My brother has finally arrived. I wish I reached out more often than when I was in crisis, but I've activated the Scoobies more than once over my twelve years on the board and someone always walks through the fire for me and mine. Bottom line is brother is safe for those playing the home game.

Keep a good thought for my grandma(at 85, I'm not sure that the best thought is not an easy passing, with her recurrent heart problems, but you know, above my pay grade)She's a good woman, though in recent years has gotten narrow-minded and not sociable but that is not the person I'm going to remember. In my childhood and beyond, she was a talented cook and curious auto-didact and right now I guess could use stent-ma to keep her arteries open. Thanks!

Hate to pile on the ~ma requests, but if you can spare some for my mom. She's going in for shoulder surgery on the right side tomorrow.

She's 88, has had the heart surgery, hip surgery, and one shoulder socket replaced in the last few years. I think she'll be full on bionic by age 100.

I've already wished her May the Fourth be with her.

Bad news for my mom, the infection has gotten to the bone in her toe. So there will be some degree of amputation. Unknown yet how much will have to go, whether she'll still be able to walk after, and how in hell I'm going to take care of her if she can't walk.

Continued prayers and ~ma, please.

My mother's shoulder surgery has been cancelled due to evidence of afib in her EKG. She decided it was too much of a risk at this time.

Forwarding any spare ~ma to others for now.

Thank you all for the ~ma, it might be helping t /cautiously optimistic

I mean to say, the ~ma is definitely helping my emotional state, let there be no doubt. But her situation might be on the better end of the possible outcomes as well. Please keep it coming.

Please ramp up the ~ma again. My mom was released to rehab on Friday (hence my cautious optimism), but I got a look at her foot Friday, then Saturday, then last night, and it's looking quite a bit worse. I finally got the Dr on the phone (he's only at the rehab 2-3 days a week, so she still hasn't seen him since she's been there) and told him my concerns and he promised to check her out first when he gets there today. I think she may need to be re-admitted to the hospital to get back what she's lost since Friday (which I suppose would be better news than the doctors just deciding she's not getting better and starting to treat with knives rather than drugs).

If I could have some "go smoothly"-ma, I'd appreciate it. I'm interviewing for basically the job I'm doing now, and I'm 97% sure I'll get it, but bureaucracy, yay!

Off to go to doctor appointments with my mom; wish us healing!