I'm back home in Los Angeles as of late last night/early this morning. I'm currently booked to fly back to Florida on Friday so that I can give Kristin some more support over the weekend.

Overall we are still roughly at the same place with her Dad. Improvements in some areas, but declines in others. Still not a clear path to next steps. Hopefully some more information tomorrow. He's getting an endoscopy tomorrow because there appears to be a lesion in his esophagus. That is possibly what has been causing the issues getting an NG tube placed. He hasn't eaten in a week, so nutrition is part of what they are trying to solve to see if he's going to bounce back cognitively from all of this.

I'll try to keep updating here. Pix is occasionally reading, but told me to keep all of you updated. She's doing occasional updates over on FB, but she doesn't have a lot of energy for interaction.

We both love you all and are so thankful for the support of this community.

It's good that you can make the trips to support Pix and to let your dear FIL feel your love as well. It is such a roller coaster waiting for the next text and trying to get answers.

It's Monday and I am full of don't wanna.

It's Monday and I am full of don't wanna.

Hard same! Despite (or maybe because) lounging and sleeping for most of the weekend. I feel like I got rested and now I want a day off to get sone things done at home. But nooooooo, work. Poop!

I started my Monday at the dentist, always an awesome start to the week.

3-day weekend coming up, msbelle? January is so weird.

I am not into working today. I am not into being awake today, actually. FIrst week of WFH Monday, and I appreciate that I could drag myself out of bed a little later and, you know, be home, I'm not doing so great with the "work" part

I have dentist at 1p -- dentist buddies, yay? Yeah, not so much.

Five whole days of work ahead, what?

I think I have pleurisy, which sounds so old fashioned but really is just inflamed tissue around the ol' lungs, which, I probably ended up with bronchitis even though I never went to the doc, so... that would track. I finally caved and sent a note to the doc, because it is uncomfortable to the point that I didn't get much sleep last night, and I can't take NSAIDs, and Tylenol is like fake medicine to me. She's probably going to make me go in. Fair enough.

I think I have pleurisy

Pleurisy sucks, man. If you can't take NSAIDs, I see steroids in your future.

Ah, steroids. That makes sense. Blergh.

Thanks for the updates, ND. Holding you both close in my heart.

Pleurisy, boo, JenP. I hope they find something that helps and quickly.

I have 3-day weekends now, but that’s because we are working 4 10-hr days. This weekend I was pretty much out of commission due to pain and fatigue for Friday and Saturday. I did manage to get some stuff done yesterday, but I’m not keeping up with life, let alone catching up on all the stuff I am behind on.

And really, I need to probably find more hours somewhere to bring more money in, but I don’t know how that’s going to work if I spend two days recovering. Last week wasn’t even a full week because of NYD.

Twas ever thus. May it not always be so.

Pleurisy sucks.

I was very happy at 730am when I begrudgingly went to log into work and found out the meeting I was logging in for was canceled. Sadly I still had meetings from 8am until now and do not want to do any more work.