Tragedy

It´s been a month since I posted, and what a month. Three weeks ago, I woke up to a bumch of missed calls and found out that my father had been in a serious motorcycle accident. Let me stress that my father is an excellent motoryclist - he´s very good at defenisve driving and, to my knowledge, had not had an accident in the entire 65 years that he has been riding. But a large deer hurling itself in front of your motorcycle is a disaster, and he ended up with many broken bones and internal injuries. 

I immediately flew home, where I joined my mother and brother spending a lot of time in the ICU. He was slowly improving after a week, so then I flew back to Spain to join my friends in watching the eclipse. However, then things were looking worse, so I immediately flew back. (That trip involved three legs and 32 hours, but it was worth it.) My dad was a healthy and strong person when this happened, but spending three weeks in the ICU, which regular health crises and many, many procedures has made him quite fragile. It´s not clear how this will all play out, but I am confident that he is receiving really excellent care and I am so glad that I do not have a job so that I can spend time with my family now.