Hey all.
Had a wild one this week. Last Monday night, my mom had a heart attack while having a night out "gaming" in Dubuque, Iowa. I couldn't get out until Tuesday on the red eye to Chicago, and then had to drive out Wednesday morning.
Thankfully, the episode was minor when compared to what could have happened, and after 3 days, she was allowed to go back home to Illinois. It is now Sunday night, and the kid and I are just getting home from our trip back to the ol' Midwest.
I have had much to ruminate on over the course of the week, and unfortunately for me, I had much on my mind before the news! As I have learned over the years, as I accumulate these big picture life-events, the severity of problems tends to be relative in that no matter how burdened one feels, you need to be ready to take on more. On the flipside, when moments of particularly acute intensity pass, simple moments of peace, or quiet, or uneventfulness can take on a therapeutic value they don't on any ol' day.
What I am (ponderously) trying to say is that the worst of it appears to have passed for now...my doctor sister has been with her throughout the talks with the doctors and the setting up of the med regimen, so I am pretty sure most contingencies are pretty well covered for now. There are lots of big changes that come with this event, and I find myself seriously pondering moving back "home" to Chicago so that I might be of some use to someone other than myself. It would be a ways off yet, and I am not sure it is even possible, but there is much to recommend doing so if it is possible. I dunno.
Anyway, I am now many entries behind here on ye olde weblogge. I also had intended to go to Oklahoma this week to see my doctor sis and her family since they are moving to Japan soon and I won't have the chance to see my awesome nephew (pictured enjoying his first Vienna hot dog with my little hot dog who also is enjoying his first) very often at all once they are gone! I am not sure I can pull it off until I see how far into a hole my time away from work has left me (it would be much easier to move to Illinois if I were unemployed in a job market like this since there wouldn't be anywhere else for me to go!) If I can get caught up, I will keep my date with Northwest Oklahoma. If not, it is catch-up a-go-go. I hope to get some of my queue of backed up weblog entries done in either event, but I am not sure when I can get to them. Gimme a little time and I will surely git to it, but I can't say exactly when.
Hang loose and I'll git bout it bout it.
Posted by rudayday at June 07, 2009 10:09 PM