So... Everything irl with me has been getting really down the last week or so. Nothing directly with me, but more my extended family.

Early last week my step-dad's ex-wife *they were together for almost 30 years and separated on good terms and were still sorta friends, and had 3 kids together* was diagnosed with stage 4, inoperable, terminal cancer *I'm not sure what kind*. She'd been given 1 to 4 months possibly, however, I think it was thursday she ended up slipping in the shower and didn't pull through. We want to think it was an accident, but she'd always ALWASY been a strong woman, and there's high suspicion in the family that she didn't want to waste away, or make everyone else suffer through the last few months and it may have been suicide. The funeral was on saturday. I wasn't really informed about any of this *I no longer live with my family, so news gets to me kinda slow when it's a lot of things going on at once* until thursday night, and I wasn't able to make it to the funeral. Sunday, though, things got worse for my stepdad. His half/step? brothers mother (crazy big extended family. they were all super close, but I didn't know many of them very well, but I knew her), a sweet old lady with a beautiful fiery personality, who had been in slow decline for the last 10 years or so, had a massive stroke following the funeral. Last update I'd gotten, she has been in the intensive care unit since sunday night, and doctors are monitoring what appeared to be a large blood clot that's been slowly working it's way towards her brain. The stroke itself left her entire left side paralized, and at more than 90 years old, they were amazed she survived it at all. She's hanging on right now, but barely, and the doctors don't think she's going to make it much longer. It's good that family was still in town from the weekend, and many have extended their time here just in case, but the last 5 days have been... I don't even know what to call it.

I'm sorry for any delays.