Aug. 17th, 2009

rachg82: (Made of win)
So, I actually have some important life-stuff to talk about (involving my Mom and her not-so-great health), but there are still results we're waiting to hear back on so I can't get super in-depth about it quite yet. For right now I'll just say this: my Mom was admitted into the hospital this weekend because of fluid around the heart and lungs. She's still there now, because they're waiting on said test results and are trying to get the fluid out with dialysis (she has kidney failure and has been on dialysis for quite some time). In the meantime, I'm not really sure why the fluid is there, as at first they thought it was because they weren't getting her down to her "dry weight" on dialysis, but it's like, okay, so why weren't they? They said it's because she lost weight, and they have to adjust things now, but still. It's confusing, and stressful. At least we know now that it wasn't a blockage (read: heart attack) that caused the problem most likely. That's what they were saying they thought it was at first, which brought back a lot of bad memories for me of when my Grandpa had his heart attack and passed away back in 2001, and when my Mom had her big heart attack back in 2006. Those both involved the same hospital, too. But it doesn't look like that's the case now, and I think she's going to be okay (as okay as ever, that is), but it's still concerning. What really sucks is that she can't be put on a transplant list until they deem her stable enough. And as most of you remember, she's a rapid-cycling bipolar patient with addiction issues, so "stable" is not exactly something you consistently associate with her. But that's not something I can think about too much, because there's no control I have over the situation. All I can do is hope for the best, and be grateful for the time we have together.

Anyway, I promise to keep you guys updated if/when I find more things out. But for now, I'm going to distract myself with a recap of the rest of season 4.0 of Battlestar Galactica (season 4.5 will come in my next post, because God knows I'm rambly), and my thoughts as I prepare to watch the series finale. Because tv-postage makes me feel better and because this show is made of awesome. Hopefully my ramblings are entertaining even if you haven't watched the show, but even if they aren't, there's just no way for me to watch this show & not have a place to talk about it. So, yeah. Heh.

P.S. check the icon! I finally got some BSG icons for my flaily posts. Hee. About time, I figured. So far they're all Adama/Roslin (I'm such a damn shipper, haha), except for of course this one which I had to go for because, hello, Roslin totes deserves her own icon. I heart Roslin to the nth degree, yo.

P.S.S. I've totally got my sci-fi hating sister watching this show now. She watched "Maelstrom" from season 3 with me this weekend, and also part of the miniseries. And then proceeded to say "frak" for the rest of the weekend pretty much non-stop. Hee! Now she wants to finish the miniseries next time I come over. It totally amuses me. She was SO eye-rolly about this show everytime I mentioned it before, now she's all "frak this" and wanting to find out what happens next. Haha. I will completely crack up if she gets hooked on this show, for real.

Battlestar Galactica has eaten my brain )

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