Where I've Been

Well, it's been a wild week.  My father was taken to the emergency room last Sunday with what turned out to be a staph infection, and last Tuesday Andy drove me up to the hospital so I could stay with my mother for a while, but that was the day they did an MRI, discovered the staph infection had caused a spinal abscess, and sent him down here to the care of a neurologist and infectious disease specialist.  So we all ended up back in Boise, and while it's been a VERY long week and we came very close to losing him, my father is actually going to be fine.  It's just going to take a while.  So, life has been put on hold for a bit--or it was until I caught a cold from all the stress and now can't go anywhere NEAR the hospital until I'm not contagious.