Geez..almost a year later...

[happytootum]

I got email informing me that my paid account is expiring. I haven't used it much at all in a long time but find it hard not to renew it since it is only eighteen dollars or something...and I gave up Netflix DVDs so I can kinda rationalize it that way. Perhaps I should get back to lj since Facebook has become pretty annoying with changes and

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[jchammonds]

LJ is the best place online!

[happytootum]

I am really hoping I can start making this a more consistent journal...and use Facebook links to email photos to my parents...although I used to just email them URLs from here to look at too.

[happytootum]

Thanks. Yeah I can blather on here if I want to and people won't have to click Read More to read more...unless I make them..heh. My sister just started having seizures out of the blue last week. She had a really bad one at work and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. They weren't sure if it was a mini-stroke or what it was..but it seems to be recurrent seizures..also known as epilepsy...and they seem to be set off by computer screens, television..even scenery going by when she's in the car. She isn't allowed to drive until she's been seizure-free for a certain amount of time. They said six months...maybe less if she's lucky...and she's on meds that aren't working very effectively yet. She tried to go back to work yesterday and since she has two monitors on her desk that she has to look at almost constantly, her brain didn't like it I guess. She said it was like her neck got all relaxed and couldn't hold up her head and her head started falling back and bobbing around and she could feel a seizure coming on. Thankfully they're not

[happytootum]

Thanks, Liz. The stuff with my sister is just on top of news from my dad on how bad my mom's dementia is getting. He wrote me email the other day telling me that she was asking him questions like "Where is everybody?" "Where does our food come from?" "Who pays for it?" "Where did you come from?" ... she's also tried to make phone calls on the tv remote...sleeps a lot...can't express herself very well verbally at all and gets so frustrated with that..has described it as a prison. I'm so far away and I feel so helpless about the situation. The kids and I went up there last Easter and spent a week with them. It was bad then but it's so much worse now. Anyways..a lot of my depression is situational I guess, although I really think some of it is chemical in nature as I'm prone to that, especially after pregnancy and with my body starting to go through menopause, I think it's the same kind of thing...everything's out of whack. It's rough just getting out of bed some mornings. Thankfully I have to get my ass out of bed at 6:30 at least 5