Raq, I was too out of it to mention it earlier, but I saw your post and my vibeage for you has been steady. David said it best:
Raq! Your poor cooter! I order it to get better immediately and be as benign as a goofy maiden aunt in a Jane Austen novel.
The same goes for you, Vortex! Benignity at it's finest.
Happy Birthday to Katie! whether today or tomorrow.
P-C, you've gotten excellent advice here. I agree with the wise inhabitants of Bitches.
Beej, your fela is a very nice fela, indeed. Didja get the tarot info I left for you the other day, BTW? As I'm distracting myself by playing online a little bit.
Naps are wonderful things. We've decided that since we're ten minutes from the hospital, and since there's nothing we can actually DO there, aside from going in periodically and speaking to him, hoping a familiar voice will anchor him and bring him back to consciousness, that camping out in the waiting room is pointless. We'll go over this evening, maybe one of us will stay overnight. I'm planning on spending my hospital time when he's conscious and out of ICU and may actually need someone there.
We called, and his day nurse is as awesome as his night nurse was. She says she's still encouraging him to breathe on his own. His vitals are pretty stable, except for the not-self-breathing part, and she "thinks" he's trying to respond to commands. This is an experienced ICU nurse, and she wouldn't say that unless there was some basis for it, so we (maybe choose to) believe her.
Thank you all so much for the support. It means everything.
I just can't get Beverly and family out of my thoughts. I do hope she is able to get some rest and that the doctors are making progress. On edge waiting for an update. I don't want to call her because I hope she is resting.
This.
{{P-C}} Lots of good advice. I'm glad you have this place to vent.
And this.
Laura speaks for me today.
Beverly, I've been thinking about you, all day. I'm glad you checked in. I hope the news gets better and better.
Nicole!! Waves! Hey, insent.
P-C - you are not a mind reader. You will never be a mind reader. I wish there were some easy way around that, but there isn't. Just hang in there.
Oh, and $25 for a four year old? Yow.
So that does seem like a hell of a lot? I'm not just cheap?
$25 giftcard to like Toys R Us or the like wouldn't seem so bad. You'd spend that on a toy.
But cash, well, cash for 4 year olds rubs me the wrong way, anyhow.
Of course Beverly checks in as I'm typing. Of course.
Thinking about you, hon, and wishing the distance between us would just disappear so I could give you the longest hug known to man. Or woman.
::waves to Suz and scurries off to check various email accounts::
Yeah, somehow a $25 Toys R Us card equals toys, but $25 cash is more than a kid needs. Why that is different...not sure.
And by this I'm not saying you should have stopped and converted it to a gift card before going to your Aunt's cause then there would be the inevitable discussion of why you chose gift card A over gift card B and a whole new headache....
But cash, well, cash for 4 year olds rubs me the wrong way, anyhow.
Yeah, it felt icky to me too, but it was pretty much my only option at that point. It's really for the mother to buy the kid something nice, anyway. But giving cash is very Indian. Especially if it's an envelope! Also, you don't give multiples of ten; you always tack on an extra dollar for good luck. Because zeroes are evil.
