Posts tagged Joe

I felt had to wait until this went public before I could say anything but Evo’s post is the coolest thing ever. I’m really glad I get to be associated with these people in even the smallest way.

I made this avatar of Joe today from a picture taken at last year’s Draco Vista pool party.

Other stuff

Mar 23rd

busyme and rodeomom have posts that remind me I need to brag about my kid too. So here’s Ginnie’s latest grades:

C – Spanish III
B – Culinary Arts
B – Biology
B – Principles of English
B – Geometry

Went up to see Joe this morning and his Dad and Aunt were there so I didn’t stay long. Actually Joe asked us all to leave as he’d had a conversation with his doctor just before I got there and he wanted to be alone. I plan on stopping by again tomorrow before I go to Draco Vista for the podcasts.

I can’t sit around this house all day with Buck, so I’m planning a full day.

I finally managed to test all these OhMiBod contest submissions and boy are my arms tired.

ginnie, Joe

I'm back

Mar 22nd

Joe slept most of the time I was there. He has to choose between throwing up every 3 minutes or medicating himself enough to stop that, which puts him to sleep. Dammit. I plan on going up tomorrow morning to sit with him again. We just don’t want him to be alone and Lorrie appreciates me taking a couple of mornings.

Now that Max is gone I pretty much have the time to, it’s just that 37 mile one-way in morning traffic ugh.

(George Hrab is talking about churches and sculptures of Jesus and why we never see Jesus on the cross naked as he was supposed to be and the poor sculptors opting out of depicting the size of his . . .)

Weather: T-Storms

66°F

Mar 22nd

Even though the sky is nasty, dark and dreary, as soon as most of the traffic clears up I’m going up to visit Joe. I’m told he’s sinking fast. He’s in hospice because he just couldn’t keep anything down staying at Mike’s. He needs meds he can’t get without nursing and . . . he’s just more comfortable with full-time care at the moment. I don’t think there’s going to be any reprieves. So I’m not waiting for the weekend to go spend time with him.

The call is out for prayers to your deity of choice, not expecting any real miracles, just for less pain, and that Joe can be as comfortable as possible under the circumstances. I know most of my LJ friends have no idea who Joe is, just believe me when I say he’s one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. This one is truly unfair. Why is it Cancer never seems to hit evil people instead?

I’ll post my impressions after I see him.

Time flied!

Mar 8th

At some point between when I left this morning to go up and spend time with Joe in the hospital (which he completely slept through BTW) and the time I came home, the HOA landscape maintenance guys cut EVERY bush in front of my house down to the nub. My house is nekked. So now I’m pretty sure we gonna have to put the trash and recycle cans behind the fence. They used to sit politely between the bushes and you couldn’t see them from the street. Crap. What a PITA.

Max called this morning THIS MORNING to tell me he was finally in the US, in Atlanta and heading to Huntington to ~~impress~~ ~~charm~~ try not to alienate his girlfriend’s family. Damn, that was a long trip for him.

No, I haven’t brought up the subject with Buck. Let him stew for a while because I haven’t blown my top. Keep him on his toes. You know, if he was just getting his flirt on, ain’t no big deal. There’s no way he’s got time for anything much more than that. Maybe I’ll just say something snide about wrapping that rascal.

buck, Joe, max

Ah, Joe

Mar 4th

Wow, last weekend he was a little thinner, in good spirits but tired. He hung with us for part of the day but mostly sacked out in a quiet corner.

Yesterday was bad. I couldn’t believe the change in just a week. The weight is just melting (and not in a good way) off and he was listless. He didn’t seem to want people around, and its difficult to walk that fine line between being companionable and hovering. After all the recordings some of us hung out for a while and by late afternoon/evening Michael and Lorrie were pretty worried because Joe hadn’t kept anything down in a couple of days. So they took him up to the hospital to see if they could get some fluids into him and maybe get something to kill the nausea.

So Kris took Tee and me to get everyone some dinner and then we hung out until M&L got back from the hospital after they admitted Joe. I don’t want to post much more than that. Mason Rocket, Randy Innuendo, Joe Murphy, I don’t know if this is just a bad patch or a sign of the way things are going to be from now on. Everyone else seems to have experience with this sort of thing/disease/cancer, but I don’t.

I’m just going to plan more time up there and try to ride just this side of that companionable vs. hovering line.

hellziggy said it.

Jan 26th

Seriously. Fucking cancer.

I’ve been doing a lot of crying behind his back and trying to be all nonchalant (which seems to be what he prefers) to his face. I stick to practical matters like suggesting he take earplugs to the hospital so he can actually sleep through the noise. But last week’s update about the type of cancer really deflated him. So we’ll keep the emotion down and the humor up and do the best we can to be supportive.

Maybe I’ll record some porn with a donald duck voice. Or break down and learn one of those card games they’re all so fond of so I can go over and keep him company when he’s recuperating at Mike’s.

Just keep swimming – he actually says that a lot.

Thinking about Joe

Jan 26th

His surgery is today. I know a couple of my friends are down there (Tucson) in the waiting room oozing positive energy. The rest of us are waiting for news.

I really shouldn’t have watched that damned Grey’s Anatomy recording last night. Hits too close to home, dammit.

Well shit, Evo

Jan 20th

You know what else pisses me off?

*pressure pressure pressure*

Fucker.

Now I feel the need to be all the more interesting and crap.

So today at the recording for Wingin’ It, Evo decides to make this LJ a topic for discussion. Welcome to anyone who checks it out. Be aware that I tend to overshare. K?

Joe, podcast

Podcasting

Jan 14th