Catching people up

[wendolen]

Most of the people who read this journal also follow me on either Twitter or Facebook, so most of you have seen choppy, miserable mini-updates. The short form is that my mom, who on Sunday seemed to be feeling kind of lousy but otherwise okay, is dying pretty quickly of metastatic pancreatic cancer. Yesterday it felt pessimistic but realistic to

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[drakemonger]

When my father died it was one of the hardest things that I ever went through. Now, close to two years later, I finally feel like I'm mostly past it, though I'm still choked up with grief now and then. It will be hard. How hard it is, is a testament to how much you mattered to each other. You'll survive it, but right now I imagine that to be cold comfort. I'm sorry.

[wendolen]

Thanks, Sean. By coincidence, I began reading your journal while you were back in Minnesota taking care of your dad's affairs, so I feel like I have at least some idea of how hard it's been for you.

I'm mostly cried out and doing pragmatic crisis-management stuff right now, but I imagine it's going to come in waves for a long time.