Tuesday, June 28, 2005

The sky is clearing

Everyone is out of the hospital and doing well.

Monday, June 20, 2005

Justin is doing much better

Justin is doing much better, he's talking and moving around. Turns out he also had a bad staph infection.

Saturday, June 18, 2005

Things just got really bad with Justin

He came out of surgery great last night. He was awake and talking and his pain was under control. They didn't move him into ICU because he was doing so well. He was put in a regular room. I just found out that last night, his drainage pump broke and the nurses didn't know how to fix it so they left it. Meanwhile, the CSF was backing up into his head and getting infected. My sister called the on call surgeon and he said Justin could wait until tomorrow. Fucking lazy doctors. He's now completely incoherent and unable to move. They just took him in for an emergency MRI. Needless to say, he's now were he should have been in the first place, the ICU. Unfortunately, his psychotic Biological mother is back. She seems to be keeping herself under control though. We made it pretty clear how we feel.

Friday, June 10, 2005

Animal planet in my sisters neighborhood

My friend was outside my sister Krishna's house having a smoke when out of no were a hawk swooped down and snatched up one of the neighbors cats.  The cat was walking across the street.  It was around 930PM.  The hawk took the cat back to a palm tree across the street and ate it.  I wouldn't have believed him had I not heard the hawk screeching.  That and the sound of it eating the cat.
 
 

Thursday, June 09, 2005

Family Crisis

Tuesday I found out that my mom had fallen and broken her femur and that my brother in law Justin was in the ER for a severe migraine. Wednesday, I find out that Justin's MRI shows a huge mass on his Cerebellum. At that point, my sister falls apart. This has always been her greatest fear. Based on the MRI, it is definitely cancerous so they schedule him for surgery on Friday. They wanted to try and get the swelling in is brain down. The tumor was pushing is brain out of his skull. Thus the sever migraine. He went into brain surgery around 4PM Friday. The surgery was 6.5hours long. Around 7 or 8PM, I had a bad feeling with regard to my mom so I had my sister Aimee go to her house and check on her. I couldn't leave the ICU waiting room. I'm glad I had my sister check, mom was pretty close to dieing. I had my sister call 911 so that we could get her into the ER ASAP. Since I was already at the hospital with Justin, I met mom at the ER. Around 1045PM or so, Aimee stopped by the ER. She took my place in the ICU waiting room. The tumor was a lot worse than expected. Mom was severely dehydrated, anemic, had a UTI infection and along with her broken femur, looks like she has fractures in both hips. Possibly more, their doing a full body bone scan today. She is comfortable though. Justin is awake and talking but very scared and in lots of pain. He is going to be in the ICU until the pathology reports get back mid/end of this week. They suspect the cancer is level 3 which, statistics give him 2-3 years.