Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: October 2022

  • Good Things: the DEA

    So there have been a number of instances of serendipity. We were in the hospital wondering how to get Dave home by the time the medical supplies wee coming when two of his friends walked in. He was lying on the bathroom floor insisting that he did not want the fire department to come by…

  • A Brief Interlude for the Very Bad Thing

    Dave went home and had one good day in which he was slightly lucid and could talk to his friends who came out en masse and cleaned his house. For four days I slept on the couch next to the hospital bed in the living room and neither of us got more than two hours…

  • Good Things: Medical Marijuana

    When New Mexico legalized medical marijuana, Dave really leaned in to it. The people at the local Pure Leaf know him well. So then this week he discovered that he might be in pain and not be able to drive to get his pot (or “cannabis,” as everyone corrects me). He could send me to…

  • Good Things: Breaking Bad References

    As most know, Breaking Bad was set in Albuquerque. I left the house to do battle with CVS (which believe me I will detail if I ever get to a ‘Bad Things” series.) Dave thought I was still there. I made some noise coming in and he yelled “COLLEEN AREN’T YOU GOING TO SEE WHO’S…

  • Good Things: Crazy, Ex-Girlfriend

    Dave’s liver disease and the drugs are all affecting his perceptions. At least I hope those are the reasons why he is confusing me with one of his least favorite girlfriends, Colleen. (Not Colleen’s fault.) I first noticed when he said, “Come over here, babe.” That was followed by “How’s it going sweetie?” That was…

  • Good Things; No Terror on the Ground

    Dave has, as you know, a pit bull and a blue heeler. I don’t know these dogs, they don’t know me. There were many scenarios in which I would have to enter the house without Dave and they would, I assume, kill me. It turned out that didn’t happen. Dave was here, so it was…

  • Good Things: No Terror at 30,000 Feet

    The options for getting to Albuquerque are fly or drive. It’s an 18 hour drive or an 18 hour flight — only I don’t want to share a plane or an airport with the BQ variant. There are shorter flights, those would be ideal. And there’s first class, that would be ideal too. As I…

  • Good Things / Bad Things

    Given two choices I try to list the pros and cons and make my decision that way. Gary decides based entirely on the cons. So anytime I make a decision Gary thinks he’s helping by telling me all the negatives. So there’s lot of “YOU PICKED CHOICE A? BUT WHAT ABOUT –” followed by all…

  • Brutal

    This will be my third hospice. Each time I find myself saying something brutal. He had part of his stomach removed plus he’s very nauseated, so this time it was, “Will he starve to death?” Brutal even by my standards.

  • Hospice

    So, I’m going to my brother’s house in New Mexico to … I almost typed “to spend hospice with him,” like it was a family holiday. Earlier today I used the term “to steer his hospice,” which sounds threatening. His cancer was very fast, and unexpected. A week ago the doctors saw infection on a…