You know, I wasn’t too excited about going. And now I wish we were there rather than here trying to deal with what we are dealing with.
If you have been to DST and read my thread about emergency passports, you’ve already read what has happened, I’m going to post here. I just need to type.
Do you remember when I went off a little about how I like John McCain, and kind of went off on an immigration thing? I told you about Pato’s dad being sick?
Well, yesterday he went to a new specialist. His doctors have pretty much exhausted all options and sent him to this other doctor. We got a call from his sister from Mexico. His dad was told he has 2 months too live. His kidneys and heart are failing. (Pato used the word destroyed.) They asked about a pacemaker and kidney transplant. His doctor said he wouldn’t make it through the operation. His heart is in that bad of shape. And even if he did, it would only add a month or so onto his life. That I didn’t understand. I mean, if he made it and he had the pacemaker and a new kidney, wouldn’t that make it better? I don’t understand.
And I’m so stinking mad at the American Embassy in Mexico right now for denying his medical Visa. What if they had approved it? Would he have been up here now with a shot at more of a life? His dad isn’t even what we would think of as old. He’s barely 50. Younger than both of my parents. When I was going off on my rant about our government, Pato said, Heather, we have good doctors in Mexico. We really do. The problem is to get to a doctor who can help him, they have to drive to Mexico City, I can’t remember if it’s a 6 hour drive each way or a 3 hour drive each way. There’s 6 hours there somewhere. Pato’s mom doesn’t drive. And his sister didn’t used to drive out of the city that they live in.
When we went to Mexico last time, Jordan and I were there for 2 weeks. Pato stayed for 5 months because there was no one to drive his dad back and forth to Mexico City. And that was when his surgeries had started. I guess driving in Mexico City is absolutely crazy dangerous. He said it’s worse than any American city he has driven in. I was scared when we were driving in Leon, Mexico. And he said, it’s 200 times worse than Leon.
I have no idea who is driving his dad around there now. Maybe Yudi (his sister) has learned how to drive in a more congested area?
So, where does that leave us right now? Completely up in the air. Understandably, Pato wants to leave, like yesterday. His dad has never met the girls and he has been begging us to bring them down since Katiana was a baby. We just haven’t been able to afford it.
Now we’re trying to figure out whether we can afford for all of us to go to Mexico right now, or if I have to stay back with the kids. Passports need to be gotten, I have to figure out school for Jordan. Obviously we can’t be gone that long because of him being in school, but Pato wants to go until something happens. Rent has to be paid in advance. Bills. Ugh, my head is spinning thinking of everything that has to be done.
Even if he goes by himself, I told him that I want rent paid 2 months in advance, which we have right now. It’s the rest of the bills and money for living that I’m concerned about when he goes. Oh the stress. And the fact that my girls have never met their grandfather. I want them to meet him.
Pato has today off, so we’ll be talking and figuring out logistics and all that today.
Oh, the best part, if we drive, which we most likely will. That means that I will be coming back over the border by myself. With 3 kids. And driving from Texas to Iowa, by myself, with three kids. Oh the insanity that awaits me. Pato said he’d drive with me back up to the border. So, at least I wouldn’t be lost in Mexico where I don’t think the GPS on my phone works.
So that’s what’s going on here.
After all that, I just don’t feel right posting my products and specials, so I will say, they are in yesterday’s post, along with a coupon in the post below this one. Feel free to check them out.
I hope you have a good day and hug your loved ones!
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