On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:21:15 -0500, Sky >
wrote:

>Aingon Atelia wrote:
>>
>(snip)
>> This has been a tough quarter for me. In mid-December my mother was
>> diagnosed with leukemia. Being too weak for aggressive chemo, she was
>> put on a maintenance treatment. She was already transfusion dependent
>> from other bone marrow issues brought on by chemo for breast cancer 10
>> years ago.
>>
>> On Feb 27th, the night before Blinky's memorial, I was finalizing the
>> eulogy when my sister called, saying that my mother had fallen and hit
>> her head badly enough to be hospitalized. She had a huge subdural
>> hematoma, and she was too frail for them to operate on. She was
>> paralyzed on her right side, and was declining. As there was no
>> prospect for her to not be dependent on machines to keep her alive, with
>> minimal quality of life, my sisters and I had to decide to observe what
>> we knew to be her wishes and stop all of her treatments and let the
>> leukemia take her. We brought her home on March 4th, and she died
>> peacefully in her sleep early on the morning of the 6th. Her funeral
>> was yesterday, her interment today.
>>
>> Helluva couple of months. I've also been made Blinky's daughter's
>> agent, so that the apartment can get cleared out. The coroner unsealed
>> it on the 10th, and I've been given until the 24th to get it emptied.
>> Basically that means finding room for a 1 bedroom apartment inside my
>> small 3 bedroom house, until everything can be gone through.
>>
>> And the hits just keep on coming - When I got home from my mom's
>> interment today, my next door neighbor's house was packed with people.
>> Turns out *he'd* died a couple of days ago from a massive coronary and
>> multiple organ failure.
>>
>> It may not be safe to be around me.
>>
>
>Many condolences for the loss of your mother and neighbor.

And for the loss of your good friend Blinky. You are a champ to be
dealing with all of that, and to be charged with clearing out Blinky's
apartment, too.

>You truly
>have had a rough time of it lately. I just hope this 'trend' doesn't
>keep up.
>
>Sky, from RFC

Ditto from me. I hope that you know by now you can use our collective
shoulders to cry on and lean on.

--
QueBarbara