Update or Why My Blogging is Sporadic

Not just regular sloth this time, my dad has has been doing very badly lately.

The good news about this (as hard as it is to believe that there could be good news) is that my superhero sister came home to help take care of him.


 In fact, she came in through BWI (the airport close to me) last Wednesday and I drove her up last Friday. 



In between we took her to National Gallery, her favorite museum!

 And then on Friday I drove her up to my folks, and the 5 hour drive took 8 crazy traffic filled hours.

Mmmm...pulp.

Somewhere around the 7th hour, we stopped for gas and she got a bottle of peach aloe juice. 

"Try some," she said, "it's really good."

It had "pulp," which is literally translated as "small slug like bits of aloe that bump into your lips when you try to drink it."

She laughed...immoderately.

Amazingly, I did not actually leave her at the gas station.

Anyway, there is more good news.  We were starting to think my dad needed to be transferred to hospice, and instead he ended up in the hospital again where they found his sudden inability to walk and debilitating pain may turn out to be less cancer and Parkinson's and more an impinged nerve.

They can fix that!  But I'd be super grateful for prayers!

Prayer Request

A friend of a friend has been in a live in relationship with a man for some 20 years now. On Sunday he suffered a massive heart attack and died very suddenly. He was about 60. Please pray for the repose of his soul, and for her suffering. She is really in shock. I don't think either of them had religious inclinations.

I know it is dreadfully hard to deal with sudden tragedy without God.

I also wonder if being in a quasi married relationship makes it harder to deal with the death of a non-spouse. You have all the pain of being widowed, but you can't say what people would readily understand: "My husband died."

I have only met her two or three times, so I don't know what she is feeling, except through mutual friends who are caring for her, and I never met him, but please pray for them both.