Weekend in NH
Sep. 20th, 2009 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kumir_k9Monique and I both took Friday off to go to NH. My Aunt Margaret, my mother's oldest remaining sister, was given a week to a week and a half to live, kind of suddenly. She asked that all of the family on my mother's side be asked to see her before she died.
In addition, my father-in-law, also in NH, was diagnosed with lung cancer on Wednesday. Let's just say that there was much emotional not-so-goodness going on on both Monique's side and mine, so we spent the whole weekend up there with family members, splitting our time up to give as much emotional support as possible.
By the time we got up there, my aunt had already slipped to the point that she was never conscious again. While we did get to see her alive, we did not get to speak to her. I wish we had left one day earlier. Oh well.
Monique's dad was in moderately good spirits all things considered. We spent all day Saturday playing cards with my in-laws. I'm glad we went. He goes in for more testing this week to find out what stage the cancer is at. Cross your fingers, send prayers and well wishes. He's one of the best people on the planet and he deserves all the best.
My dad was in a pretty bad way today. I couldn't even rouse him. They checked his oxygen and other things. He apparently just had a really rough night and was too tired to wake up. Randy and I are talking about ways to improve his quality of life at this point because it doesn't look like his quantity of life is going to get any better, regardless of what is done now.
We rushed back to CT because I had a flute choir rehearsal tonight. We had another new member tonight. She's a good, middle of the road player. It was a decent rehearsal.
Sadly, the Patriots lost to the Jets today. :-(
In addition, my father-in-law, also in NH, was diagnosed with lung cancer on Wednesday. Let's just say that there was much emotional not-so-goodness going on on both Monique's side and mine, so we spent the whole weekend up there with family members, splitting our time up to give as much emotional support as possible.
By the time we got up there, my aunt had already slipped to the point that she was never conscious again. While we did get to see her alive, we did not get to speak to her. I wish we had left one day earlier. Oh well.
Monique's dad was in moderately good spirits all things considered. We spent all day Saturday playing cards with my in-laws. I'm glad we went. He goes in for more testing this week to find out what stage the cancer is at. Cross your fingers, send prayers and well wishes. He's one of the best people on the planet and he deserves all the best.
My dad was in a pretty bad way today. I couldn't even rouse him. They checked his oxygen and other things. He apparently just had a really rough night and was too tired to wake up. Randy and I are talking about ways to improve his quality of life at this point because it doesn't look like his quantity of life is going to get any better, regardless of what is done now.
We rushed back to CT because I had a flute choir rehearsal tonight. We had another new member tonight. She's a good, middle of the road player. It was a decent rehearsal.
Sadly, the Patriots lost to the Jets today. :-(
