Using your post, Teresa, because it gives me what I awant to bring up...
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Originally Posted by Disneyphile
Kansas is a weird place. When Ken and I drove through there almost 4 years ago, we marveled at the amount of roadside porn shops, adjacent to convenience stores and rest stops, out in the middle of nowhere. I really tried to not use the restrooms through that stretch.  |
It's been years since I've gone cross country like that, so I've forgotten. I did have a good laugh in some area of San Bernardino that it seemed like porn shops were on as many street corners as gas stations....
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Try asking the doc for Tessalon Pearls if the coughing gets out of control. Those things totally stop the coughing, better than any of the syrups.
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Never heard of those.... I'll have to check that out.
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So, I'm a bit more calm now. Ken distracted me with some chess and fresh chocolate chip cookies. My mom's resting up at the hospital overnight, and they'll run some final tests in the morning. She's asked that I continue with the party plans, in hope that she'll make it. I'm wondering if she's just telling me that, because she doesn't want me to be upset.  She's always said that it's the parents' job to worry, and not the other way around. Yeah, ok. Here's hoping it's just scar tissue that can be easily removed.
I don't handle stuff like this very well, probably because I never had a close friend or family member get critically ill or die up until 6 years ago. So, I never had to learn to cope with it. (Three of my grandparents were gone before I was born.) If I had learned the process as a kid, it'd probably be a bit easier now. Who knows.
Ok, now I'm babbling.
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You're not babbling, DP. It makes sense understanding that it's only been a recent experience for you. It takes a long time to learn, and fortunately/unfortunately, I've had a lot of experience with it. Who knows if it makes anything any easier. Maybe your mom wants you to go on with the party, because if it's going on still, it's something to motivate her. My grandma was in the hospital a couple of years ago, and it was going to be my cousin's 16th birthday party. The two of them are very, very close, perhaps closer than she is with her own mother, and this was all on the heels of very recently losing our grandfather on that side, so my cousin was erring toward just spending time with grandma and, you know, being distressed. Grandma insisted that the party should go on, and she explained that she wanted something to look forward to.
I don't know if that's your mom's case, but it might be.
In the meanwhile, I'll keep sending healing thoughts her way, and calming thoughts to you.