Compartment 14B
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A "down" week. 2008-10-21 - 9:03 a.m. I know, I know, I didn’t write as much as usual last week. What can I say? Life has kept me busy in general and learning the ins and outs of Photoshop has taken up a lot of my computer time. This week hasn’t been very good to our household: J’s great-aunt passed away and his almost-34-week-pregnant sister, who was very close to their great-aunt, has had some complications and has been administered steroid shots to help the baby’s lungs mature if he’s born early. She’s now on bed rest and can’t make it to the funeral, which will be later this week. She’s also the executor of the will, and while I don’t know a lot about how these things work in terms of when the will stuff has to be taken care of, I’m pretty sure this particular timing sucks. I tried to cheer J up by pointing out that his great-aunt had lived a long and relatively healthy life and that her decline had been mercifully short. She was, I believe, in her eighties and had been diagnosed with lung cancer only just over a month ago. She refused treatment and her death had been expected. To add to the general bad juju this week, Grommet complained that her bum was hurting but when I added the fact that she said her pee hurt I suspected a urinary tract infection. This was bourn out by a urine dip at the doctor’s yesterday, so she’s on antibiotics. They’ll do a culture to confirm that bacteria are the cause of the blood in her urine, but if it is they’ll be referring us to a urologist as, apparently, a UTI in a girl under three is normally investigated further to rule out problems like congenital defects. (FYI, a UTI in a boy at any age apparently should be investigated automatically.) Frankly, my initial reaction is that I’m not inclined to put her through any invasive tests based on one UTI, though I’ll certainly inform myself better and listen to the urologist’s point of view if it comes to that. So yeah, don’t be surprised if this week is also light on entries, or if I do write, if the entries aren’t exactly rays of sunshine. Sorry, my life is what it is, and this is where I write about it.
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I do know though, that both J and his sister would have liked to see her and she refused visitors or even phone calls because she didn’t want to be remembered as so ill. I sort of understand and it’s true that, as a result, I remember her as she had been for as long as I’d known her: lovely and gracious and sharp as a tack. Still, J would have dearly liked to at least introduce her to Biscuit and regrets that he didn’t make the effort before we knew she was sick. Poor guy. He just couldn’t have known and it seemed like we had all the time in the world to make the introduction so what would be the harm in waiting until J’s sister was up and organized her usual family get-together?
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