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Latest haul from my neighbor (aka my unofficial second grandma): Big bowl of potato/egg salad, lunch meats, a loaf of bread, bag of fruit, box of Hostess Kazbards, some packets of fruit punch mix, and a Danish Kringle (imagine a ring-shaped Danish, but 2/3 the circumference of a car tire).

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Found a Twitter artist by the name of 0kaliz who has just the most precious, adorable, huggable goat girl OC ever!

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My brother's got a 3rd Rock From The Sun DVD playing. These "alien" characters don't act too different from the average 90s sitcom character.

Mom's back home again. She did indeed have blood clots, so she's got medication that will eventually get her leg back to normal.

She's really looking more haggard. Me and my brother treating her well made her look 20 years younger, but the past year has resulted in her looking as old as she actually is. Hate seeing her like this, but there's nothing we can do but tough it out until the end.

Not helping is that I'm wondering what my hospital bill is gonna be. I have insurance, but it's not the best. Will it be a couple hundred? A couple thousand? I have no idea. Taking an ambulance was likely a very bad idea, but there just HAD to be a concert my brother wanted to attend that night, and that bout of queasiness (anxiety?) just HAD to happen shortly after he left. Bad timing has been a plague upon my life.

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Aaaand now my mom's left leg is swelling up, which could be a blood clot, so she's going back to the hospital right after I left.

I hate how right I was about predicting the difficulty of the next two months.

My brother told me a coworker of his went through the same thing as me, down to having pain in the same area. Guess it's just something that's going around. Something that tricks naive chumps like me into thinking it's serious.

I'm back home. The diagnosis was that I have a viral GI bug, which basically causes irritation and swelling of your intestines. This little fucker just HAD to settle down near my appendix and make me think I had something else.

I probably got it from eating out. A distant family member sent us a Doordash card, so me and my brother went out to various places, and one of them probably gave me the infection. Probably the Japanese place that served these damn good rice and meat dishes.

My dad is recommending that I put castor oil and a hot pad on the affected area, which I'll do tomorrow.

No results yet. So tired, but I unfortunately can't sleep in anything that's not a bed. Every time I drift off, I jerk awake. I fucking hate it. Maybe if this thing had a pillow.

At least Spiderman: Far From Home is on TV. Heard nothing but good things about it.

So... I'm in the hospital. And not as a visitor this time.

I've had this pain in my lower right belly for a couple weeks, and signs point to appendicitis. I got real queasy a couple hours ago, so into a an ambulance I went. Got a CAT scan done, so I'm waiting for the results.

Of all the lousy timing. I'm already tired and miserable from this situation with my mom, and I've gotta deal with this shit.

Can't believe 2015 was nine years ago.

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The hospital bed arrived. Holy shit, was it a pain to get this thing inside. I couldn't get a grip on the box, so we had to take it out and hold it by some more handle-like parts. This thing was damn heavy; like 200 pounds.

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Boy, Suicide Squad sounds like it's a complete mess. You know how the Arkham games were subtle and atmospheric? SS is the complete opposite, with a comically cluttered HUD and loads of hyperactive colors and effects flashing on the screen. And you know that four-letter word that starts with a W that CE doesn't like very much? It's that. The male antagonists are all majorly disrespected in their death scenes and biography entries, while the opposite is true for the female antagonist. Harley grabbing Deadshot's ass in a scene is treated as a joke, but you know the journalists would flip their shit if the roles were reversed.

In fact, I found out something interesting. There's this company called Sweet Baby Inc. that gets hired to crowbar in as much political correctness as possible, and their grubby stink is all over this. They've also worked on God of War: Ragnarok (which I liked), and Alan Wake II (which has great review scores), so their involvement isn't a guaranteed touch of death if there's a good director to reign them in, but they're still best avoided. This isn't Rocksteady anymore; just a bunch of talentless hacks wearing their skin.

