let the sunshine in

hey everybody! i come to you on a beautiful day with the sun shining brightly outside and i am determined to enjoy it!

it looks like we will be taking my dad home on thursday and will be having a hospice nurse visit him and teach us all how to take care of him. she will come several days a week to check on him, as well as an aide and other hospice services. my dad is much more lucid and feisty today and that is a great thing- but we are told to expect "good days and bad days" as part of his condition.

end-stage liver failure is not a lovely prognosis, i agree. coordinating the calendar to ensure his round-the-clock care for the rest of his life (not sure if that is a few months or a lot of months) will also not be easy. but if it means that my dad gets to go home and live in his house and do a few things for himself on good days, i will do my best to be grateful for that.

let's just call it "early retirement".

i'll update again soon.