Things really can change in an instant. After a busy day at the shop I strolled through the sunshine to go have dinner with mother, the world seeming about as reasonable as it gets. There however I was greeted with the news that having only left Sheffield the day before, my Dad had been taken into hospital after a heart-attack. Such news that suddenly brings the world to a shuddering halt. The good news, if such it can be called, is that apparently he seems to be ok, sitting up in bed and reading and so on, but still my Dad's second heart-attack is still a serious shock. My brother and sister will be going up there tomorrow, wish I had means to make the trip too, still they'll be phoning me at some point to let me know how things are going. I'm told he'll be having tests, an angiogram which involves putting a catheter into the arteries and introducing a kind of dye into the blood so that circulation can be seen by X-ray and any blockages or narrowing or arteries shown up and treated with angioplasty where necessary.

Hopefully everything will go ok. Not really sure what to think at the moment as causes and prognosis remain unknown. I shall just have to wait and see and hope I suppose. More than strange to think how only just on Monday we were walking down into town together, him to go into work and me to catch my train back here. He'd seemed perfectly fine all weekend as far as I could tell. I'm reminded very much of the events of his first heart-attack. It was around my birthday and I was coming back from visiting my mother up here in Whitby on the train, looking forward to some fun and enjoyments only to find my step-mother waiting for me at the train station with the bad news. Now virtually the same thing has happened again. Hopefully he'll recover as well from this as he seemed to from the first and maybe they'll find some root cause to his heart problems that can be dealt with. Hopefully.

For now I can but wait and worry and see what turns up from the tests. Not much more I can say really. I hope that the world is currently being rather kinder to everyone else. Now I shall see what news tomorrow will bring.