You never really know how important someone is until…

You never really know how important someone is until you’re trying to get work done and all you can do is worry about that person being okay. Right now my father-in-law Elliott is in surgery for his back. It’s a surgery that’s done regularly so I shouldn’t be worried or anxious, but I am.

My wife got up this morning at the crack of dawn to go to the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania with her parents to keep her mom company during the operation. It really didn’t make any sense for me to go then because all they would be doing is waiting in the waiting room for hours. Our plan is for me to come down later to visit and take my wife home, she’s going to be exhausted.

But back to the point of this post. My father-in-law and I get along. I wouldn’t say we’re so buddy-buddy that we would go on a fishing trip together, but we get along and enjoy each other. He’s actually a member of my networking group as well so I see plenty of him. Even with seeing him twice  on most weeks, I never totally realized how important he was to me. I know how important he is to my wife. Besides being her father, they worked together in the mortgage industry until my wife left to manage a sports ticket company. But now that something serious is happening I realize how important he is to me as well.

When you get married you always hope to get along with your in-laws and luckily I do. But to be honest, they’ve become more than tolerable, they’ve be come family and I love them.

So I guess what I’m saying is that, though I know he’s going to be fine, I never really new how important he was to me until this operation.

Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. He’s a tough guy and he’ll recover just fine, but every thought helps.

Thanks

Update: My father-in-law is out of the hospital and recovering in the hospital for the next couple of days.