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Bella and Chain is almost but not quite updated. I've update Bella through Dec. 8, and Chain too, and will be updating Nonyomni in a few moments. I have solved the technical difficulty of updating The Donor: Rosemary found my notebook with the chapter in it under an afghan here at my father's house, where I've been the last two days and will be until Tuesday. However, I have no FTP access in this house so no Terry and Jack and Eurick until probably after Christmas.
I saw my stepmother on Saturday. She's been moved to the rehabilitation center at Kaiser Hospital Vallejo, which is apparently the best rehab center in the country, and all because of unions and litigation. When the UMW (mineworkers) got their big black lung settlement, they shopped around for an institution to give money to to build a rehab center and they decided on Kaiser because it was the best deal they could get and Kaiser has good relations with unions anyway. So Moher's supposed to be there until abotu Jan.6, working six to eight hours a day every day on rehab stuff. Apparently she is doing very well for three weeks after a severe stroke. She can't do anythign with her right hand yet but she can move that shoulder, and similar with the right leg, but best of all she can talk quite a bit though her words will give out on her at the most frustrating times. Most characteristically, she laughs a lot.
also liked what I saw of Vallejo town, which is the first time I've driven around in it for probably forty years. It's a grimy industrial city, but it has a warm and inclusive atmosphere, meaning the signs of ethnicity are mixed up and people seemed friendly.
Because of all these things -- my father's pain and disability, Moher's stroke, Emma's problem, etc. etc., Christmas is starting to seem like a minor but persistent irritation. People on the nice fellow's side of the family are being really sweet and wanting to get together and maybe band together to do some volunteering as a family and I'm just overwhelmed because it's all this scheduling and negotiation and I can't think straight. Even though a large part of my time is spent sitting and waiting to be needed.
I saw my stepmother on Saturday. She's been moved to the rehabilitation center at Kaiser Hospital Vallejo, which is apparently the best rehab center in the country, and all because of unions and litigation. When the UMW (mineworkers) got their big black lung settlement, they shopped around for an institution to give money to to build a rehab center and they decided on Kaiser because it was the best deal they could get and Kaiser has good relations with unions anyway. So Moher's supposed to be there until abotu Jan.6, working six to eight hours a day every day on rehab stuff. Apparently she is doing very well for three weeks after a severe stroke. She can't do anythign with her right hand yet but she can move that shoulder, and similar with the right leg, but best of all she can talk quite a bit though her words will give out on her at the most frustrating times. Most characteristically, she laughs a lot.
also liked what I saw of Vallejo town, which is the first time I've driven around in it for probably forty years. It's a grimy industrial city, but it has a warm and inclusive atmosphere, meaning the signs of ethnicity are mixed up and people seemed friendly.
Because of all these things -- my father's pain and disability, Moher's stroke, Emma's problem, etc. etc., Christmas is starting to seem like a minor but persistent irritation. People on the nice fellow's side of the family are being really sweet and wanting to get together and maybe band together to do some volunteering as a family and I'm just overwhelmed because it's all this scheduling and negotiation and I can't think straight. Even though a large part of my time is spent sitting and waiting to be needed.
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