Mortality

My dad called today. Apparently he spent the night at the hospital. He is home and fine but it seems he went in on Thursday morning to check out some pain he was having in his leg. The doctor asked him if he knew he had an irregular heartbeat. No, he didn't know. Nor did he know that his heartbeat was a bit slow. They checked him over thoroughly and finally told him that he might want to consider getting a pacemaker. He has opted not to do that at this particular time, but it looks like it may be a future surgery.

Yeah. This has hit me really hard. I mean, I know he's 83, I know he won't last forever, I even know that this is fixable in the short run, but I have tears running down my face even as I type this.

My Daddy's heart is slowing down.