Archive for October, 2009

BATTLEGROUNDS!

Wow just became fun again and less of a chore.  Ed (AKA Theshat) and I have discovered battlegrounds.  Until Monday night, I had never stepped foot into a battleground.  As it turns out, we needed to get some PvP honor kills for an achievement for Hallow’s End, so we decided the fastest way to rack it up is to go into a BG.  Testing the waters, we went into Warsong Gulch, a simple Capture The Flag type.  Well we lost that first battle, but we decided to go in a second time, and that time we won.  We started getting hooked.  I needed to go into some BG’s for my final cooking achievement, so we went into several more, and won all of those.

Tonight, we went in again, and didn’t do so well.  We lost all of the battles, but we still got a lot of honor kills, and honor points.  I went back in tonight for a while.  I never got much into PvP before until now, but now I’m hooked on BG.    Granted, you win some, you lose some, but it’s still fun to pwn someone’s face.

FOR THE HORDE!

She’s home

Well, the doctor at the hospital decided to send her home instead of keeping her longer.  We’ll see how things go here.  She’s not in any immediate danger, but her mental state is pretty well agitated.

My wife’s in the hospital

I don’t often talk about my personal life, but tonight a lot happened.

My wife Kathy has dementia.  She has it really bad.  Tonight, she had a major seizure and wound up in the hospital.  At the hospital she had another seizure.  At the moment, she’s unable to talk or respond to anyone.  She had to be restrained to the bed because she would try to pull at her EKG wires and also might try to get up and walk away.  Not a good idea right now.

Tonight a difficult decision had to be made.  It came to the point that I realized my grandfather and I can no longer give her the care she needs.  The nurse and doctor at the ER also agreed with this assesment.  For the last couple of months, I have been unable to get her to take a bath or shower.  Believe me, I’ve tried, but trying to get her to take a shower lately has been an exercise in futility.  She is extremely underweight, even though she does eat.  I don’t know why she can’t seem to put on weight.  Because of these factors, the hospital admitted her under “failure to thrive”.  She most likely will never come home again.  She will be in the hospital’s care until we can get her into a nursing home.  She needs 24 hour care at this point, and we just can’t do it any longer ourselves.

The main problem is, the only income we have is her social security and grandpa’s social security.  I haven’t worked because I’ve been having to be home with her most of the time.  We’re hoping social services can do something to help.

I don’t know what else to say really, so I’ll end this post here.