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28467. judithathome - 2/18/2015 10:13:26 PM ...and I hate to mention: I have the windows open and the doors, too. 28468. arkymalarky - 2/18/2015 11:43:15 PM Our forecast: Friday freezing rain, high in low 30s. Saturday thunderstorms, high in 60s. 28469. arkymalarky - 2/19/2015 12:46:19 AM I ended up staying home today, tho I'd planned to go. We're still out of power. On our way to get Spook from the airport, and it would be too good if it were on when we got home. The generator keeps us in devices and other necessities, and propane keeps us warm, but no water sucks. 28470. judithathome - 2/19/2015 7:47:26 PM You can always run up to the truck stop for a shower...heh!
Seriously, it's no laughing matter...just hope this doesn't last as long as "the Great Ice Storm"! 28471. arkymalarky - 2/19/2015 11:30:43 PM they were out too. And apparently Gary's not using the generator to keep going anymore. They just shut down.
Jim's still out. 28472. Ms. No - 2/19/2015 11:44:33 PM Judith,
Are you talking about the ice storm back in the early 80's? My Bopka was in town and took me and my little brother to a museum that day. The taxi wouldn't come into our apartment complex --- we were living in the massive Village complex then --- and we had to gingerly walk about a half a mile downhill on ice to get back home.
Weird how I remember the ice and the trip, but not whether it was Pompeii or King Tut that we saw. Bizarre. 28473. arkymalarky - 2/20/2015 1:35:55 AM This one was 2000. We were out of power 11 days. It was wicked on the roads for days. This one was so mild to have taken down so many limbs. It's just the way it fell and stuck. Roads were never slick. 28474. Iiibbb - 2/20/2015 2:02:39 PM My dad is in the hospital. Stroke symptoms either because of a stroke or blood infection. High fever.
I feel pessimistic and guilty I don't [u]feel[/u] more. Life has always felt inevitable to me. My mom and dad and family are more religious than I am, so there is a lack of connection on that wavelength.
I am worried and hopeful that this is transient. I'm not panicked because there is nothing unsaid between me and my dad.
The universe is big and old.
Who knows what happens to souls.
I'd be an atheist if it weren't for souls. As it is I'm a amystical Christian agnostic something or another.
Well anyway.... That's my day today 28475. Iiibbb - 2/20/2015 2:22:22 PM My dad is in the hospital. Stroke symptoms either because of a stroke or blood infection. High fever.
I feel pessimistic and guilty I don't [u]feel[/u] more. Life has always felt inevitable to me. My mom and dad and family are more religious than I am, so there is a lack of connection on that wavelength.
I am worried and hopeful that this is transient. I'm not panicked because there is nothing unsaid between me and my dad.
The universe is big and old.
Who knows what happens to souls.
I'd be an atheist if it weren't for souls. As it is I'm a amystical Christian agnostic something or another.
Well anyway.... That's my day today 28476. arkymalarky - 2/20/2015 3:40:29 PM I hope your dad is OK. How old is he? Read a really nice oped by Oliver Sacks yesterday on aging and death. I can't post a link but I'll post the URL:
nytimes.com/comments/2015/02/19/opinion/oliver-sacks-on-learning-he-has-terminal-cancer.html 28477. Iiibbb - 2/20/2015 3:52:32 PM 74
Fever and stroke are not good together 28478. judithathome - 2/20/2015 9:28:48 PM No, not a good sign but not necessarily dire...my son had so many TIAs and several more severe strokes over the years. So don't jump to conclusions...the fever could be from a mild infection but it sounds worse because he happened to have a stroke at the same time as the fever.
28479. judithathome - 2/20/2015 9:31:58 PM back in the early 80's?
Only biggie exhibit in the early 80s I recall is the Chinese TerraCotta Soldiers. (in FW, anyhow...in Dallas, it was Tut.)
Keoni I left the area in '82 so I missed the "biggest" winter storm in memory...I think that's the one to which you are referring. 28480. iiibbb - 2/20/2015 9:40:48 PM Last conversation I had with mom it was 50:50, so it's bad. Traveling tomorrow probably in case decisions need to be made.
Need to talk to my 5 yr old. He's figured out that people die and it has been on his mind for a few months.
He will worry if I leave without talking about it. 28481. iiibbb - 2/20/2015 9:43:33 PM He had gas bubbles throughout his brain - whatever that means. This is strictly to do with a blood infection, and apparently not related to the heart ablations he had 3 weeks ago.
Unless that is what introduced the pathogen. I would also be interested if he might have had an infection, and the greatly improved circulation after his surgery didn't allow it to spread. 28482. judithathome - 2/20/2015 10:14:35 PM Well, if you can, before you leave...read up on this sort of thing so the doctor will know you that you are hearing/understanding and are willing to check him out on the info he gives you....some doctors talk down to people because they don't give them credit for having brains. 28483. judithathome - 2/20/2015 10:18:07 PM A doctor friend of mine once told me: "We're not Gods...it's up to you all* to remind us of that fact."
*(she's Texan) 28484. iiibbb - 2/20/2015 10:47:18 PM After our miscarriages and being introduced to research doctors who are willing to talk about the science, my expectations have changed. 28485. arkymalarky - 2/21/2015 7:15:39 PM We'll be thinking about you 3i3b. 28486. arkymalarky - 2/21/2015 7:20:01 PM Wabbit, blink if you still have electricity!
66 degrees and storming here. 38 and freezing rain yesterday, dropping today, cold again tomorrow, more freezing rain. One day years ago before I was around, Stan and I think spook saw snow sleet sunshine thunder lightning and rain in one day.
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