

Later,
Jeff