Good news and bad news
Dec. 31st, 2017 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lillilahIt is New Year's Eve, and we are preparing to go out with friends. We aren't exactly sure where, but we'll play board games and have a good time. Also, my credit card is working again. Yay! I got another very enthusiastic review of my Mass Effect story. Yay! My stomach doesn't hurt, and I'm not as anxious as I have been. Yay! That the good news.
The bad news is that my dad has bladder cancer, although it sounds like it maybe isn't so dire, as they aren't rushing to surgery immediately. On the other hand, this is through the VA, so it could be dire, and they are just slow. A good friend of mine has a spot on her liver that is cancer, and another friend of mine who has already had both breasts removed because of cancer is having complications. This, of course, is bad news about other people. And while I am a kind of distant person in many ways, it is still painful for me that those I care about are suffering. I don't really have a lot of tools to deal with this kind of trauma, as I spend all my points dealing with my illnesses. I'll probably be spending more time than usual trying to figure out how I feel about all of this and what, if anything, I should do. I have tentative plans in my head for going to the US to see my dad in May, but I'm going to get a new passport in about a month, and the process of getting all my stamps, signatures, and the visa is a long one. Also, my dad has plans to go sailing with friends, so if he isn't super sick, then May might not work for him anyway. So, mainly, I can wait, I suppose, and not deal with any of these emotions now, as everything might be resolved in a month or two.
The bad news is that my dad has bladder cancer, although it sounds like it maybe isn't so dire, as they aren't rushing to surgery immediately. On the other hand, this is through the VA, so it could be dire, and they are just slow. A good friend of mine has a spot on her liver that is cancer, and another friend of mine who has already had both breasts removed because of cancer is having complications. This, of course, is bad news about other people. And while I am a kind of distant person in many ways, it is still painful for me that those I care about are suffering. I don't really have a lot of tools to deal with this kind of trauma, as I spend all my points dealing with my illnesses. I'll probably be spending more time than usual trying to figure out how I feel about all of this and what, if anything, I should do. I have tentative plans in my head for going to the US to see my dad in May, but I'm going to get a new passport in about a month, and the process of getting all my stamps, signatures, and the visa is a long one. Also, my dad has plans to go sailing with friends, so if he isn't super sick, then May might not work for him anyway. So, mainly, I can wait, I suppose, and not deal with any of these emotions now, as everything might be resolved in a month or two.
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Date: 2018-01-01 08:50 pm (UTC)Sorry things are rough right now. I hope your father — and everyone else — ends up okay.
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Date: 2018-01-02 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-02 06:50 pm (UTC)