"Human beings are discourse. The rest is blood and bones and nerves." - Rumi
Bad news: My mom is in hospital. As a few of you know, she's been laid up for a couple of months with a nasty foot infection. Well, it got worse, and she went into the hospital yesterday. She's in the OR on Thursday for them to "clean it out." I, frankly, am terrified of what "cleaning it out" might turn into. When one's foot has been infected literally for months, I think it's conceivable that the doctors may want to remove it if they feel it's a great enough health risk. And honestly, she's been running a fever; it's possible that the infection is spreading. Not that I know anything for sure, as I'm not there and therefore have no information because no one tells me jackshit, and I'm not exactly a doctor anyways. I'm just paranoid and restive, because I can't bear the thought of my mom having to go through that and I can't do anything to help her.

I'm hoping to get to Naples this weekend to see her. *crosses fingers* I mean, the most I can do is to go and sit with her and talk and hug her. I feel especially bad because I'm only ever really in Naples over winter breaks, and I know she misses me.

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Extremely mundane things: my shuffling is improving (bridge is pretty much down now). Only lost five cents at poker last night (out of a five dollar buy-in) and would've made a meager amount of money if I'd cashed out when I planned to instead if staying in a few more hands. Also, have a list of things to do:

-whites laundry
-pick up book from library
-finish all the books I'm reading now
-bake
-kanjikanji
-go through papers
-clean

I think I'm going to do something completely out of the blue. Here goes.