Let's see... It was a busy week. Dad got discharged late on Wednesday night and has been home now recuperating as best he can. His 1 new med for the presumed fungal infection (mold) in his lungs is $974 (nine hundred seventy four dollars, no typo) AFTER insurance. The doc said he would be on it a long time... that price was for a 30 day supply. That's just nuts.
We go back to the doc on Tuesday to see first the infectious disease doc and then the pulmonologist. Hopefully there is news of some sort. Just news would be good.
As for my life, I'm slowly coming back down to earth. My 2 papers are written and submitted. I have an enormous final on Dec 11. Three hours of time permitted in a proctored setting. I have no clue what the material is anymore. I think the crisis of my dad's health erased my memory because every bit of it is foreign to me now. I no longer remember the formulas or how to do what on the graphing calculator. So tomorrow I am going to my office to hole up away from society. If I can get in 8 hours of rock hard study... and then maybe another 4 hours Monday.... and continue with 2 hours or so each night... then a full day on Friday. Hopefully I can pull a C out of the magician's hat. That's all I need to get this class done. But but but.... the last time I had a test I'd been up all night with dad in ICU so who knows if he'll make it through this week healthy or not. It's a precarious situation but I'll just have to plug on ahead.
The rest of my sloppy joe today involves my almost grown kids. Well, I guess they are grown. Derek and Gaby have been here since yesterday and will go back to OKC in the morning (just in time for me to go study). Jill has been helping Adam readjust to life post-Afghanistan and get settled in his apartment. He'll find out next week if he gets into my university. Hopefully he can get a few semesters completed before he gets sent off to a war again. Poor guy is 24 but has been able to get any more than 1 semester of college completed because he's been sent to Iraq and then back to stateside and then to Afghanistan. Maybe this time his luck will be better. Not that he wasn't lucky -- not a single casualty in his unit. But the interruption to his education is the most frustrating for him.
The light in my tunnel (not at the end) is the trip we're planning for students next May. Working at a dig site in Peru gives me plenty of more interesting busy work when I feel like I'm at the end of my rope. In fact, just sitting here now I can say -- wow, I'll have another semester behind my in this doctoral program by the time May rolls around. And Jill is going with me. Even her bf Adam may apply to go since the course is approved for his major.
And so it goes... another day lived quite fully. I'm tired and out of hangers. So no ironing tonight for me!
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