Up in Oxford- visited Mom. After getting some info on what really happened to Mom, it looks like the doctor who messed up could be in for some serious litigation. She went in for a routine colonoscopy and is now pretty sick, due to the doc puncturing the intestine, and then they had to take 6 inches out and sew the ends together. Then come all the secondary problems with this...fever, risk of infection, the whole litany. Mom is more worried about everyone else than herself. garrrr...my dad isn't interested in suing. My parents are not a litigious type. But such an egregious error....? According to the doc the intestine was weak in that spot anyway, the intestines were in the wrong place, bladder in the wrong place. Well the doc fixed the mistake and in the process put everything in the right place, but Mom wasn't sick in the first place-felt fine and then during the exam the mistake happened- she could probably have lived with prolapsed intestines or whatever, or at least she could have had them fixed with much less discomfort than what she is dealing with now. Well Virgi and her mom have had no end of problems at the same hospital and at times I thought, wow, are they really doing all this wrong? But Vir knows her stuff, apparently. Grrrrr....well, we'll see if she's up to a suit after she's better and if she's interesting in lawyering up. My parents are afraid that if they sue no other doc in town will treat them. Now that doesn't seem fair, does it? Can doctors really do this? Is that why people are afraid now to take on Doris, because they're afraid of Virgi?

On top of that, Sierra's still at Children's. I saw her the other night and will go back tomorrow. I guess I missed a fight between Maria and Rachael. I just want Maria to stick around. It would be a good thing! Maria shouldn't take her seriously. Maria, if you're reading, please don't take her seriously! We love you!!!!!!

On top of that, my uncle Joe had a heart attack. Dad says it was mild. Dad usually makes things seem less serious than they are. So it was probably just a bit more than mild but if he's home in a couple of days as expected, then I guess it was mild. But now, like my dad, he will be taking a serious look at his own health and taking better care...my dad and uncle have always seemed to think they'd live effortlessly to be very old, like my grandpa did. "Longevity runs in the family". Yeah, especially if you till the land until what, age 70? Which Dad and Joe didn't do. Which Grandpa did.

On top of that, well, nothing. Well, something. Trying to get Micah to do his schoolwork. Getting prepared to put our house on the market. Christmas and jingle bells. Ho ho ho.