Bad News good News

Bad news--dad is in the hospital and doing very poorly. Didn't think he'd make the night but he was still stubbornly holding on. also peter the cat is very upset and somehow has fleas and i did manage to get some flea stuff but i think he's reacting badly to it and to the upset--after all it ts traumatic if 6 burly guys with loud radios show up in your house to take your grampy away and then your aunty lin is gone most of the time. i'd be po'd too and crying all the time. I feel so bad because I want to be with him but I need to be with dad. 16 years of life with grampy is hard to give up isn't it. I WAS hoping to take him to the vet tomorrow but don't think that's going to happen. Peter will have to put up with this and i hope he forgives me someday.

The good news which sort of makes me happy is that the red sox won the series. And the patriots demolished the redskins (sounds like a replay of the French and Indian war doesn't it?). I was in the hospital with dad when the sox won--was watching the game at midnight or whenever it happened and yes the nurses allowed the patients to stay up if they so felt the need. Nice nurses. Can't say enough about Memorial Hospital's Hodgson 5 staff. Amazing amazing people. Love them. They're putting up with me and my "I don't want to be a bother but if you don't get dad a bedpan you'll have a BIG MESS to clean up" routine.

ANyway, for the one or two out there who actually read this thing, I will keep you posted once I actually know something more. The prognosis is pathetically bad--I actually thought I would be an orphan today but somehow that didn't happen--I love my dad, want him to be around til his hundredth birthday but don't think that's going to happen. I miss him already because he's kind of been gone to me for a little bit. He has acute liver failure by the way from his hard drinking years ago (damn those 16oz knickerbocker beers) aggravated by his sneaking wine during the day in recent years when he thought I wasn't looking. But I'm on to you now, dad, only it's a little too late for me to do much about it. Ah hell, guess it's time to wrap this thing up.

Sadly,
lin