Thanks.

[eee1313]

First off, many thanks to everyone for the love over the past couple of days. I know I've been whiny and depressing, but I appreciate all your support, I really do. It means a lot.

Secondly, MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY HANNUKAH to everyone today/tonight! I hope you're all having wonderful holidays.

Thirdly, things are okay. This morning I had a very nice Christmas with Mom & Dad. (Random: I had a dream last night that I was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in my tongue because of the repetitive stress of talking too much. Then I met Simon Tam and he professed his love for me. Merry Christmas to me, from my subconscious. Heh.) Okay, anyway, Christmas was nice. We all exchanged presents, and I got some nice stuff. A few sweaters from my parents, DVDs of Serenity and Charlie & the Chocolate Factory from my sis and nephew, the John Mayer Trio CD from my brother-in-law, and my grandma got me purple leather gloves (now I look like Willy Wonka!) and a fuzzy purple hat that matches the scarf adjrun made me last year for Christmas. Yay! My sister sent all sorts of silly stocking stuffers as well, like glow-in-the-dark rubber ducks and Fashion Plates. I loved those when I was a kid. After presents, Yakgirl called, and she and her husband had worked it out with me last night that we could get a live video feed from their house. So they surprised my parents with the nephew on Christmas morning, which totally made their day. Mom cried a lot, which was nice. (They were happy tears.)

In more depressing news, I just got back from the hospital. Grandma is ... eh? She's lucid one minute, then goofy the next. She knows us all, and she's sort of okay. But then she doesn't realize she's in the hospital, or that it's Christmas. It's all very odd. But everyone, from Mom to the doctors, say that she's getting better. She's definitely going to have to go to a home for rehab, so that she can maybe walk again. But at this point, seeing as how much it's going to cost to have her in a home, Mom & Dad are going to look into the cost of a homecare nurse. Neither of them like the idea of a nursing home, especially my dad, which kind of surprises me. So if Grandma is lucid (she's having a psych evaluation later today), and if she can come home, then home care actually may be an option. I know it sounds like a bad idea, but it would probably be better for my grandma to be in familiar surroundings, and home care may be easier for my parents to deal with than a home. We'll see what happens. So yeah, that's ... that's something.

But for now, Mom, Dad & I are going to have a nice Christmas together. Dad's been dousing the ham with Vernors all morning, and dinner is on its way. Then tonight we're going to watch Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, because we think Dad will enjoy the combo of Roald Dahl + Tim Burton. Heh. Then I may stay up late to watch Serenity. Who knows.

Anyway, I hope you're all having lovely holidays. All my best to you and yours today. Take care, all. :D

Comments

[caille.livejournal.com]

"Dad's been dousing the ham with Vernors all morning, and dinner is on its way."

I am adding this to the list of fun things I will never actually say, myself.

Hugs and best wishes.

[georgevna.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Fashion Plates! I loooooooved those as a kid.

Glad your Christmas was good; praying your grandmother can have homecare. It's what we all want for ourselves, I think, so I hope it works out for your family.

Woo! Serenity! I got it for HHH. Because I'm all selfless like that. Heh.