To pick up where I left off, Friday 2/13 the hospitalist finally called Mom, after Mom called administration and made a stink. Apparently, the information that the nurse couldn't give us was that Dad had Stage 4 Melanoma. We already knew that. And not only did we know that, Mom and I had both told multiple nurses that during update calls. I told...

 This week has been rough. Today was awful. On Monday, mom texted to say she was going to be gone for a couple hours to get her covid vaccine, and asked that I check in on Dad while she was gone. Perry and I went over and hung out for an hour or so before picking up Benson from school. Dad slept most of...

 What an eventful year it was. Our family floated through fairly unscathed - in July I got really sick. Like chills, body aches, loss of taste and smell sick. No congestion, no difficulty breathing, I did have this weird symptom, though, where every time I would breath in, it would burn like it does when you get water up your nose and the...

2017, man. it's been a rough one. a great one, but a rough one. the first half of the year, mat was traveling back and forth between detroit and home. it was ROUGH. i would get the hang of things, get a good routine and get out of the house pretty much every day, which helped. but when mat would get home, my...

technically, benson is 2 years and 9.5 months, but who's paying that close attention anyways. this kid keeps me on my toes more often than not, but let me tell you, he is the sweetest soul on earth. we've been potty training (aka hell) and i've taken a pretty relaxed approach, mostly because mat has been gone and i can't get myself to...