We’ve been discussing how to make sure we’re taking care of his mom. If there’s one thing to come out of this, it’s the reminder that I love her so much—she really is my 2nd mom—and I want to spend more time w/ her. She cut my umbilical cord and did so much to shape me into who I am since then.

If nothing else… you can always DM your amlk thoughts 👏

I keep going back to our last conversation, which was about Undertale and Deltarune. We had both played Undertale, but I told him I actually liked Deltarune more. He said he was waiting until all the chapters came out. It sounds stupid, but I’m destroyed I’ll never get to follow up on that.

Thanks Caroline. I think I’m mostly afraid of bearing witness to her pain. He’s her only child, & she was with him when it happened. She tried to save him w/ CPR. There’s just something so viscerally horrifying about it; it’s difficult to articulate, other than no parent should have to bury a child.

There’s really no point to this thread other than, I guess, a reminder that tomorrow isn’t promised, and if you and a loved one talk aspirationally about going to see a play or go to Disneyland, you should just do it rather than assume you have all the time in the world to make those plans happen.

My sister and I talked on the phone for a while and didn’t do much other than bawl together. We’re worried for his mom, who was and is like a second mom to us. Neither of us have spoken with her yet, and I’m afraid to.

We talked about going to see a play soon. We lost it watching silly out-of-context Kingdom Hearts clips. We tossed around the idea of going to Disneyland together again since our families did it together so often when we were kids. He played a song on the piano for us.

He’s an organ donor, and the hospital is planning an honor walk early next week. I’m taking off work to attend, but I don’t even know how I’ll handle it. It hasn’t fully sunk in yet; it doesn’t feel real. My sister and I just saw him not that long ago; he met my niece for the first time.

The moment, and I mean, the MOMENT I pull a shirt over my head, he jumps for it and tries to play tug. That actually goes for any article of clothing I own.

I got my flu shot yesterday (Covid shot was last week), and I’m laid up in bed too 😔

And they still managed to be top-tier characters 👏

I could go get In-N-Out today if I wanted :)