Another weird start to the New Year.<\/p>\n
Just like in 2015, this New Year\u2019s Day I received a call that a close relative was experiencing some serious health issues. While last year I had a day to prepare to travel, this time it required me to pack a bag and get in the car immediately. I spent the weekend mostly sitting in hospital rooms with the relative, returning home late last night.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t want to share too many details, but I can say that in general, things are looking better. As I drove Friday night, the situation appeared rather serious. It has improved, but we\u2019re still waiting on results from a series of tests that were done yesterday to try to figure out exactly what the problems are, what is causing them, and how to move forward.<\/p>\n
It was a scary, confusing, and sobering weekend. My relative has been very proactive about making plans for ensuring that health care and legal decisions would be squared away should there be a time where they couldn\u2019t make those on their own. All those responsibilities fall on me in this case. I admit I was very aware of the weight of that role this weekend.<\/p>\n
For the moment it appears we\u2019ve dodged another bullet. But there remains a lot of uncertainty about the future, both short- and long-term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Another weird start to the New Year. Just like in 2015, this New Year\u2019s Day I received a call that a close relative was experiencing some serious health issues. While last year I had a day to prepare to travel, this time it required me to pack a bag and get in the car immediately. I spent the weekend mostly sitting in hospital rooms with the relative, returning home late last night. I don\u2019t want to share too many details, but I can say that in general, things are looking better. As I drove Friday night, the situation appeared rather serious. It has improved, but we\u2019re still waiting on results from a series of tests that were done yesterday to try to figure out exactly what the problems are, what is causing them, and how to move forward. It was a scary, confusing, and sobering weekend. My relative has been very proactive about making plans for ensuring that health care and legal decisions would be squared away should there be a time where they couldn\u2019t make those on their own. All those responsibilities fall on me in this case. I admit I was very aware of the weight of that role this weekend. For the moment it appears we\u2019ve dodged another bullet. But there remains a lot of uncertainty about the future, both short- and long-term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-5661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-personal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13896,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions\/13896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}