I'm going to retire on the hatred in man's heart.

[Berunda]

Paducah, Ky had better prepare for a massive influx of PMAs

[Moetown]

I feel bad for the crappity members having to watch their dads go through this shit. I'm honestly grateful to the forces of the universe that my dad checked out so quickly (massive stroke - reportedly dead before he hit the ground). If anything is hereditary, I hope that kind of death is. Hopefully I'll make it past 64. Anyway, love and PMAs to ya'll.

[Bizarro]

The doctors still have no clue on the underlying problem/s, but the only symptom currently threatening his life is viral bronchitis. They're going to treat him, release him in the morning, and send him to an ENT. We're hanging back for now.

I should be relieved but I'm pissed. No closer to figuring out what the real problem is, but it's enough of a recovery that I can't argue when they tell me they'd rather I not come down yet. I feel powerless and pissed off and still worried that something mysterious is killing my dad while different groups of doctors take turns filing the same tests.

[Moetown]

If there were really such a thing as reincarnation, I'd like to come back as a super hott hermaphrodite with fully functional parts.

[Moetown]

Though periods would suck, and I'd probably end up getting knocked up before I was 15.

[Bizarro]

It's a hellish cycle: my dad gets sick, they patch him back up, returning him to maybe 80% the level of health he was at before the episode, then send him home; then, after a couple of weeks, he gets sick again, and they then return him to 80% of the 80% he was before. And so on. He's maybe 30% of what he should be right now, in terms of health.

[Just Some Girl]

All my best PMAs heading your way, Jeff. I think it'll mean a lot that you can be there with your dad. Thinking of ya...

[Just Some Girl]

I should be relieved but I'm pissed. No closer to figuring out what the real problem is, but it's enough of a recovery that I can't argue when they tell me they'd rather I not come down yet. I feel powerless and pissed off and still worried that something mysterious is killing my dad while different groups of doctors take turns filing the same tests.

I feel the same way: Scared/worried, angry that they can't figure this shit out (years of science and we still get no answers...argh), frustrated, vulnerable, powerless, majorly depressed (which makes me withdraw when I shouldn't), all of it. I feel for you so much and for your family. Stay strong and hang in there, trite as that might sound.

The cyclical nature of what your dad's going through sounds all too familiar, too. I'm just so very sorry...