Almost all I want to say right now is that there's a fairly major medical-related blog coming -- with 'fairly major' meant in the sense that there's just a lot to cover. This has been one of those cases where I couldn't stop and sum up because once again, life doesn't operate with chapters. Every time I felt there was a moment available for pausing and updating, something else would happen...
But I also don't want people to panic. So I will say that none of it is high-risk for my parent. Just that she's been in the hospital since Friday -- we started with a UTI -- and things just keep happening. There's still a chance that she'll be discharged tomorrow. But I've been going back and forth to the hospital, or I've wound up staying for hours. Trying to scavenge writing time since Friday, desperately trying to center myself enough to write anything at all. Today, I managed to create this chapter. Morning, night, and three hours of absolute chaos in between.
Just under 9k. And I have to push like this one more time before September ends, when she could be discharged tomorrow and that means staying in the hospital from the moment visiting hours start until someone tells me, one way or another. If she has to stay, then I'll wind up doing it all again on the 30th.
I was thinking about starting something. For the last post of the month.
I hope I have enough left to push with.