My day, and some news
Nov. 21st, 2024 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silver_chipmunkGot up around 11:30 and ate breakfast and coffee and showered and dressed. I called Middle Brother's group home and talked to them about his trip to me Thanksgiving.
Then I Ubered over to see Oldest Brother. He is still in ICU, and on the ventilator, but the doctor tells me he's doing better. They have lowered his dose of pressors and his blood pressure is maintaining on the lower dose. And they lowered the ventilator and his oxygen levels are maintaining on that. Tomorrow they are going to try turning it off for an hour to see if he can handle that. His infection level is lower too, so all-in-all he is doing better. I texted with the Kid about everything.
After I stayed about an hour and a half, I took the bus to Flushing and from there went tomashfanficchick's. I decided I would go to Starbucks and get something there before I went to zer place, and texted to ask zer if ze wanted anything. Ze called me back and asked me to meet zer at Starbucks, and the reason why is the news I have to tell now that I haven't before.
Astute readers of this journal may have noticed that I have been Ubering and mass transiting rather than getting rides with zer and zer mother, and have not mentioned zer mother at all since August. That's because zer mother is in a nursing facility rehab, after the discovery of a large mass in her abdomen, and a bout of sepsis when they were in Ohio in August. She was hospitalized for sepsis in Ohio, RK flew out (the same weekend I was up in Rochester with Lynn and Chris), and drove them back. Since then there have been multiple tests, and consultations. The outlook is not good, the best option is surgical removal but her current condition makes surgery risky and contraindicated.
I have been glossing over all of this, and the times when I've gone withmashfanficchick to see her in the rehab (Halloween for instance) in deference to her wishes no one be told except for a small few. However, she has given permission to tell people. So it's easier to come clean rather than continue to gloss over stuff.
So, getting back to tonight, I metmashfanficchick at Starbucks and we picked up some medicine for zer mother at the drugstore. Then we took the bus to Shake Shack where we picked up food for zer mother, and ate ourselves, and then took the bus over to the rehab. We dropped off the food and the medicine, and Ubered back to zer place.
We got there just in time to settle in and watch 911. It was a fun episode. At 8:30 I called Middle Brother, and told him about calling his group home, and also about oldest Brother being sick and we might or might not be ble to see him on Thanksgiving.
After 911 I Ubered home, there was some difficulty in getting the Uber but just when I was going to cancel and start over, he got moving and got here. So I came home and got the things that were delivered today, a book from Thriftbooks and my turtle food from Petco.
Then I Skyped the FWiB, which was nice.
And now I'm doing this.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. Permission to tell all.
3. Good TV.
4. Yummy black truffle burgers at Shake Shack.
5. Oldest Brother is doing better.
6. The Kid.
Then I Ubered over to see Oldest Brother. He is still in ICU, and on the ventilator, but the doctor tells me he's doing better. They have lowered his dose of pressors and his blood pressure is maintaining on the lower dose. And they lowered the ventilator and his oxygen levels are maintaining on that. Tomorrow they are going to try turning it off for an hour to see if he can handle that. His infection level is lower too, so all-in-all he is doing better. I texted with the Kid about everything.
After I stayed about an hour and a half, I took the bus to Flushing and from there went to
mashfanficchick's. I decided I would go to Starbucks and get something there before I went to zer place, and texted to ask zer if ze wanted anything. Ze called me back and asked me to meet zer at Starbucks, and the reason why is the news I have to tell now that I haven't before.Astute readers of this journal may have noticed that I have been Ubering and mass transiting rather than getting rides with zer and zer mother, and have not mentioned zer mother at all since August. That's because zer mother is in a nursing facility rehab, after the discovery of a large mass in her abdomen, and a bout of sepsis when they were in Ohio in August. She was hospitalized for sepsis in Ohio, RK flew out (the same weekend I was up in Rochester with Lynn and Chris), and drove them back. Since then there have been multiple tests, and consultations. The outlook is not good, the best option is surgical removal but her current condition makes surgery risky and contraindicated.
I have been glossing over all of this, and the times when I've gone with
mashfanficchick to see her in the rehab (Halloween for instance) in deference to her wishes no one be told except for a small few. However, she has given permission to tell people. So it's easier to come clean rather than continue to gloss over stuff.So, getting back to tonight, I met
mashfanficchick at Starbucks and we picked up some medicine for zer mother at the drugstore. Then we took the bus to Shake Shack where we picked up food for zer mother, and ate ourselves, and then took the bus over to the rehab. We dropped off the food and the medicine, and Ubered back to zer place.We got there just in time to settle in and watch 911. It was a fun episode. At 8:30 I called Middle Brother, and told him about calling his group home, and also about oldest Brother being sick and we might or might not be ble to see him on Thanksgiving.
After 911 I Ubered home, there was some difficulty in getting the Uber but just when I was going to cancel and start over, he got moving and got here. So I came home and got the things that were delivered today, a book from Thriftbooks and my turtle food from Petco.
Then I Skyped the FWiB, which was nice.
And now I'm doing this.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. Permission to tell all.
3. Good TV.
4. Yummy black truffle burgers at Shake Shack.
5. Oldest Brother is doing better.
6. The Kid.
