Day After Already

Well, we all survived the Big day here.  It's insane!  But all is well on 55-060 Kamehameha Hwy.  On Christmas Eve I got a call from my sister Angie that our Cousin/Brother(the Hawaiian way) Sonny, Abraham Nahale-a, had a stroke and he was in the hospital.  Of course, I wanted to see him.  I called my sister Bobbie who lives here in Laie, and I invited her to go to the hospital on Christmas Day with me in town.  She said, "yes, she wanted to go too".  So I drove the two of us to the hospital.  Now you have to know that I'm not that familiar with a lot of places here, since I haven't lived here since 1962.  Even though I've visited often enough, I haven't had to drive around.  

Jace set up the GPS to the Kaiser Hospital, Halemano site.  I had Bobbie read it while I drove.  We passed our turns twice.  The GPS took us around the block to get us back on tract.  We took the scenic route.  We laughed along the way, like we used to when we were younger.  But we found Sonny, and we got the prognosis of his condition.  He is still as handsome as ever.  He will be 80 in March 2009.  All that beautiful white hair, and curly too.  The next 7 days will determine the outcome of this happening.  Abraham Nahale-a is a big wig of the Shriners all over.  He has been under a lot of stress lately.  So I'm not surprised that he has had this stroke.  He usually takes great care of himself, but he hasn't lately, because of all the duties he has had to fill.  He is engaged, but lives by himself in Kaneohe.  He loaned Jay a set of golf clubs to use while we are here in Hawaii.  Sonny has 9 sets.  For all you golfers, Sonny always heard of that one more set that was going to help his game, make him a better golfer.  

I'm glad we went to see him, and I think he was glad to see us too.