No news is good news, right?

Per GK, Kat was admitted for observation and testing last night. It seems pretty clear that she's not going to be flying back tomorrow. I've been over to her place---the cats are alive and fed and I updated her neighbor, who's going to continue to look in on them.

I'm operating in a state of fugue. Thirty years of memories are at odds with the last year or so, and especially the last couple of months. The woman who taught me to drive a stick, who wrote in to the newspaper to correct the Roman numerals they used to advertise a sale, my long-standing lunch date who I could talk with for hours---that lady is gone. Right now in Oklahoma, there's a woman with her DNA and her fingerprints, but that's not HER. Wanting her to remain, like that, is selfishness on my part, and futile.

Cherish your loved ones, my friends. Not just because it's "Christmas time", but because you just don't know when time's up. Their time, or yours....

Thanks for your support.

No news is good news, right?

Per GK, Kat was admitted for observation and testing last night. It seems pretty clear that she's not going to be flying back tomorrow. I've been over to her place---the cats are alive and fed and I updated her neighbor, who's going to continue to look in on them.

I'm operating in a state of fugue. Thirty years of memories are at odds with the last year or so, and especially the last couple of months. The woman who taught me to drive a stick, who wrote in to the newspaper to correct the Roman numerals they used to advertise a sale, my long-standing lunch date who I could talk with for hours---that lady is gone. Right now in Oklahoma, there's a woman with her DNA and her fingerprints, but that's not HER. Wanting her to remain, like that, is selfishness on my part, and futile.

Cherish your loved ones, my friends. Not just because it's "Christmas time", but because you just don't know when time's up. Their time, or yours....

Thanks for your support.

Kat Update

There's something resembling good news. I talked to GK a little bit ago, and per her, apparently Kat wasn't admitted last night. Last night I talked to her around 9PM, when Kat was still at the hospital---GK *thought* she was going to be admitted. In the end, though, she was given an IV, rehydrated and was released. According to the 3rd-hand news I have, she's more lucid and WILL be flying home as scheduled tomorrow.

Thanks for all your good thoughts, I'm sure they helped.

Kat Update

There's something resembling good news. I talked to GK a little bit ago, and per her, apparently Kat wasn't admitted last night. Last night I talked to her around 9PM, when Kat was still at the hospital---GK *thought* she was going to be admitted. In the end, though, she was given an IV, rehydrated and was released. According to the 3rd-hand news I have, she's more lucid and WILL be flying home as scheduled tomorrow.

Thanks for all your good thoughts, I'm sure they helped.