comfort care

sorry about the paucity of updates lately. a mini-vacation to start the year, followed by a ridiculously busy week last week in the office, and now a weekend of illness (others, not mine) make for not much time to check in here.

erin's battling some kind of flu bug, brendan's just getting over a weekend of MOOFE (multiple-orifice odorous fluid expulsion), and my gram was diagnosed with acute leukemia yesterday.

87 years old and in the throes of alzheimer's disease, she's not been herself for years. but she's maintained fair overall health until the past day or two, when she drifted out of sorts a bit. the nurses at her assisted living facility sent her over to the hospital yesterday at 10, and by 4 we found out it was likely leukemia.

already stricken with a terminal illness (her alzheimer's), the decision on what to do now was fairly simple: comfort care. she will likely enter under hospice care tomorrow, and soon move on to a better place.

no better comfort care than up there.