Weekend Update

hah.. I submitted that last entry at about 11:59. Mr. Hsiao is going to get a chuckle out of that one.

Anyway, it's been quite a while since I've done up a personal entry. What a shame, seeing as I've pretty much abandoned my livejournal for this new fancy schmancy blog.

Life has settled down after those few hectic weeks. Here's a short recap:
-Mom gets sick while she's off on a business trip and hits the emergency room the day she gets home with 8 gallstones stopping up her bile duct. She has them removed, gets a stent put in, is released, and has a couple days of rest. She's told to return in about 30 days to have her gallbladder removed.
-Grandma has a severe aneurysm and is hospitalized for about a week before she is taken off of life support and passes.
-Right after Grandma's services and all that crazy family stuff that goes along with it, mom has to go back to the ER. Her stent is nowhere to be found and she's all backed up with stones again. During a 5 or 6 day stay in the hospital she hasa repeat procedure to remove the stones and her galbladder is is removed. Her surgeon says it's one of the worst he's ever seen, but he didn't have to do general surgery [the big incision that requires a 6-week healing time] and she gets to go home 2 days later.
-Drama goes on with my family and my grandmother's residence. My nino and my aunt have borrowed money [a couple thousand] to take care of my grandma's services and decided to liqiuidate all of my grandma's possessions that they possibly could to help pay off this loan. Another uncle and hiswife kind of raided her house before anyone else did, even though we were all supposed to do it together. My dad also went through her stuff to sell as he is really tight for cash now that he has to make the last few payments on my grandma's car. This is just the tip of the iceberg, really, when it comes to this little bullet point but I could go on for hours and I really don't like to do that.

I think I might start another entry.. we'll call this one an update.