After dad was released from the hospital, after his blood clot, he had to go to the VA to get lab work done and for doctor appointments almost everyday. The first day mom just took dad and I stayed home with the kids. It ended up being very stressful for mom so I offered to go along and help. From then on we, mom, dad, the kids and I, would load up into our van and we would start our 30 minute drive to the VA.
There were two different ways on how we handle things, if dad had an appointment to see a dr. or we knew it would be several hours. We'd go the the parking garage. Mom would go and find a wheel chair while the kids and I sat with dad and I then would go and park the van. (It usually was pretty busy and it could be hard to find a parking spot in the garage.)
If it was just for lab work to get dad's INR checked, we would pull up to the front door.
Mom would then go in and find a wheel chair. Dad would get unloaded with his oxygen and his wound VAC, which could really turn into quite an ordeal trying to keep all the hoses untangled.
Shhh...don't tell dad he's on here.
I then would drive to a little spot a block over and I would park and the kids would get out to play. Then mom would call me when they were done and I'd go pick them back up. We really got the system down by the end of the visit.
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