Zapped
Can't continue the detailed account today. So, so tired. It's no wonder
though. Briefly:
3/26: Dad life-fighted to Louisville.
4/14: Dad brought back to M'ville by ambulance. Admitted
to Med/Surg at Regional Medical Center.
4/20: Dad dies at 10:58 p.m.
4/24: Dad is buried at West KY Veteran's Cemetery with full
military honors (30 year Navy officer)
4/25: 3:00 a.m. or so: Eldest brother and his girlfriend
leave in the middle of the night. Everyone drinking that
night. Words exchanged. I wasn't there (youngest had school
the next day so I went home early)
4/28: Take my sister and her daughter to Nashville. Spot
the beagles on the parkway. Stay until they are rescued.
Arrive in N'ville and stay the night with Lauren.
4/29: Take my sis and niece to the airport at 7 a.m.
5/01: Return to work and classes. Have one more month
of Spanish, Psychology, and Philosophy to complete.
5/02-6/18: Life's a blur. Brain in a fog. Wrote some things. Just
drifted and cried most every day. Several times a day.
6/18--Father's Day: Mom planned a big picnic.
We were going to celebrate out in the back by Dad's
garden. Rained all morning. Ate inside. Too
emotional to go see my fahter-in-law. Called
and left him a message that I would be by to see him
on Tuesday.
11:00 p.m.: Call from my mother-in-law. Father-in-law
had a heart attack. Was admitted at 5 that evening.
6/19, Monday: Called to check on father-in-law (Gene).
Reported to be feeling better.
6/20: 6:30--Go to hospital to see Gene. He looks good
and says he's feeling better. Docs are running tests.
6/21: Don't go to hospital--class night. No word from
mother-in-law (Marie). Hoping all is ok.
6/22: Daughter's 25th birthday. Called her then called Marie.
Gene in CCU--heart failure. Will need a quadruple bypass.
6/23-7/06: Can't remember--too much going on.
7/06. Quadruple Bypass. Gene did well. Long way to go.
7/26: Oldest son's 28th birthday
8/07: Gene moved to long-term care facility for further rehab
8/15: Start my Stats class. Every T & Th. morning. 9:30-
10:45. Must work an extra hour to and hour and a half
to make up time.
8/22: Gene sent to hospital with fever, CHF, and pneumonia.
8/25: Emergency surgery performed. Wound infected with
clostridium perfringens. Serious. Serious. Did well in surgery.
8/27: Call from friend. Wants to die (as in suicide).
8/28: My 30th wedding anniversary.
8/29: Mother-in-law told by doc that her right foot
must go in a cast and boot. Sends her to the sports rehab
facility to be shown the correct way to use a walker.
Driving restrictions. Much pain in her foot.
8/29: D shows up at my house. Wants to stay for a few nights.
Paranoia worse. Feels she's being stalked. Draining night.
8/30: Drive to Owensboro for Criminology class. 2 hour round trip.
Get home and youngest son tells me to call my mom. She may have skin cancer.
8/30: Mom goes for cataract surgery evaluation. Doc tells her he thinks
she may have skin cancer in the inner corner of her right eye. Wants
to treat it with drops and an eye wash for one month. Will
evaluate again on 9/30. If necessary, biposy. If cancer, will send
Mom to Louisville for surgery.
8/31: D back again. Let her stay on 8/29. Said no on 8/30. Reluctantly
let her stay this night.
9/01: Father-in-law moved to a wound vac rehab facility in Evansville,IN.
55 miles away. May be there 4-6 weeks.
9/02: Walk an hour. Take Marie to get some things done. Come home.
Crash.
9/03: Work in yard 4-5 hours.
9/04: Spend several hours on Stats. Confused. Take Marie to E'ville.
Visit with Gene. Leave Marie at the hospital. Go to Best Buy
and get 2 computer chairs. I go to Michael's (son and husband
are still in Best Buy) and get funeral cones, oil paints, brushes,
some canvases, a picture frame, and a cobalt blue genie bottle.
Go to Borders. Buy Larry Levis's Elegy, Rolling Stone
magazine (Dylan on the cover), and 3 Lindor's truffles.
5:30. Go back to hospital. Visit a little longer. Take Grandma (Marie)
to Olive Garden to eat. Get home at 8:45. Read some Levis and Laux
and the Dylan interview. Crash. Sleep very poorly.
9/05: Work. School. Fatigue.
3 comments:
hey -- I just happen to be up at the grocery store last Monday morning and saw the Rolling Stone and had to buy it (altho I haven't read RS for years) -- the most interesting thing about trhe article was seeing Dylan through the eyes of someone younger --
got tickets to see Richard Thompson at the Carolina Theatre in August. I waited too long and didn't get very good seats. Oh well. At least it's in a place where they let you take beer or wine back to your seat.
forgot to ask -- what you think of the Levis book....is it the first one you've read? Elegies aren't the easiest poems to get into....would be interested to hear what you think.
Yes, it was interesting to read about Dylan from a younger person's POV. My 15 year old loves Dylan, and his perspective on the man and his music is so interesting.
Was that your first RT concert? I thought he was just amazing when I saw him in Nashville last year.
Elegy is my first Levis exposure. I am not sure what I think yet. I've read a few of the poems a couple of times but still can't quite get into them, but I haven't been in a very good frame of mind of late, and I think that has much ado about nothing.
:)
I do like his attention to detail. I'll keep you posted as I read more.
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