Oh Sheryl, I am so sorry. I hope he doesn't get symptoms.

Oh no covid!

But yay Jen and future DH!

DP and I are going to make him a DH!

❤❤ Congrats ❤❤

Laura,

His nose has been congested and he's been coughing. sigh...more time I have to take off work.

I have some good news to share... DP and I are going to make him a DH! "Sneaking" off to get married in the next month or so, then throwing a shindig probablybin the Fall. Not actually sneaking off, obvi. But, you know, "just us" ing it for the official part. Yay!

Hooray!!!!!!!

My Dad's mental state is MUCH better today, thank god. Since I can read his chart online through MyChart, I saw a progress note last night noting that the restraints were removed, and I thought, well, that sounds promising. This morning there was a progress note that said "Patient very apologetic about actions and behavior the last couple days. Patient states he remembers bits and pieces of the events that played out but he does not understand why he got so angry because he generally is not an angry person."

So I called him, and he sounded back to normal (which does still include a slight level of craziness, because he does still talk about the hallucinations as though they're real -- he just wasn't seeing them in the hospital room while we were on the phone) and even asked me to bring him a newspaper.

I visited him, and he said that, like the note above says, he remembers bits and pieces, but more or less "lost" about 3 days. Not sure what caused the improvement -- I'm guessing there was/is an infection causing the encephalopathy, but the intravenous antibiotic finally started working and is getting the infection under control.

I honestly expect he'll be in the hospital (or moved to a rehab facility) for at least another week. Because he has some GI source of bleeding they have to find and treat (his RCB count and hemoglobin are crazy low, so he's very anemic), and they're going to want to ensure that the infection stays gone, and then he also has a leg injury from February that's going to need PT before he can safely go home. He has a LOT going on.

So yeah, we're leaving for vacation tomorrow morning as planned. I am so damn tired, I might sleep the entire week.

Happy belated birthday Karl.

Congrats JenP and soon to be DH.

I'm staying at Mom's through Monday so I can spend Mother's day with her . Her eye surgery went really well and she's healing up.

There was a pop up vintage/handmade market in town so I went. Mom drove me. I bought some things and walked around downtown some. But got really fuzzy headed and brain foggy from bending over to look at things , walking and talking to people. Not all at once...just cumulative.

This led to a long nap.

The coordinator of the pop up market sells a lot of ephemera and kits for junk journaling mostly at her booths at a shop elsewhere. But we got to talking and I showed her some stuff I have done and she really liked it and was talking about pricing for things like that..mostly the little embellishments I've made. Which kind of floored me. And she asked if I had Instagram.

I've gotten compliments on my style or things I've done but this hit differently.

Actually this past week and weekend has been full of some self discovery. One thing I've been doing is thinking about the computer/craft room and how I really need to organize my stuff . I had been thinking in terms of organizing in a somewhat temporary way or that will work with what I have and I finally admitted to myself I want to create a crafting space that I want...not just try to piecemeal together things because that will be enough.

I refueled my car at a new gas station on my way home this afternoon. So far, I'm getting my best mpg ever! [link]

DP and I are going to make him a DH! "Sneaking" off to get married in the next month or so,

Fantastic good news! I'm so happy for you both.

Also, excellent news about your dad, Tep. Let's hear it for antibiotics.

I'm glad your dad is doing better Teppy .

Enjoy your vacation

Glad to hear of your dad’s improvement, Tep!