reymonkey | (no subject)

In the brief and nice news, I am very grateful that we had a new car fall into our laps. Not 'new' new, but it's a '93 and that's a decade newer than what I've been driving. I'm also grateful I was able to sell the old one cheap to somebody who really needed it.
On the other news, my grandmother passed away, I'm not clear if it was last night or this morning. As my aunt put it, this, now, is the easy part. It's been a very long downhill struggle of one crisis after another, and there was not going to be any up from it again. I got to speak to her the last time and she wasn't wholly with it, but she told me she loved me, and I got to tell her the same. That night she slipped into a coma that she never came out of again.
It's... sad, but it's also a release not just for her but for the whole family. This has been a major part of my stress and erratic attention for most of a year. Every time I'd try to start getting things together again, there'd be another crisis and we'd all fly into 'don't make any plans and be ready to jump on a plane' mode again. It's been incredibly hard to live that way, and for so long. This has been going on since last fall. They didn't think she was going to make it through Christmas. On the one hand I really wish she hadn't had to suffer so much and for so long as she did, but I guess she stayed until she got to say her last goodbyes to everyone. They told me that day I talked to her that she'd been having them call a whole lot of people so she could say Hi and that she loved them.

I will be on a plane tomorrow afternoon, and back next Sunday afternoon, so if I don't answer eml or whatever until then that's why, although I may get a chance at internet there, schedule permitting.
Not sure what else to say. Just thanks to everybody who's been patient with me and supportive through this.