Daddy died tonight at about 10:30 PM. His breathing started to slow and then it stopped. Me and mom and Medhat were by his bedside. We were able to talk to him, and he seemed to be aware of us but couldn't talk because of weakness and his oxygen mask. Shortly before it happened I took half a xannax (half the people who've been visiting regularly ( Read more... )

After I vistted dad last night I ended up leaving at about midnight and went to Mark's and lost about 12 hours in an attempt to keep my mind off of dad and now I'm tired as fuck but I was able to drive to the hospital on about 4 hours of fitful sleep and here I am visiting everyone.

Dad's friend Magid came to visit a little while ago and freaked ( Read more... )

Sitting in the hospital in dad's room. It's a much nicer room than before, much more room for visitors but every night the perimeter of the room is still filled to the brim with friends. I get very depressed at night but when we're sitting here with him during the day it's a little better. Last night after visiting dad at the hospital I went to see ( Read more... )

every time mom repeats the news it gets worse and worse which is why i'm frustrated - it's been the same news since yesterday but every time i inquire it gets worse and she still claims she's telling me everything. basically, the doctor doesn't think he's going to make it. mom said she doesn't know how much dad knows, and i dont know what time ( Read more... )

Dad's been in the hospital since my last post. In addition to being constipated, he ended up having pneumonia (which, I learned, if not contagious like the flu; the more you know). They kept him around to treat for that, until Thursday when mom texted me with the ominous message that she wanted to get us kids to visit him in the hospital. This, to ( Read more... )

Mom and dad are spending the night in the hospital tonight because dad's massively constipated and I know for a fact that they've done everything they can at home to get him to poop. As much as I begged mom to not tell me everything they did to get him to poop, as much as I told her "no, please, I believe you!" I am still irrevocably imbued with ( Read more... )

Middle East fesitval today, was fun. Took lots of pictures with Alia's camera and that was good. Hopefully the pictures I took with my camera will come out well enough but it will be saturday before walmart gets the pictures in. Mom and dad went out so me and Alia and Alex went to walmart and bought lean cuisines and a frozen bag of those cripsy ( Read more... )

So, the grandparents flew in from Lebanon a few weeks ago and should be staying through February I think. My dad's sister also flew in last week. It's her first trip to America. She's leaving tomorrow cause she has like a damn job and a kid to take care of or some crazy shit like that ( Read more... )

Quite excited - not right this second, but was earlier. This semester is my theory class for Anthro (which is supposed to prepare you for senior seminar) and we have to write three papers through the semester, 8 pages each. I put the first off for longer than I should have. I spent like, 3 days holed up in the student computing center writing it. ( Read more... )

Day before yesterday I cleverly deduced that alia sabotaged my precious christmas stocking makeup. She became mildly perturbed when I informed mother that "there is a possibility that your daughter is a retard," at which point fisticuffs occured and my glasses got mashed in the process. They're functional, but one of the lenses won't pop all the ( Read more... )