This will be the OMFG of today because most of this day sucked ( Read more... )

A second year in a row. Last year it was eaten up by fears of cancer. This year...ditto. So my uncle decided (after saying for months he wouldn't) is having surgery for the tumor at 7 AM tomorrow. At best even if the surgery is a success it buys 6 months ( Read more... )

She likes to cook for an army. This is the third time she has cooked more than enough food for all of us at a potluck, literally three roasters filled to the tops of food plus an entire crockpot filled with mac and cheese. Made my jello brains and hummus (not together) look sad. But for me the real star was another coworkers apple slaw thing that I ( Read more... )

Since it's not a happy thing. Even though my uncle's MRI was last week he's not being seen until a full month afterward. However today he is falling and unable to use his left side of his body. I don't think we need the MRI to know the glioblastoma is back ( Read more... )

The Very Good News - My young cousin (i.e. the 30 something generation) had her first baby today. The little girl and Mom are doing fine ( Read more... )

I'm not even awake 10 minutes before Dad waylays me 'Your uncle has the MRI in his portal and he wants you to look at it but I've looked and it looks bad. He wants you to call him. Well fuck. Yeah so there are signs the brain cancer is coming back even while he's doing the chemo. As you can imagine this is a bad sign. I try to explain it without ( Read more... )

( Did you know Taps had lyrics. They're under here )

That for my parents and at least myself, there isn't going to be viewings and big church services. My religious cousin was utterly scandalized by this. Too bad, this was all too much. The Catholic church was insanely hot. I did the reading. Made it through by never looking up from the book because if I could do that I could divorce myself from the ( Read more... )

as expected. We made it through the viewing without too much family drama ( Read more... )

Mom and I went to my aunt's place to help with the funeral arrangements. I ended up taking over (by request) the selection of hymns and readings. I knew two. I have never seen these hymns. Weird. It also looks like I'll have to give one of the readings ( Read more... )