On the whole probably not a bad week. I've started trying to both exercise and make music a little more regularly. Having considerably more consistency with the exercise than the music, which is... strange?
I had an appointment Friday with Dr. Chopra, who had been our doctor ( Read more... )

Karen Colleen Savitzky, better known as Mama Colleen, Grandma Colleen, Mama Con, The FlowerCat, and Colleen Elizabeth de Cassis, passed away at 4:30 am this morning. She never regained consciousness after an epic surgery that we both knew going in was risky as hell. (See Episode 9 for the ( Read more... )

( Content warning: serious medical issues. tl;dr: Colleen is back in the hospital. It's serious. She's currently recovering from major surgery. )

Colleen is back on Whidbey Island, as of late Monday afternoon, in the nursing home/rehab center formerly known as Careage, and now called Regency Coupeville. (Regency Pacific Management runs some 40 facilities in Washington, Oregon ( Read more... )

You'll notice the cut tag is back this time; Colleen is back in a hospital (UW, this time). She's being well taken care of (finally) (hopefully), but sheesh!
Episode 6 was ( Read more... )

Colleen is still in rehab. Prestige has gone considerably downhill since ( Read more... )

You may note that there is no cut tag in this one. Colleen transfered from the to Prestige Post-Acute and Rehabilitation Center in Edmonds on Tuesday. She traveled by "cabulance" -- wheelchair van -- and managed the bed-to wheelchair and wheelchair-to-bed transfers under her own power.
She did a little walking yesterday and more ( Read more... )

It's been a crazy few days, complicated by some incomplete messaging ( Read more... )

Yesterday I drove down to Seattle to stay at N's while visiting Colleen in the hospital (Swedish First Hill). It's good to be back with my chosen family for the first time in over a year, thouogh I would have preferred a different excuse.
The drive from N's to the hospital yesterday was something of a disaster ( Read more... )

( Content warning: serious medical issues. tl;dr: Colleen is still in the hospital. )