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Are we ever ready to say “goodbye” to someone we love?
I never thought I’d be blogging about the loss of a cat
during the year I felt couldn’t surprise me anymore
with unexpected stress and a multitude of adversities.
REMEMBER when I first shared this?
10 days before Christmas, we lost our little Tux.
And, we almost lost my father three ways to Sunday.
And, we’re fighting like heck to get him the time he needs to RECOVER
whilst feeling harassed and railroaded by both doctors and the hospital.
In regards to my life behind the blog:
It will not come to a shocked surprise to anyone whose following me via Twitter the circumstances I’ve been facing alongside my Mum in regards to my Dad. For those of you who strictly follow my blog, I apologise for the long radio silence in updating you about why my blog has become a bit stagnant and has simply stopped where I left it during #SciFiMonth. I didn’t even get the chance to properly finish Sci Fi Month this past November nor did I get to release the prompt posts as I had intended to do either. Those are still lost to Drafts but they’re going to be finished this January (as it will give me something diverting to focus on) and the rest of my plans for #SciFiMonth will debut this November, 2023. Including my focus on the stories and writings of E. Chris Garrison.
You could say we had an insurrecting medical emergency which became compounded and complex as the days and weeks moved forward in regards to my father. He was hospitalised twice in November but the second time, instead of coming home he had to go into a rehab facility which also offered long-term care if needed. He had a wonderful surgeon at the hospital who did his due diligence and found that my father had a blood clot in his leg and at that time, he had found two aneurisms. I ought to mention that his former surgeon who saved his life post-stroke in [2016] was a changed man this time round. His bedside manner was abominable, and we fought for a second opinion which we learnt was never done. Mum and I are fierce and strong – guess they never met a family like ours, eh? Because of our insistence, Dad received top level care and had a vascular surgeon who went wayy past the extra mile to discern and diagnose what was wrong.
Not the best news to receive as a family by any means. However, we were still leaning hard on hope that perhaps despite this news there would be a bit of Hope for my father to recover and/or still have a bit of time with us overall. As any one of those conditions could be deadly in of its own.
