so where's the updates

Man, there've been a bunch of things I wanted to post about, and things keep getting in the way. I was sick. While I was sick I injured myself. Then after that I nearly broke my wrist and typing was problematic for a while.

And now, well...

SO ABOUT THIS WEEK

My father started chemotherapy this week.

And then my sister, who is in England, had emergency surgery. It turns out the NHS is a trash fire without compare, because despite the *critically necessary* nature of her procedure, they still couldn't even give her a bed to recover in - no, it was, "So who's going to look after you when we send you home immediately?"

The answer, in the short term, was a friend of hers who rearranged his life for a couple of days, and then in the medium term the answer is our mother, who flew out on a day's notice to go to England and take care of her daughter.

My mother is terrified of flying. Terrified. But my father, apart from anything else, started chemotherapy this week.

I feel like my family just caught fire kinda out of nowhere but we're managing and I'm totally not going to panic about any of it. It's all being handled. Just.