I just had to put my dad in an ambulance because he woke up at 3am to go potty, and discovered that he couldn't see out of the lower part of his left eye.

Ended up calling an ambulance for him. I decided that an ambulance would be better for him, because if it's a stroke, the hospital would know that he's coming, AND he'd have a bunch of paramedics with him on the way there.

Didn't go with him because my stupid walker takes up so much freaking room. Was going to send my mom with him against my better judgement (not good to let her go alone, because she'll tell them wrong information for a lot of stuff). She couldn't climb up into the ambulance, so the paramedics left her here.

my aunt (the nurse) said it was probably better that we didn't go up there because if he is having a stroke, they'd be doing all sorts of scans on him, and we'd just be stuck in the waiting room. And that's not very comfortable. I'm going to wait till later this morning, then I'll go up there with my mom in a taxi.

I'll be taking the taxi because that hospital is at the limit distance that I'm comfortable driving. I'll end up having to walk around up there at the hospital. Which means I would be too tired to drive home. Even tho they have valet parking, I don't want to have to deal with walking from the front door of the hospital down to the ER if I'd followed them up there. (valet parking isn't open yet anyways)

So all of you who were preaching that I shouldn't be driving. Happy? I know when I should not be driving.

Edit

He didn't have a stroke

The ER called me. It's something called Central arterial occlusion.