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Better living through modern chemistry

Posted in *sigh*, chaosgirl, dissertation, family, send more chocolate, yarny stuff on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In case you all hadn’t noticed I’ve not posted here in a while.  There still isn’t anything really fun and interesting to post about. For those of you keeping score:
Dad
Hospice brought out a hospital bed last week as he is now too weak to move around much even with the walker. Yesterday he got a [...]

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That was interesting

Posted in family on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

[backstory for new folks]
I had been up at Mom and Dad’s on Monday and Dad had been running a bit of a fever.  It was concerning but the Tylenol brought it down so it was something to keep an eye on but not something that meant I needed to stay up there.
Then Wednesday around lunch [...]

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I’m not dead yet

Posted in dissertation, family, recipes on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I know it’s been pretty quiet around here lately.  Mom fractured her back a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been back and forth there some.  Dad’s going downhill pretty fast now and with Mom not able to do much they need more regular help.
Also, everything on hook or needles is a gift and therefore [...]

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where to begin?

Posted in family on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m home feeling lousy with the cold ChaosGirl so kindly shared with me so maybe I should catch up here a bit.
We had a nice Thanksgiving at my folks. Dad is still hanging in there but it’s not looking good.  I don’t know if he’ll see 2010.  He’s nothing but skin and bones at this [...]

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Just to wrap up loose ends

Posted in dissertation, family on March 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I realized I hadn’t said anything about Dad lately.  He was finally released from the hospital late last week and moved to a nursing home up by where my folks live.  Between the two hospitals he was in for 30 days. He’s weak but doing physical therapy and getting some strength back.  He will probably [...]

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A round-up of not much

Posted in family, school stuff, yarny stuff on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

YARN:
I have finished a few things.

A couple of charity hats:
and

and a couple more petal dishcloths:

and another cloth that I ran out of yarn on and so it now has a blue border and is a ChaosGirl washcloth.

(I really like this pattern. It’s as easy as plain garter stitch but slightly more interesting.)
I also [...]

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Popular?

Posted in family on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Apparently Dad has a popular disease: Patrick Swayze

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A brief update

Posted in family, send more chocolate on March 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »

The short version is Dad has pancreatic cancer with a secondary gall bladder infection that he’s been fighting for almost two weeks now. They have moved him from Hometown Hospital to City Hospital with Cancer Center literally minutes from me so that is good for me but bad for Mom and Sis who are [...]

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