Hiya folks. I thought my last journal post here was be swinging back into action. Instead it almost seems I exasperated the condition. Because apparently the colon cancer was not satisfied being the only problem.

So here's the run down to catch everyone up to speed.
-Mom is hospitalized for super hyper Australian flu.
-Colon cancer is discover.
--Cancer is removed, healing process begins.
Colon basically tears itself back open flooding mom's system with infection for two days before anyone's realized what's happened and she's rushed back into surgery.
-Digestive system is bypassed with an ilistomy rig.
-Infection continues to contaminate her system as various kinds of bacterial flora set up shop and MRSA infection stops in for the party too .
-Extreme white blood cell count and infection keep her barely coherent of reality for two weeks.
-By the beginning of March, she finally started to bounce back, though basically looking skeletal and suffering from near complete muscle atrophy due to not being able to eat or drink anything the entire time (everything had to be administered via IV).
-Healing process rebegins and she's sent to a physical rehab center that Dad and I quickly realize is a nursing home for the terminally ill and the disposed elderly that moonlights as physical rehab.
-The Rehab people told her she'd probably be there two to three weeks. She looked the admin straight in the eyes and said "Fuck that, I'm going home by Friday (which would've made her entire stay last 5 days.)
-She worked her ass off and came home in seven days.

Of course, that wasn't the end. She came home about mid-March and she's just now finally reattaining her former levels of strength. But the surgical area is still healing, the iliostomy bag continues to be present until it's time to go in and reconnect things, She's still a little uneasy on her feet, and she's still looking at having to go through chemo and another surgery to reconnect the digestive system and remove apparent tumor debris that still needs removal. And she still ended up back in the hospital for another week long stay near the end of March due to a cataclysmic blood pressure drop brought on by two different doctors prescribing things that reacted badly together.

So. Uh. Yeah. That's been my past couple of months. How have you guys been? Again, sorry for the radio silence. It's been all I can do just to help Dad keep her taken care and keep up the domestic side of things.
I've gotten some work done, which will be going up soon, but no where even close to the amount that should be done. So, I don't know what to say really.

I've scaled back my own work on Voodoo Walrus to further lean full tilt into getting old commissions done and try to bring new ones in since money is starting to get more than a little tight in all of this.

Just doing the best I can despite everything generally seeming completely overwhelming.