( Venting... )

...to everyone who expressed their sympathies and condolences in my last post and by direct email.  Believe me, I read every one and I passed them along to my family-- they were amazed to know how many people out across the net cared enough to say so.  It really does mean something to us, and we appreciate it.

We spent quite a lot of time at the ( Read more... )

Yesterday-- I'm glad my mom woke up.  I'm glad it was brief, since it must have hurt.  Since then she's been weakening and has been put back on the full life-support, which causes some additional problems; the docs have been talking 'trachiotomy' and suggesting that it's time we let her go.

I'll be flying out on Friday; I have my tickets already, ( Read more... )

Guys?  She woke up.  Just for a few seconds, while the doc was changing her ventilator out for some other sort of system-- her pneumonia's very bad, and they needed to drain her lungs more-- she grimaced, opened her eyes and looked at the doctor. My little sister Denise was standing next to him and she said something, she doesn't remember what, and ( Read more... )

 Just an update, very quickly.  It's been a week and a day and my mom hasn't woken up yet.  If things haven't changed by Wednesday afternoon, I will be flying out on Friday to be with my family.  We haven't found out much since I last wrote-- the only really big change was that we learned she'd had a severe stroke following her surgery, probably ( Read more... )

Okay, I figured I should go ahead and write this up; it's not fun, but... one of the reasons I have a blog is to keep track of what happens in my life, the good stuff and the bad, and this fits.  If I've let things slide lately-- if there are emails I should've answered and people I haven't talked with-- my apologies; things have been kind of rough ( Read more... )

I am deep in the throes of Buyer's Apprehension (okay, read that as 'terror') at the moment, along with a heady admixture of Want!It!RIGHT!NOW!ness.  I got my income-tax refund in this morning and did what I've been planning on for several weeks now-- bought me a laptop.

( It's Shiny! )

( So: today was my mom's 83rd birthday... )

Well.  To quote a certain person, what a long strange trip it's been...

I only have a little while to write this since I & my sister and brother-in-law are going out to dinner, but I thought I'd post some photos from the New Orleans part of the vacation while I had a minute.  Here we go:

The 'Bloody Mary' Tour Of The Undead

The Aquarium of The ( Read more... )

Hiya! Just a very quick summary of what's going on, but first and formost a very large Happy Birthday to two very good friends as of 8/10 & 8/12:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, sorchafyre AND nightengale

I have presents for you both, but I can't send 'em until I get back from vacation.

And speaking of which... I headed out last Friday to the lovely city of New Orleans; it was ( Read more... )