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I think what LiveJournal is really excellent for is news stories that you don't really feel like explaining/telling over and over again.
This has been a stressful week.
Yesterday I got back from Indianapolis. My grandma was basically sleeping most of the day; she's really worn out, her hemoglobin being so low. Tuesday she was fairly alert the whole day, however. That same day, the doctor in the hospital explained to her that the transfusions were no longer really doing anything to keep her hemoglobin and platelet counts up -- she went from two months between transfusions to one month, one month to two weeks, two weeks to a week between. Over the past week she's had three transfusions. Tuesday she decided (rightly) to no longer take the transfusions, and seeing as they had taken her off the saline drip, she was moved from the hospital back to the nursing home.
My mom would start crying briefly whenever the subject of stopping the transfusions came up. She was exhausted by the time I left, and it showed on her face. My grandmother will stay at the nursing home and continue to lose hemoglobin, which will make her really tired and sleepy. I doubt she'll wake up today, and I reckon she'll pass away quite soon. She is not in any pain and she will go in her sleep, and really that's the best that any of us can ask for. I assume I'll be going up to Indianapolis for the funeral soon. Whatever.
So I get back yesterday to discover my bank account severely overdrawn (thanks in part to ridiculously high overdraft fees). Long story short, through an utterly asinine accounting error which was entirely my fault, I mistakenly believed I had roughly $475 more than I actually do. See, actually, I have $0. But now I owe over $400 on my credit card from the cash advances I had to take out to fix the checking account problem. My bank charged me a total of almost $130 in fees.
While all of this has been supremely, hilariously, wonderfully stressful -- I really have let myself get quite stressed out about it -- really it's not so bad. I will just be flat broke until I get some invoices paid. If everything goes as it should and my previous invoice isn't paid, by the end of next week I'll have somewhere between $1300 and $1900 (wide range, I know) in outstanding accounts receivable. I got some new freelance stuff, which I'm pretty happy about.
The bad thing about being unexpectedly broke is that I was planning on visiting New Orleans towards the end of the month -- Nick is coming into town and the couple people down there I talk to have been nagging me to come visit for months (but I've been too busy and too poor to go). Of course, I was planning on going because of all that extra money I thought I had. Well, I don't have it. If by some miracle those invoices end up big and are paid by that last week of March, then I might still be able to come. I am not really holding my breath though. But we'll see. It will be a last-minute decision.
Other than all that shit, things have been pretty good.
Ha.
This has been a stressful week.
Yesterday I got back from Indianapolis. My grandma was basically sleeping most of the day; she's really worn out, her hemoglobin being so low. Tuesday she was fairly alert the whole day, however. That same day, the doctor in the hospital explained to her that the transfusions were no longer really doing anything to keep her hemoglobin and platelet counts up -- she went from two months between transfusions to one month, one month to two weeks, two weeks to a week between. Over the past week she's had three transfusions. Tuesday she decided (rightly) to no longer take the transfusions, and seeing as they had taken her off the saline drip, she was moved from the hospital back to the nursing home.
My mom would start crying briefly whenever the subject of stopping the transfusions came up. She was exhausted by the time I left, and it showed on her face. My grandmother will stay at the nursing home and continue to lose hemoglobin, which will make her really tired and sleepy. I doubt she'll wake up today, and I reckon she'll pass away quite soon. She is not in any pain and she will go in her sleep, and really that's the best that any of us can ask for. I assume I'll be going up to Indianapolis for the funeral soon. Whatever.
So I get back yesterday to discover my bank account severely overdrawn (thanks in part to ridiculously high overdraft fees). Long story short, through an utterly asinine accounting error which was entirely my fault, I mistakenly believed I had roughly $475 more than I actually do. See, actually, I have $0. But now I owe over $400 on my credit card from the cash advances I had to take out to fix the checking account problem. My bank charged me a total of almost $130 in fees.
While all of this has been supremely, hilariously, wonderfully stressful -- I really have let myself get quite stressed out about it -- really it's not so bad. I will just be flat broke until I get some invoices paid. If everything goes as it should and my previous invoice isn't paid, by the end of next week I'll have somewhere between $1300 and $1900 (wide range, I know) in outstanding accounts receivable. I got some new freelance stuff, which I'm pretty happy about.
The bad thing about being unexpectedly broke is that I was planning on visiting New Orleans towards the end of the month -- Nick is coming into town and the couple people down there I talk to have been nagging me to come visit for months (but I've been too busy and too poor to go). Of course, I was planning on going because of all that extra money I thought I had. Well, I don't have it. If by some miracle those invoices end up big and are paid by that last week of March, then I might still be able to come. I am not really holding my breath though. But we'll see. It will be a last-minute decision.
Other than all that shit, things have been pretty good.
Ha.