Discharged!

My Dad has been making improvements to his strength and mobility at the nursing home over the past few weeks and it was decided that he could be discharged on July 23rd to return home.

However, being super-anxious to return home and to some semblance of a normal life, he hounded the nursing home staff so much that they released him a few days early.  I was surprised when I learned that he was being discharged yesterday.  This caught my brother and me off-guard and neither of us were able to scramble plans fast-enough to be there before he was transported home.  My brother traveled there this afternoon, and I am packing my bags to go down there in the morning.

It might be cool in a freaky sort of way to have father, mother, brother, and sister together again under the same roof, but I'm not really looking forward to the trip.  Not only will I be far away from my wonderful husband for several days, but I will also be dealing with "geekette withdrawal" without a computer, sharing one bathroom with three other adults, sharing a kitchen with three other adults with vastly different eating habits than my own, plenty of hard work to accomplish, dealing with various issues concerning my parents' continued ability to live by themselves as they get older, and so forth.

As it stands now, I plan to be there until Wednesday of this coming week (the 23rd), then return to Kingsport to go back to work over the weekend. Over the course of the next few weeks, I will go back down there for a few days at the beginning of each week and my brother will go back towards the end of each week.  That way, my parents will have one of us there most of the time to help out with things, which my brother and I both agree is prudent at this point.

So, if you notice that I am not online for a few days each week or fail to get a speedy response to an email, you will know what is happening!  I will still be reachable via cell phone, SMS, MMS, PDQ, and so forth.



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