No video this Friday

Spring break has translated into much turmoil here. We had phone calls in the middle of the night about my aunt’s mom only having hours to live. My uncle is having more bad days than good ones in his early stages of dementia. My daughter’s classmate got her scans and test results back and it turns out she’s got a cancerous tumor on her brain stem and they are waiting for x-rays to come back to see if she also has lung cancer. My cousin has gone to the hospital and gotten shots repeatedly to stop labor because her baby is way too early but she’s already dilated and keeps having contractions. Another cousin’s efforts to adopt a little boy away from a wicked witch (who tells him constantly how much she hates him and hurts him just enough to not leave marks) has fallen through because the mother realized she won’t get any government coin if she signs the papers. Another aunt is awaiting results today to find out if her cancer is back.
That’s pretty much the speed version and non-inclusive of *all* the drama going on.
It’s making us all irritable and short with each other which sucks. You know the saying: “You take it out most on the ones you love best” or something like that.