Some of this is from Saturday. Something was wrong with LJ so I couldn't post it.I'm back in Nashville. My friend and housemate DK came with me this time, thinking we were just coming for a weekend visit. We arrived Friday late afternoon, rented a car, checked into a motel, got some dinner, and then went over to the hospital. (We didn't go straight ( Read more... )

It's a good thing I bought the suit.

I arrived in Nashville Friday a week ago, when Mom was moved to the Alive Hospice Ward at St. Thomas Hospital. It's very comfortable there. She has a large private room with wooden floors, attractive wingback visitor chairs, artwork from home, and a view of the tree-covered hills to the northwest. The staff ( Read more... )

Mom is back in the hospital, with fluid accumulating in her chest and an irregular and very rapid heartbeat. They called an ambulance this morning when her heart raced to 180 beats a minute and she couldn't get her breath. At the hospital they got her heart stabilized but the medicine caused her blood pressure to drop very low. They drained the ( Read more... )

New post up at Somewhere in the Middle: Just When You Think It's All Going to be Okay... about the situation with my mom. It says some of what I already said here, and some new. It's a little more introspective, a little less raw.

I'd wanted to write about my gender experiences in Nashville, but somehow I found myself writing this instead.

My mom is really, really sick. I'm in Nashville, she's in the hospital, and her cancer is slowly (please let it be slowly) killing her ( Read more... )

Mom got to go home from the hospital today. She's feeling much better, especially since for the first time in several weeks she's not short of breath. She'll keep the chest tube in for as long as it's needed to keep her breathing better. The docs have all said she's doing really, really well, and that there really was no sign of new tumor growth in ( Read more... )

The news about Mom couldn't possibly be better ( Read more... )

My mom got her test results back and they are AWESOME! There is NO SIGN OF THE CANCER ( Read more... )

Edit: There seems to be something wrong with this post that makes it not appear in friends lists or RSS, so I'm trying putting a little plain text above the cut, to see if that makes it show up.

( What Nezu's been up to in Nashville, including: eating amazing meals, astonishing children, fearing giant insects, and other wonders. )

I'm off to Nashville for a week. Gonna see my mom and her very short chemo hair, gonna see my stepdad and his very long bypass scar. And it is going to be awesome and glorious and fun. I'll try to be online, but don't know when yet. Need to see what's what when I get there.

I'll be home in a week.