There is not good news about my aunt. She is back in the hospital. There is some kind of infection and even though she isn't on a feeding tube she isn't eating much or responding. Hospice has been contacted and i think she is going to be moved to an in patient hospice facility tomorrow. The hospice contact person urged mom and my uncle to come as soon as possible instead of waiting until August. However Mom and my uncle have decided they are going to wait. My aunt isn't aware of what is going on and there will be a lot of work after she passes and Mom very frankly said if it were her other sister or her brother she'd be there ASAP but Aunt W just....she destroyed any relationship with mom

Well, what the hell. some woo has helped me out, but I do get impatient and don't stick with it.

The whole thing is heavily laced with woo,

Woo has its moments, and really generally not harmful, so I am all about the woo.

I'm sorry that the situation with your aunt has turned worse, askye.

Friday we were taking my MIL out to dinner for her birthday prior to leaving for NY on Saturday morning. It didn't go well. We were seated and ordered our drinks and an appetizer, and proceeded to converse about this that and the other. In the middle of talking Pam's head started to loll and she was trembling some and drooling. I called her name several times then jumped up to hold on to her shoulders in case she fell. It took about 30 seconds before I could get her to respond. The restaurant was awesome and refused to charge us for our drinks or anything. She drank a glass of water and then DH helped her to the car. We refused an ambulance. Anyway, we gave her no option and took her to the ER. They did a zillion tests until 1AM, then released her. She had elevated white blood cells from some infection, and was likely dehydrated. They gave her fluids and antibiotics and sent her on her way. All the scans and stuff were okay. We left the hospital around 8 or so when my SIL relieved us so we could pack and prepare for early morning departure. Grateful for local siblings that make that an option. Anyway, scary, but I think okay. Hard to believe an infection and dehydration could do that, but maybe? From FIL being retired career military and her being 79 she has awesome insurance so they tested everything.

How frightening! I'm glad your MIL is all right and it was something easily addressed.

I have a book-related sad--picked up a copy of Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride at the WeHo Friends of the Library bookstore, and it's already totally engrossing but I'm pretty sure there's no way I'm going to be able to read it. The print is tiny and the pages are yellowing and I'm just... nope. May be time for big print and e-readers.

Hard to believe an infection and dehydration could do that, but maybe?

JZ has passed out from dehydration within the last six months. Also her mom did it once, and her mom's friend at a dinner we were at.

It happens in a hurry.

Hard to believe an infection and dehydration could do that, but maybe?

It happens in a hurry.

Dehydration and electrolyte loss can happen quickly, I agree.

The print is tiny and the pages are yellowing and I'm just... nope. May be time for big print and e-readers.

I personally settled on e-readers. I haven't looked back.

That is one more reason e-readers are awesome. Alternately you could try magnifying glasses of some kind?

Laura that is very scary! My grandmother did something like that one year at thanksgiving dinner, but by the time the EMTs showed up she was fine. Hope she stays fine!

I am packed! Well, my suitcase is packed. My “personal item” is a pile of stuff in a corner but I think it contains all the stuff, so…. I re-bleached and re-dyed my hair today and it turned out a lot more hot pink than planned (usually I go for sort of an orchid color? A slightly blue pink?). Trying to decide if I just wash it in the morning and figure it’ll fade, or if I try to put a tiny bit of purple dye on it (diluted with a lot of conditioner). I don’t leave until 3pm but have meetings all day until then, for work. Including one at like 130pm that is actually very important. Ugh.

I'd vote for "call it a Barbie tie-in and leave it be" but my baseline level of exhaustion at this point is high, and the list of things I can't be assed to do is long.

I personally settled on e-readers. I haven't looked back.

Same. I resisted, but it makes reading in bed so easy.

It happens in a hurry.

Good to have the reassurance, because dehydration was the best option for causation.

Have a blast, meara. Hot pink hair sounds good to me. I think we need pictures.

I am a responsible person! Woot! At the beginning of the month I was with one sister as she had her colonoscopy and surgery. And today I am hanging in the waiting room as my other sister has her colonoscopy. On the paperwork for both I am the responsible person! The sister I am with today has a bowel prolapse which will be dealt with surgically on the 1st, unless we end up in the ER sooner. This is one of a battery of tests we need before the surgery.

Bodies people, not so well designed in many ways.

Dehydration can happen really fast especially with how hot amd humid it has been and in combination with an infection. I know about 15 years ago my Aunt J got really dehydrated (not infection related) and passed out and had to go to the ER.

I'm trying to be a lot better about drinking water because I know I need but I also know that as people get older they are less likely to drink water and other fluids and I don't want that.

It's not just drinking water, eating water rich foods also helps keep you hydrated so another reason to eat your fruits and vegetables.

JZ there are full page size magnifiers and some are lighted if you want to try that before going eReader. In the donations at Recraft there was a magnifier for single lines...I guess for reading patterns . I don't know if that would be better.

I've taken to opening my camera app and zooming in to read things. That wouldn't work for reading a book but it's worked when I've been trying to read the side of a bottle.

I am really glad I'm here for Mom. The hospital can't find the Power of Attorney or the DNR for my aunt. The nurse or case manager is going to get the doctor to do a DNR today. They need the POA sent and mom was going to fax it. The nurse said she could email it but mom said she didn't know how. So I took care of getting it scanned and made sure mom got it emailed.

Mom also had to call the social worker about my cousin's son...there is a bunch of stuff going on there. And then the lawyer because it still isn't clear who is going to have guardianship of him when Aunt W passes.