Praying and Living

[Holly06]

Hi

We are making some more progress,,, I think.


First of all, the end of this first story is: My Dad is fine. He is 82 yrs old, 5 stints, a minor heart attack that he did not treat, and a history of heart issues...but he still plays golf and does his own yard work. He is amazing,
He was experiencing chest pain and my mom took him to the hospital. He was admitted, monitored, patched and tested. He had indigestion, that mimics heart attacks. Dr. confirm this.

Well Sunday night I called the girls, each one yelled at me for various things and I remembered that TJ has kept me up to date with his parents so I let him know.
Monday morning he responded, and wanted to be kept up to date while Dad took tests. !!!
(My Dad and TJ were golfing buddies, and were really close.)
When I found out Dad was fine, released with no restrictions, I let TJ know. He responed within 1 minute Good to hear

What is with all the smiley faces lately?

Let it all go, until last Friday. TJ's birthday. Had already sent a gift, mirroring his gift to me for my bday.
Sent a very upbeat text, got a disappointing "thx"
BUT I guess he did not like how that sounded so he text again 2 hrs later..."or should I say thx granny.... just a few more weeks!"
Sunday, got a thank you for the gift.
"Thx for the pics of the girls,,, very cool...good memories!!

Well that disappointed me. But I was handling it. See I wanted a phone call. I thought it was time.
Went to bed reading a book and ... the phone rang. It was TJ. We spoke for 14 minutes,,, It was so nice.
He thanked me again(the excuse for the call and told me thought it was very classy....Then proceeded to keep the convo going asking me about school, shared some stuff back and forth about the girls,,,,, he kept the convo focused on me!
There was no doubt about it, but he sounded like a boy calling a girl for the first time. It was a real conversation.
No R talk, and a pleasant good bye.
He was so cute..:)
I just thought I would add to my journal about what might become a happy ending.
Of course, I can not predict the future, who know what will happen, but he is defiantly coming closer and closer!!

Hope this will become something that shows what coming out of the tunnel looks like.
I will be honest, I do not know where he is in the tunnel. It could be replay still, it could be acceptance, or somewhere in between. Could be a touch and go. However, he did not seem at all depressed or withdrawn, he seemed interested in ME!! Testing the waters.
So far it feels good, and I will take it for what it is.
Contact is increasing, he is flirting, and the contact is improving from short texts, to longer exchanges, to flirting, to a phone call.
It does seem apparent to me that he is aware that my impression of him is important to him. All the smiley faces, and he seems to be analyzing what his first response was, and thought his responses were inadequate. His text thank you's could have and should have been enough but he improved them each time!
Hope this helps.