Pours

My grandmother was experiencing depression so severe that she requested (and received) admission to a psychiatric hospital this past weekend. She's doing a lot better and has people helping her, befriending her, and providing her with the emotional support she's been lacking for the last several months. Mom says she'd recommended this after grandma admitted that she couldn't do it, but had been thinking about suicide-- calling 911 to help get there, since the insurance company was yanking her chain, making her go to several other doctors to get referrals instead of letting her get psychiatric care and group therapy.

Additionally, my dad revealed that he's been having heart palpitations, even though he's thin as a rail, quit drinking entirely years ago after never being a heavy drinker, quit caffeinated drinks recently and has been eating very carefully. He's seeing a cardiologist Friday.

I'm seeing a doctor Thursday, since I might have a thyroid condition and that could lead to the same high blood pressure problems my two aunts on my dad's side of the family have.

And I haven't really heard from my brother since he started his new second job, but I gather he's kinda miserable. I know he's completely against moving back down here-- the weather alone makes him not want to, and I think it might be more than that. Anyway

We're watching Robocop, and I'm trying not to think about all of it too much. I did receive the page of Sorcery 101's original art that I bought in the mail. My highlight of the week is planning my budget around the possibility of buying a frame for it so I can hang it up on the wall. Well, that, and my grocery store sells steel-cut oats now, so I'm going to try having that for breakfast. If I like it, that's my new breakfast for the long term, since it's supposed to be good for your heart, and would help preserve my fruit supply for lunch and dinner, instead of it all going into breakfast.