Really Bad Day

I thought about titling this post worst day of our lives but that sounds kind of like I am challenging God to show me the worst. I am not, simply saying that today was really really bad. We got up at 3:30 am, got dressed, drove 4.5 hours to the airport. Waited 2 hours to board. Arrived in Chicago at 12pm, ate, checked email, checked in for our next flight and waited...3 hours. 15 minutes before our plane to Frankfurt takes off, Cortney and I call the families one last time to check in. My call goes okay, Cort's...not so well. We are told that his dad is in the hospital getting a heart cath!! Heart cath??? We talked to him at 12 and he was feeling under the weather but for an emergency heart cath we knew something was really wrong. Well, there was. He had a heart attack and was having triple bypass open-heart surgery within the next hour. Needless to say we missed our flight. We were sitting there in the floor crying not knowing what to do. We couldn't get home for 8 hours and we have a baby waiting for us in Ethiopia. AHHHH!!! All we could do was cry. I cried all over the airport, to every ticketing agent we could find. We didn't want to do anything that would take us away from cell service so we could get the updates. So for 9 hours...we sat in the terminal, waiting for something. Neither of us really knowing what. We just sat there and cried. Then after 12 hours of sitting at Chicago O'Hare airport we got the news that Cort's dad came through the surgery with the best possible outcome. He is still in ICU but the surgery went well. We are kind of in a stand still right now not knowing what to do. I guess we will start trying to make decisions tomorrow. Please pray that this all works out and that Cortney's dad is back to his chipper self quickly.