Grandma died in her sleep yesterday.

The annual lantern lighting ceremony was tonight -- flea (and family) joined us to launch a lantern for Ginger on the lake. Picture are in the FB Buffistas group, or if you're not in that group, this post is a public post so you should be able to see them (along with pictures of my other lantern): [link]

Hospital trying Bipap procedure tonight to get the last of fluid out of lung for my Mom who turns out to have Pulmonary Edema NOT pneumonia. All the ~ma you can spare for success please - and if successful for good results so that she can eat again. Loss of appetite is resulting in starvation diet- she won't each much. Can't stand food with how sick she is. And since getting rid of fluid critical no continuous IV, though she is getting protein injections. So far the limited menu of things she will eat is eggs (about three or four a day) apple sauce, in which she will tolerate protein powder and boost magic cup vanilla ice cream (9 grams protein 38 carbs and about two fat exchanges) twice a day. Growing weaker every day even though she breathes better as fluid level reduced. Kind of critical that this succeeds, becasue she needs to get over the illness so she can recover from the damage done by exhaustion and malnutrition.

BiPap did not happen. No idea why.

Hi friends -- As you know if you read Natter, my local Walk to End Alzheimer's was today, but it is not too late to donate! My page is here: [link] You've all been there with my and my family throughout this whole journey, and I really thank you all.

My daughter attempted suicide, she's not out of danger yet.

She's stable, but we don't know if she'll be okay yet.

She keeps getting better but still has a breathing tube so she can't talk. She seems like she's aware of what's going on, not sure how her motor skills are as they had to tie down her arms to keep her from trying to remove the breathing tube. Earlier her motor skills weren't very good. She was sound asleep when we went home which is good. I'm so tired I can barely keep my eyes open.

Thanks for the support. It's starting to look like she's going to come through ok.

She's still not back to normal with her blood levels and heart, but the doctors say it's only a matter of time as the medicines work their way out of system. There's no indication of permanent damage. She's sleeping away peacefully next to me as I type this.