Yesterday was a pretty long post but today’s is going to be much shorter. Here are some little things I’d like to mention:

*Fatigue – If you are ever unlucky enough to find yourself in this situation, I can’t stress how much fatigue will come into play. You’re up all hours. There is no real down time. And after a long stretch, it begins to wear on you. My dad and I are both feeling the effects of this. At times, we are walking zombies. I fell asleep twice today sitting in a chair for a few minutes each time. But it is the closest thing to a nap you get.

   This also raises a question I toss out to my friends in the craft out there – How do you keep your energy levels up in a situation like this? I feel drained and focusing is a real struggle. Any advice would be appreciated.

*I’m numb to the mundane. I just could care less about little things I had looked forward too like checking the mail or the sports scores. My dad asked yesterday if I wanted to take a couple hours off tomorrow night to play some poker. I almost always tried to play on Wed. and Thurs.  but I haven’t played since the week before Christmas and frankly I don’t know if I could keep my mind on an entire game. I did watch 5 minutes of the ClubWPT last night on tv but that’s about all the poker I’ve had.

* My mom had a decent day. She was pretty talkative today and we had a couple good discussions. She did tell my dad though this morning that her sister’s birthday (her sister died a few years ago)  was coming up – next week I think -  and that they just might be celebrating it together this year and that would be nice.

I’ll end by totally switching gears here and mentioning a couple stupid bumper stickers I kept seeing on a car in the hospital parking lot when my mom was there. One bumper sticker said Thank You Pres. Bush! which made me wonder if the person had been living under a rock lately. But that sticker was next to one that said Mike Huckabee 2008. That pretty well explained that.