My aunt’s in the hospital

I only have one aunt: my mom’s younger sister.  She had a heart attack on Saturday; the doctors think one of her older stints needs to be replaced because some blockage has grown around it.  She had pain this whole weekend and is on morphine for it.  She’s scheduled to have her procedure this morning; [...]

My stepfather

I talked with Ralph yesterday.  I had spent some time getting facts together to settle the issues that had cropped up.  John was away this weekend and didn’t want to go with me when I did this, so I figured it was a good time.  I’d like to say I wasn’t nervous or uncomfortable, but [...]