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Things haven't really gotten better. A couple days before Christmas my dad had a major stroke and spent a month in a medical facility. Considering the location of his stroke, he's doing really well but will probably never be the same. My mom spent every day going to the hospital to keep an eye on dad, and I started taking care of their zoo of animals during my already too busy shit days. That worked for about a week and a half, until I got germs from the hospital while visiting dad and had a nasty cold or something that plagued me for 3 weeks. Luckily I got better right before the kids birthday.

Over her birthday weekend, I got a phone call that one of our friends of 25+ years was in hospice and didn't have long to live. Because of all of the kids birthday stuff I didn't get to go see her that weekend, and though I visited her several times she was never lucid while I was there. I sat with her wife and chatted, and tried to offer her comfort since I wasn't able to tell her goodbye. She eventually passed.

I made it through two birthdays and Valentine's day. I ended up missing a mandatory work conference in January, and I had to drop the class I was supposed to take this semester. I no longer have time for things I enjoy, and my life is just full of work and obligations. I had hoped to go to the Heart concert earlier this month, but the kiddo caught influenza a and gave it to me. That was a shitty couple of weeks, and I still have the lingering cough. Avoid this years flu, I haven't had one this bad since I had the flu on new Year's Eve in 2010. Luckily I never received the concert ticket I thought I was going to get, and because I'm dysfunctional and don't prioritize buying things for myself I didn't buy a ticket. I wouldn't have been able to go anyway because of the flu. Maybe shit all works out in the end, who knows.

More likely than not it seems that like just keeps fucking you until you die. That's honestly probably more like it. 🤷🏻‍♀️