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My father had a stroke
"There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man, with human flesh."ב״ה it was only a minor one but still.
-From "Collected sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
On Monday, the day both sets of grandparents were supposed to have a dinner together with Laila and
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Long story short, the MRI did show a stroke, though the above-mentioned 1 out of 45 means that it only did extremely minor damage. The far two fingers on his right hand are still tingly, and he had to readjust the way he uses his right hand for delicate operations like shaving and playing the euphonium. According to him--he was just here with my mother and sister to pick up Laila and take her to the zoo--he's already adjusted to a new shaving pattern and played the euphonium just fine after a short bit of work. When he was here in the brief interactions we had, he seemed like exactly the same person I've known all my life.
It could have been so much worse, and if it had to happen I'm glad that it happened the way it did since now the doctors can keep an eye on him and do tests to prevent it from happening again. They were going to give him medicine to dissolve any clots while he was in the hospital, but they ended up deciding against it since literally every time the nurses checked on him he was up and walking around his hospital room (being sedentary is one of the biggest risk factors). He's on a blood thinner now and, as he put it, while they had him in their clutches they wanted to talk to him about his cholesterol, so when they came over they brought approximately two pounds of butter over for us. Dietary cholesterol isn't as important for blood cholesterol as people used to believe but I can understand why he's being extra cautious--he has a granddaughter he wants to see grow up.
Am I worried?

If he's already feeling well enough to take Laila to the zoo today and work on our new table a couple days ago (though as he said, he's staying away from the bandsaw for another couple weeks) that's a good sign.
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