Sorry to have been so silent lately. I've had family here for the month and I've been riding a stress roller coaster ever since my dad went in for surgery on April 24. He has been in ICU ever since for a series of increasingly horrific developments and has taken yet another turn for the worse. I'd already planned an emergency trip for today though that plan was made when I was hoping to catch him when he was lucid. Instead of the trip being for him I guess now it's for me.

I'm related to just about the entirety of eastern Florida, I think, but I only seem to get back there for sad family events. Just last August we buried my grandmother in St. Augustine and now I'm headed to Fort Lauderdale. I'll be out of touch since haven't yet gotten the laptop I promised myself I'd get before taking another trip because I didn't expect to need it before my vacation in September.

I'll catch up with everyone sometime after I get back.