Fam health stuff-- I'm not going to get too specific here about the exact health situations in the following, for various reasons.... Friends are welcome to ask me more via PM.


My brother reports steady physical progress for our Mom (Californy). He went to a "transitional" facility yesterday and liked it. Mom will probably go there next, don't know when, and then after that probably some home health care will spupplement what my brother, who is now her roommate, can do for her in addition to his more-than-fulltime self-employment "scxhedule."


My sister's third round of treatment was yesterday, at the world-class facility just 2 blocks from her apartment (Chicago). She says she is feeling OK so far, and so it looks like my now-mid-Novemeber visit it going to be just about right-- a good opportunity to spend some "goodtime" with her. (Some fam member has to scope out the local support system and caregiving logistics she will need family to work with, in time; as the only one of us who does not punch a timeclock, so to speak, I'm "it." I have done this for other fam members in the past. Not quite under such tricky constraints.)

In the meantime I am sending prezzies.

She isn't talking yet about how far the most-hoped remission is supposed to help the other areas that had already been affected before she discovered all this. And some of those are pretty scary areas; as far as I know she is not yet tapping into local or online peer support. We have not been close for some time, tho for a long time we had been; so I'm not in a position to encourage her to join a support group but have passed word about that along, to other fam members, who can and, hopefully, will. (None of them AFAIK have had a close touch with any terminal illness, so as we all redefine relationships in light of her current need for support I hope to be able to add a gentle hint of reality when I go see her and her closest friends.)

I WANT to go NOW. But I trust that now is not the time.

~Susan