usmcsis's Diaryland Diary
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saturday stuff
You will be smothered under a rug. You're a little
anti-social, and may want to start gaining new
social skills by making prank phone calls.
What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?
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so, i was going to leave work early today, around one or so because i was seriously into overtime. for those of you who don't know....
target + overtime = bad thing
anyway, so i ended up leaving at nine-thirty-ish so that i could go to the hospital and sit with my grandma and my dad. he's taking this very hard and he's dealing with it mostly alone.
my mom can't take any more time off of work right now to stay with him because she has missed so much with him and her both being sick. my aunt is working shift work and she's a pretty selfish person anyway, so there's no way she can help. my cousin has her kid's and husband to take care of, though she has been there for daddy quite a bit this week which i really appreciate. but i talked to jermaine this morning and of course, i got really upset and cried, but he was like, go, we'll take care of things here.
so i went.
i bought grandma a pair of cheneille slipper socks first though. they are thick and soft and really warm. she has been complaining that her feet are so cold that the bones hurt and she cannot get warm no matter what so i thought maybe she'd like them. they probably won't do much to warm her up, but she'll know i was thinking of her and wanting to help her feel better.
so i went to the hospital when i left work and daddy was already there, had been there for close to an hour. grandma was sleeping with this huge oxygen mask thing attached to her head. it's kind of scary looking. and it sounds a little like darth vader too. not very pleasant.
anyway, so i read my book and he read the paper and we both just sat there, you know, just being there. around eleven-thirty daddy gave me some money and asked me to run to the china kitchen down the street from house and get us some lunch and said he'd meet me at home. so we're home now for a little while. he's watching some college football and i'm going to take a short nap with my book. then we'll head back.
one of my great aunt's has been unable to come to visit my grandma because her car is broke down and her kids are both too busy to drive her. she lives over in colonial heights so i may go get her later and take her to the hospital for a bit. of course, grandma isn't up to a whole lot of visiting being that she can't talk at all and she's doing nothing but sleeping. but i guess it isn't really visiting that we're all trying to do now is it?
my great uncle pete is on his way here. he lives in north carolina and he's headed up to "be here." i don't think he'd make two trips if you know what i mean, so that kind of breaks my heart a little. but, it will turn out the way it turns out and there is nothing i can do to change that.
toodles
12:30 pm - 13 Nov 2004
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