Spilled Over

Our crappy year has spilled over to my sister visiting from down south.  Her daughter checked on her empty house and found a mess apparently created by a rat infestation.  Her granddaughter was involved in a roll over car accident and now my sister struck a deer. She took the deer square in the grill so she's without a vehicle for a couple of weeks.  Oh, and I almost forgot, during her visit last spring, she fell and broke a bone in her hand.

Not Home

Every day for a week I've driven the Boss to the hospital so we could sit around hoping her sister would wake up.  The Docs say her sister has no upper level brain function, to go with kidney and liver issues.  All medications were discontinued 2 days ago, and then the vent removed this morning. She's breathing on her own, shallow and inconsistent. No one knows how long her body will hang on, but we're all sure she isn't there any more.

I hate it when the Boss cries.  When she cries, I cry.

Update . . . . . . . . . 11/16
Her body didn't make it 24 hours.  Yesterday the Boss was in bad shape all day.  She didn't want anyone around her, not even me.  She was breaking my heart.  Today she's much better, almost as if nothing has happened. 

The service is this Monday.  I expect her emotions to hit another low. She's the only one left from her small family of 4.

And Another Crap Storm

And our shitty year continues.  Yesterday morning at about 2am, the Bosses sisters heart stopped for about 10 minutes.  She's now in the ICU with several IVs running and being warmed up after 24 hours of keeping her body way colder than normal.  The thought is to minimize possible brain damage. Tests for heart attack and stroke are negative.  The doctors don't know what happened.  Right now they are concerned about her kidneys and liver.  It seems they are treating symptoms as they arise without knowing or attacking the cause.

We might know more in a couple of days.

The Boss is still recovering from her spine surgery so I'm her driver, with a car and a wheelchair.