I torpedoed my career to return home and care for my disabled mother. On the eve of her funeral, I learned that the torpedo missed.
The bohemian in me wants to fire a full spread at it.
The practical side likes money and is fully aware that I am incapable of sitting around and doing nothing.
Long sigh
Message ends.
Got back from the funeral home. My mom's cat upstaged me in the obituary which, honestly, gave me the first good laugh I have had in weeks. It's so on-brand for our family.
@variablepulserate That is a compulsion I will never be able to get rid of. Slapping Linux on anything with a processor.
Going from the soul crushing to the slightly annoying, I am being begged to save the company I walked away from to care for my mother full time.
I'm trying to think of a way to answer that request without using expletives.
After being rushed to the hospital via ambulance on December 15th, two emergency surgeries, entering a hospice unit on Thursday evening and succumbing to lung failure at 4:45pm Tuesday afternoon, I have two things to say.
This shift from running a software company to being a semi-retired full-time caregiver has been interesting. I'll say that much. I can feel my stir-crazy straining at the leash though.
Since I am almost never here, I may as well give an update.
I have quit the company and moved back to West Virginia to care, full-time, for my disabled and chronically ill mother. Goodbye savings. But it's worth it.
That said, I am off to the grocery store as dinner will not make itself.
@matigo Life has been busy. To say the least. Still is but I'm now taking time out to make an andouille sausage, jalapeno, egg, onion, cheese, pepper and salsa quesadilla. This will fuel the effort to find a way to slack off for a day.
Off to dice the tomatoes…
// @welcomebot