A challenging 2018

I will be honest....2018 is a tough one.

Mom and dad 's health is still quite iffy. We just about lost dad a couple weeks ago so DS took him to ER and they tested him up the wazoo. Couldn't breathe. Exhausted after a couple steps. They didn't really come up with any 'this is why' reasons. They did give him pills for water on his lungs, but those have lowered his blood pressure too much and he's close to passing out.    Mom continues on. She is done her radiation. She's done a couple more biopsies and a bone scan. She has good days and less good days.

My niece had her baby prematurely. They knew ahead of time there were issues so she was in the city with a top team of doctors. Thank goodness because as she went into labour 4 weeks early, she started to hemorrhage. The doctor said they had less than two minutes to get her to the OR or they would have lost them both. Baby is not great. She had to have a surgery for blockages in her intestines. She hasn't been able to pass anything through her intestines and out. She is breathing on her own so that is good. Tests have been sent off to determine genetic issues. We kept this from mom as long as we could to get her through her radiation trips to the city without added stress.

Work has been..... I have no words.  just one. Tragedy.  I won't discuss it on here, but suffice to say there are a whole lot of people putting one foot in front of the other trying to keep moving while we deal with things that are hard to understand.

I come home from work, go take care of mom and dad and make them supper, then come home and just want to collapse. I am literally mentally exhausted.

needless to say I haven't been blogging and WW has taken a sh*t kicking.