A Beautiful Noise: A Neil Diamond Musical...amongst the other commotion in life...

As this is technically the May 2-4 weekend, it began nicely when I'd gone with the nuclear family to watch the Mirvish performance of Neil Diamond's music on Saturday evening at The Princess of Wales Theatre. We dined at Lee Chen's restaurant before and all in all we had such a lovely night and stayed over at Ames' place as the show ended pretty late so we all were out pretty late.
This is where the beauty in the noise ended.

Next morning, I woke later than normal to have a short exercise session in my sister's study while mother was already up watching some of her previous evening's recordings. Considering most of us are morning risers, we'd already gone for a Timmie's run (via Mom) and had our caffeine/brekkie by just after 8 am when Ames had risen and started roasting her coffee. At this time, I had packed my stuff in a backpack luggage and mom & dad had put away the pull-out couch and moved her furniture back to how it was. Then as I was working on my shoes on by her door, I heard a huge commotion occurring in Ames' kitchen...Dad had inadvertantly fainted by her kitchen counter (was also not making sense as he was garbling some nonsense as he was going down) and luckily has fall had been broken by both mom and Ames as they were right there and they gently laid him on his back on her kitchen floor and propped up his head on a sofa pillow as Ames immediately dialed 9-1-1, spoke to an operator giving all the information.
Luckily, he was out for approximately 5 mins where by this time I had wrestled my shoes off, unlocked the door and came to the scene, immediately rubbing and placing pressure on his chest to keep the heart going.

As scary as this all was (and he quickly came to), because he was sweating profusely and a bit confused as to what had happened, we made sure to keep him comfortable on the floor until the emergency attendents arrived (point to note is even though we had dialed the emergency number, because Dad HAD come to as we were speaking with attendent, the emergency vehicle came down church street - luckily we can see from Ames' window at a comfortable pace EVEN stopping at the lights - I suppose the urgency had been dialed down during the phone discussion).
The ambulance brought him to St Mikes at 8am to get tested in case it was a heart attack or stroke and luckily all of this was ruled out as they'd concluded after testing that Dad had fainted due to dehydration.

This is where this story gets more crazy as while waiting at St Mikes in emergency, Ames and I had headed out to grab some food for lunch and as we were walking down the corridor passing other emergency rooms, we literally passed another room and like in slow-motion, Ames and I did a double take as we totally saw our Aunt Irene...apparently she'd also had our other Aunt Hwang admitted to emergency a few doors down from dad as SHE'D apparently fallen at home by herself a couple days ago (not clear how long) and after not answering any phone calls had gone in person to find her on the ground.

On a positice note, Dad was discharged (they think he fainted because of dehydration) but Hwang stayed overnight (and has been admitted for a longer duration as she's in much worse shape with a fracture in her ribs, hence needing surgery-just not immediately as due to her being on the floor for at least three days there's much dehydration and cardiac stress.

Still much TBD in the upcoming days/weeks...