Updates: Michael's Surgery, Cheryl's Baby, My Mentality

I thought I'd let everyone know that Michael (my nephew) had open-heart surgery to fix his VSD (ventricular septal defect) on Nov 4th. The surgery went very well and he was able to come home from the hospital a day early (Nov. 9th). He is still healing but is doing very well - smiling again, starting to eat as much as he used to, etc.

In other news, my dad just told me that my stepsister (his wife's daughter) just had a baby 2 weeks ago. Wow! I didn't even know she was pregnant.

Of course, I haven't really been keeping up with people like I should, like I want to. I'm a hermit these days as much as I can get away with it. I think it's mostly due to my hypersomnia, anxiety, and depression. My doctors and I are still working on the magical medical combination to get them under control - as much as that's possible. I at least want to feel like I can function.

Although I do manage to help my sister (technically sister-in-law) take care of my 2 nephews 5 days a week, there is no way I could hold down a normal job - unless I could totally work from home! Anyway, due to fatigue and anxiety I just can't even bring myself to pick up the phone. I totally prefer email!! In fact, everytime the phone rings I cringe, worried that it might be for me! This is quite ridiculous, especially considering Ben & I are still living with his parents and the phone is probably for me less than 1% of the time it rings.

Ah life . . . you can't live with it and you can't live without it.