Update from Andover
Feb. 16th, 2004 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grinninfooleI came up last Wednesday night to help out around mom's surgery, and it's been OK staying here in my parents' house. M has been here since Saturday, and we've been able to spend some time together, and go and visit our mothers in their respective hospitals.
My mother's operation was last Thursday, and I'm happy to report that all went very well. In fact, things have gone so smoothly that mom has actually come home today, a day early. This is good. Now that she's home, she's very tired and anxious, my dad is bellowing and whining, and I'm getting really frustrated. I very much want to go home right now, but I'll be here for at least another week. This is going to be very trying.
When I'm not being helpful, I need to be reading for school and resist the temptation to read other stuff, or watch tv, or whatever, which the old family dynamic really triggers for me. It's also quite tempting to give my dad a slap sometimes, especially when he is so disrespectful of all of us.
thanks to Lefty and Fuschia for swapping cars with me for this trip. I have enjoying their cds and cd player. I hope Boskone went well.
My mother's operation was last Thursday, and I'm happy to report that all went very well. In fact, things have gone so smoothly that mom has actually come home today, a day early. This is good. Now that she's home, she's very tired and anxious, my dad is bellowing and whining, and I'm getting really frustrated. I very much want to go home right now, but I'll be here for at least another week. This is going to be very trying.
When I'm not being helpful, I need to be reading for school and resist the temptation to read other stuff, or watch tv, or whatever, which the old family dynamic really triggers for me. It's also quite tempting to give my dad a slap sometimes, especially when he is so disrespectful of all of us.
thanks to Lefty and Fuschia for swapping cars with me for this trip. I have enjoying their cds and cd player. I hope Boskone went well.
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Date: 2004-02-16 04:01 pm (UTC)I'm glad to hear your mom's surgery went well. I'm sorry, though, about that old family dynamic kicking in...I know I've seen and felt this happen when I'm home for just a day.
I was saying to Lefty, "I hope Doom likes odd showtune soundtracks and random section of Harry Potter books on cd." :) Thank *you* for the loan of the van. Boskone went fairly well - we'll give you the full report when you get back.
Love to you and M,
Fuschia
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Date: 2004-02-16 05:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-17 07:15 pm (UTC)just saw this today, forgot you told me you'd posted it. i well remember sending you grumpy emails when i stayed at my parents' house in the aftermath of my mom's transplant. it's really hard to be an adult and return to a place where people are used to interacting with you the way they did 10-15 years ago. it's like being trapped in a time warp - very disorienting, and yet dismayingly familiar.
i did not go to the studio. see my post why. i'm going to call you right now, in fact, i think.