chelseagirl

is this thing on?

So, I have something that's too un-public, at the moment, for Facebook (especially since I have relatives and friends of my dad's on my flist there), and LJ is down, so lucky DW . . .

My dad had another mini-stroke and he's in the hospital. My mom said he's alert and fine but his speech is garbled. I don't know if that's something that will clear up or if it's going to be permanent; I don't know how much he's going to recover. He's 80, after all.

And my mother announced she would NOT be keeping her cell phone on (she doesn't know how to recharge it; she always handed it to my dad to do that) and she would phone me after 9 tonight. So I am going to be going a bit crazy today.

Plus at lunch I have to take a break from freelancing and go up and do some banking errands for my aunt (who's essentially a shut-in right now; her aides take her to doctor's appointments and physical therapy, but she has resisted all suggestions that we might take her to the bank or the optician or out to lunch thus far, mostly I think because she doesn't want to appear in public in a wheelchair and she's not confident walking outside her apartment or PT) . . .

My aunt is the kind of person who reads WebMD for fun. She is going to want to know EVERYTHING and she is going to grill me again and again. And again. And, um, it's not like she's got lots else going on right now, so she is going to latch on *hard* to this. Which is totally understandable but I have very few answers, so it's going to be stressful.

I'm going up to visit my folks in two weeks, which is what was planned, but I think it will also work out well because Dad should be more up for company then than he might have been sooner. He should be home and we should have a sense of how recovered he's going to get, by then.

Damn. I want my parents to be eternal.

Thanks, batdina!

Now to figure out who's over here. But not this morning.