Leaving work early

I'm leaving work an hour early to go to my 3 month follow up eye appt. It's pathetic how excited I am about this.
I'll find out if I need touch up surgery (please no!) or glasses or if my vision is acceptable now. Hopefully the latter!
Work can be so frustrating. I feel like I'm always forgetting things. But on the other hand, the things I'm forgetting are issues that I've emailed people about for information, and then they never get back to me! If they don't get back to me, then it falls off my radar screen, cause in the meantime there's a bunch of other issues that have now jumped forward.
Sigh.
So my coworker has pushed her surgery forward to April 24th, my other coworker is going in for some treatment possibly next week. So I get to take on a lot of their stuff, eek! Of course I want to take a week off while they're both out as well!
The managers know about it already though, so they'll just have to figure it out and deal with it.
They'll figure out either
a) how much work we do indeed do for them
b) that they can get along just fine without us
c) some combination of a & b
In the meantime, I need to write up some updated procedures for what I do.

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Dad just called, Mum's in hospital due to a small heart attack (or series of attacks) she's apparently had pains in her chest and going down her arms for the last couple of days.
She's in the ICU tonight, but should be coming home tomorrow. This is probably from the low hemaglobin that she has. She's been on Procrit for it, which did help. But it's been low for a long time, so her heart has had to be working hard to pump the blood around. Like dad said, something her Onc. Dr. should have been more on top of.
Grrrr.
I'll talk to her tomorrow when she's back at home, and Dad will call me tonight with an update.
God, this all brings us together as a family, but it's been so fucking wearing on us all too.

update on my mum

They're going to keep her in for two nights. She's having an angiogram done tonight (very soon actually) where they put in a small scope through the femoral artery, to see how bad the damage is. Even though her EKG is better now, she's still having chest pain so they want to have a look. If there is damage, then they'll do some thing where they inflate a balloon there to open things up, or possibly put in platic stents.
Dad's gonna call me tomorrow morning to let me know how it went.