Life is crazy. We've been thrown a couple loops to deal with. Eric's Mom was diagnosed stage 4 lung cancer three weeks ago. Already spread to her liver and spine. She was home and managing on her own but suddenly needed the hospital last week. She is still there. It's not good. Eric is managing one day at a time. She isn't eating and so we try to send food every day that might entice her. Eric isn't comfortable in hospitals. I'm trying to kept things as normal as possible at home.
To add to the mess, Scott, Eric's best friend who lives here with us in our suite, had a massive stroke. Eric thought he was acting odd on Sunday. He didn't see him Monday and checked on him Tuesday. He wasn't speaking words. Just garbled. So he helped him to the car and got him to the emergency room.
Both his Mom and friend were across the hall from each other. Scott seemed to be improving by little bits but then he was moved to Victoria for emergency surgery. He was at risk of another stroke so they replaced the calcified veins in his neck with veins from his legs yesterday. Five hour surgery. He's recovering now. His son and wife have come. They haven’t seen him in three years.
We are hoping he'll go to a rehab. place here. I'm hoping he'll be able to recover enough to come home. Not a lot of answers yet. He seems to have memory. He seems to know Eric and Adam.
On the day that both of them went to the hospital, the kids had some critter issues at home. Eugene had a litter box fecal issue so the kids locked him in the bathroom. Eric had to come home to bath the kitten. Then the girls called me later in the day to report that they went to clean the rat cage and little Charlotte was missing. I told them to remove cats and dogs and look for little poos. I went home at that point.
Thankfully Lili is old enough to babysit because we've really needed her help this past week.
Miss Charlotte was found the next morning. Honestly I really didn’t believe we'd ever find her. We had found little poops in the utility room and the door had been open during the day. We searched for hours and hours but we all thought she was likely outside and gone. Fei put a bowl of food outside of the cage and in the morning we could see that she had eaten so we started another search and found her right away! Such a relief. She was happy to go back in the cage and we enjoyed watching the littles run around and play.
Luk started a hip hop dance class last week. Cute video but no pictures. He loved it.
We had Eric's Mom's dog Jeeter here for the week but he is a rotti cross and he was showing some aggression towards the cats and Isabel so Eric's sister took him.
My parents left on a cruise so we have their little dogs here.
Eugene is super cute and really busy. He's keeping us entertained and busy.
Back to school tomorrow. Not excited. Seriously going to miss the girls. Not looking forward to the extra work. Jia meets her teacher on Tuesday and part days Thursday and Friday. She won't start full days until the next week. She goes back and forth between looking forward to school and dreading it.
Tuesday is Luk's 3rd Birthday. His first with us. We're doing a family party.
I wanted the back to school and Birthday blogs to be seperate from the heaviness of this post.
We’re ok. There isn't anything anyone can do to help. There isn't much we can do either. Feels awful to be so helpless.
