a moment on a Saturday

[whitereflection]

It's still a bit startling to consider that even at the beginning of this week, we were still planning on a funeral today. But now there's not one--still have parts of my mind that still can't quite bend around that fact. Amazing, amazing. Anyway, the brother's in town with his girlfriend, as they'd already booked the flight in and figured they'd just turn it into an excuse to visit today. Will be a crowded day today, I imagine--I think my younger cousin's bringing her kids up as well.

Least my aunt's making a bit more sense again, since they took her off the Haldol. Though there was an interesting moment when her surgeon stopped in, and she told him she was frustrated because her body was so weak and she's having such trouble moving around (her physical therapy right now involves simply her sitting up on the edge of the bed). And he outright told her, "Well, that's because you nearly died. You got as near to dying as a person could get." I'm not quite sure if she really *understands* that yet. He and we may keep having to tell her, so that she'll be patient with herself and recover well, and not be too frustrated that she can't bounce up and walk out to go home *right now*. I wonder when she'll start asking to go have a smoke again. >_>; That should be interesting. Because yeah, noooot happening. But yeah, the surgeon also told her, "The whole hospital's talking about you." Might be an exaggeration, but all of her doctors are saying this is something they've heard happens, but had not in their careers ever seen for themselves.

Anyway. Finally finished listening to Muse's The Resistance CD, did so a couple times. Really dig it, and will probably listen a couple more times when I get a chance to figure out my favorites.

Finally, *finally* found a wallpaper of the boys I liked, after months of poking around (one by awakencordy at threelayers). And now I'm like in lust with my desktop or something. >_> It's distracting.

25.5" monitor + this = HhhhhhhhhhhAWESOME. Down, hormones, down. And I *still* want Sam's blade. Holy beans. ♥

Comments

[chez-amanda.livejournal.com]

That's a hell of a thing, it really is. I'm guessing she's very stubborn? She sounds like it :) But hey, no funeral is better than any funeral at all.


Ohhh, pretty. I might have to use that as well. In fact, I am :D

[coyotesuspect.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure what happened, being new here and all, but it sounds like a miracle. I'm glad everything worked out all right.

And that's a damn fine desktop. UNF.

[akintay.livejournal.com]

I skimmed your last posts to find out what exactly happened, and man, I'm so happy for you! That's pretty amazing!

And guh, I LOVE THE WALLPAPER!

[whitereflection.livejournal.com]

Stubborn is so an understatement. My Dad would definitely agree with this. ^^;

\:D/ Desktop wallpaper twins!

[whitereflection.livejournal.com]

It really is. :) Basically, my aunt that's my Dad's younger sister has been dealing with ovarian cancer for about the last 11 years. She had a major surgery a couple weeks back, and things went really south--kidney and respiratory failure, the sort of thing that is pretty much known to be very close 100% fatal, as it starts a cascade of other organs failing. Her team of doctors truly believed there was no hope, and our family followed her living will about removing her from the ventilator. A few days later, though, it became obvious that she *wasn't* passing on, but was actually starting to respond to stimulus, and labwork showed her kidneys were working again. She was put back on fluids, antibiotics, etc, and by middle of this past week was starting to speak and demanding Diet Coke and such. It's going to be a very tough and long recovery (and there's still the cancer), but good gravy, it's a recovery. \o/

Anyway, pardon all the text. XD; I'm still really prone to babbling about it all.

[whitereflection.livejournal.com]

♥ Probably one of the most amazing things that's ever happened to our family. But if that sort of thing would happen to anyone, it'd be my aunt. She's an awesome, absolutely larger-than-life sort of woman.

[chez-amanda.livejournal.com]

My aunt Chris was the same way. She'd gone through so much crap in her life - paralyzed out of nowhere at 16 (seriously, she woke up one day and couldn't walk, it was some virus in her spine), then diabetes and other health problems and multiple surgeries. She had been very independent despite living with my grandma. She used to be a dancer before she was paralyzed, then joined a wheelchair dance company in the early 90s that had both paralyzed and non-paralyzed dancers that did routines together. So when she died five years ago during a surgery, we were all shocked because she had always come out just fine from them. My mom and I think that it had to do with grandma dying 6 months before and how close they were, she just couldn't do it anymore.

Okay, yeah, didn't expect to go into all that. My point was that she was very stubborn in spite of all the crap life threw at her.

[whitereflection.livejournal.com]

Sounds like she was a really, really cool person :) I hadn't heard of dance groups like that--would be really neat to see perform. I really feel for you and your family's loss of her. Someone like that is just special and awesome. I don't think I'd have handled any of that nearly so well (or what my own aunt's going through).

[ormolu.livejournal.com]

I have to agree, your aunt's story is pretty awe-inspiring. I hope that she continues to mend quickly. :)