She's fully awake now and knows who we are and remembers our friends and everything else.

Want to know what caused the mayhem? Nicotine withdrawal.

So don't smoke, kids.

And, only YOU can prevent forest fires.

Mom still has trouble recognizing people and she's not doing her deep breathing so she's back on the oxygen mask and sleep...and still in ICU. Tomorrow or the next day they're hoping she's strong enough that the neurologist that wants to see her can run some tests to figure out why she's so mentally fucked up. Now I'm finally starting to get really ( Read more... )

Tired ( Read more... )

Mom went into surgery around 8:15am...Nurse came out at 10am to tell us that she had a developing aortic aneurysm that should probably be worked on while they were in there, so we signed off on the paperwork and were told it would add two hours to the surgery. They have a system where the nurse can leave a message by phone every hour or two so you ( Read more... )

Oh yeah, you know you want me.

I'm a full-blown stress machine.

Friday night: Aaron's cousin reunion party in Northbrook. Basically, met a bunch of his cousins and sat around eating pizza and listened to them rag on each other. Cool people ( Read more... )

Maggie made a kick-ass poster for the concert tonight that said "Hey, Billy! It's my Sweet 16 ( Read more... )

So...firecrackers ( Read more... )

Alright...my mom's surgery is supposedly going to take place on July 15th at Sherman in Elgin. That's coming up really fast. And I'm really nervous about it.

Yeah.

So...here's what's going on ( Read more... )