My aunt had a relapse. Nearly two weeks ago I was phoned by my youngest sister, who sounded like she’d been crying. It must have been around 11:30pm. I knew something had to be going on for her to phone so late. She said they rushed my aunt back to the ER after an apparent seizure which caused a major change in her mental status. I won’t go into details about what happened because it’s a personal, private matter but I will say that we are now all on alert and having to visually check in on my aunt throughout the day. She spent time in the Neuro ICU at ST Joe’s in Savannah. They have now diagnosed her with a Partial Complex Seizure Disorder. Her seizures are not at all like the convulsing ones. Her seizures, so we’re told, do not last long but the state she’s in after (where many would be groggy or sleepy after having a convulsing type seizure) lasts several hours. We could see she was having multiple seizures while we were in her room in the ICU visiting with her.. she was hooked up to an EEG. Anyway. They have increased her medication by 250mgs to see how she does. The medication is causing some jitters for her and I notice that she fidgets/moves a lot more than previously. This, unfortunately, will be something she will deal with for the rest of her life. With any luck though, they’ll be able to get it under control – hopefully.

I feel like I’ve been run ragged. Dramatic I know, but with all of the back and forth checking up on my aunt, helping the family and driving hours at the time.. I am so exhausted. I’m trying desperately to finish up design work and while my request form is still up, I’m not going to take on any new work for about a week so that I can make a big dent in current projects.

I’m also doing this while dealing with my dad, who is going to be having knee replacement surgery soon… AND moving into a new place. Thankfully the new place won’t be ready for a couple of weeks, so that gives me time, hopefully, to do everything I need to do before taking THAT on.

I know I’ve been bad with this updating thing and catching up, I hope you understand why..