(The team I'm on has no sense of humor about the level of corporate bullshit we are surrounded by. I desperately need to get back on a team with a more appropriate level of snark and eye-rolling

Oh that would be really hard. Yikes. I would be ALL FOR a team watch of corporate bullshit if we were all rolling our eyes at the BS and speculating on the actual info being provided....but not if we're supposed to be SERIOUS about it!

I've been following all the things here and I just want to send support to everyone that needs it. On my end I'm overwhelmed with life, work, and anxiety so I keep finding myself at a loss for something to say here, but I am always thinking of you all and want the best for all of you.

Bev, holy shit, those are too many things.

Thanks for the wishes for my dad. He was doing better, then this morning woke up confused and unable to see for a while. We're trying to convince my dad to go back to the ER to get him on oxygen before his doctor's appointment tomorrow, but I'm not sure we're going to succeed.

I'm also talking my sister through a bit of a separate crisis. And I'm On Call. And work is being both insane and stupid.

Anyway. Deep breaths. I can get through this, but I'm just saying that I would prefer not to.

Bev, that is a lot of complicated shit! I hope your husband gets home easily and has a really uneventful recovery!

Thanks for the wishes for my dad. He was doing better, then this morning woke up confused and unable to see for a while. We're trying to convince my dad to go back to the ER to get him on oxygen before his doctor's appointment tomorrow, but I'm not sure we're going to succeed.

Dad of Shrift: sir, you couldn't see out your eyeballs this morning! Get the oxygen and spare your family that amount of stress!

I can get through this, but I'm just saying that I would prefer not to.

I feel that. We need to get a referral to a psychiatrist for my dad (or take him to the psych ER), because he's still having the hallucinations AND he believes that aliens* have revealed secrets only to him because he's the only one worthy (which he only told my brother, not me — I don't know to ask about his delusions if he's never mentioned them before, and he's never mentioned being Earth's contact point for the aliens).

Also, my 65-year-old stepdad is worried that my 77-year-old mom is having some cognitive/memory issues because she takes a benzo every night to sleep. And that probably is a contributing factor, but also, she's 77 years old. There's just going to be some cognitive/memory issues as a part of age.

*(If the aliens talking to my dad are the hot aliens from Roswell, and he hasn't told me, there will be a reckoning. That's the kind of thing you tell your daughter about!)

{{{shrift}}}

augh, parents.

Oof, good luck, Teppy. I'm thankful that for all my dad's health problems (and general old man crankiness) he's at least still very with it mentally (which was HILARIOUS when my aunt, my mother's sister, came down to visit a few months ago and we went to see him, and she acted like he was senile, introducing herself as "your wife's sister" as though he would've forgotten...they've only known each other >50 years!)

sir, you couldn't see out your eyeballs this morning!

Pretty much exactly what I said in the group chat!

We need to get a referral to a psychiatrist for my dad

Woof. That's rough. I hope they can figure out what's going on, but I'll also cross my fingers for hot aliens. Why not cover all the bases.

(((shrift)))

Teppy, I know you don't do hugs, so I will wave pompoms from here that you can find someone for your dad.

WHY do we have to get old? Well, I know why, but I wish the wear and tear was only physical, not mental.

Also, very much what Noise said.

I'll also cross my fingers for hot aliens.

This would be the best outcome.