Thankfully, all is not lost. Rocksteady's co-founders and several of their old talent started up a new company called Hundred Star Games, people in general are becoming more aware of the W word and Sweet Baby, and SS is getting awful player numbers on Steam as people return to Arkham Knight in droves.

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Had a pretty chaotic morning. My mom ordered a medical inflatable mattress because she was uncomfortable sleeping on the couch anymore, and she was so desperate to get it set up that she made me wake my brother up to help set it up at 6am. Was able to catch up on some sleep afterwards, but I'm still mentally exhausted. The mattress helped for now, but she's thinking of ordering a hospital bed.

Stuff like this is why I wish I could skip straight to the end.

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Started playing Evil West after it went on sale a couple months back. It's a beat-em-up in the vein of DMC. It's like a throwback to third-person action games from the early 2010s PS360 era. It's made by the same studio that made the Shadow Warrior reboot trilogy, so there's a healthy balance of fun gameplay and a story that keeps the action moving with occasional moments to breathe. And with a story about a badass cowboy fighting monsters, it's very fertile ground for a good time.

It's pretty well balanced, and I never really felt like my deaths were the game's fault. Well, mostly. The first two levels have some harsh red lighting, and enemies have red/yellow attack indicators, so I took a lot of cheap hits from the enemies blending into the environment. Probably doesn't help that I'm playing on our smaller kitchen TV. Since my mom's settled down in the living room, she's also pretty much completely taken over the TV, and my last two times playing, I only got an hour at most in before she asked to watch. With her weight loss, she doesn't snore anymore, so I never know if she's sleeping or resting her eyes.

Like any game with a big expansive moveset, I have trouble keeping track of all my available options. Just an hour in, I have the gauntlet, revolver, rifle, shotgun, and electric gauntlet. And there's still several more yet.

My mom's been sleeping on the couch since she got back, and the cat has been sleeping on the arm next to her. It's a really sweet sight. For all her indifference, it's like she knows when something is wrong.

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Our neighbor has been making us more stuff lately, probably because she knows about my mom. A couple days ago, she gave us a bag of fruits, three packs of deli meat, and a big bowl of potato salad. Tonight, she gave us 2/3 of a tray of carrot cake. Last week, she made us some cookies and egg custard. She thought my mom could have the custard, but even without the antibiotics, she just can't do desserts.

This Twitter user called onebadnoodle_ made some drawings of what they imagine the parents of Ed, Edd & Eddy look like. They really fit the style of the show, and their traits are cartoony enough to be believable.

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My mom got the play to stop taking her antibiotics, which is what was making her sick so easily. What kind of antibiotics makes the body reject fruit?!

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My brother's using the main TV to play some of the latest Mario Golf online. Holy shit, it looks so boring. I really don't see the appeal, but then I've never been a sports guy. Apparently you have to unlock better clubs, which shouldn't really be a thing in MP mode.

There's gonna be a remaster of Sonic Generations. It'll have Shadow added as a playable character, so it'll be called Sonic x Shadow Generations. This is an absolutely terrible name, because it'll no doubt lead unsuspecting people to pictures of Sonic and Shadow playing tonsil hockey.

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She's feeling a bit better today. A friend of hers is giving her a hair cleaning right now.

Mom's been getting queasy a lot since she got back. Any time of day and any time she eats, she gets sick. She brushes her teeth, the taste of the toothpaste makes her sick. She smells cooked food, she gets sick.

This year is gonna wreck us. I've gotten some nasty circles under my eyes from the stress, lack of sleep, and eye strain from using my tablet and games to try and unwind.

Started playing Terminator: Resistance after Civvie11 gave it a glowing recommendation.

It's a sort of immersive sim FPS where you're encouraged to explore, have a skill tree, and some issues have multiple solutions depending on how you build your character. The early game is rough because you have no skills and outdated weapons, but exploring will get you ammo and materials to spare. You'll definitely wanna put a point into lockpicking so you can get a shotgun from the trunk of a police car. That thing will absolutely save your bacon in the early game.

I don't like that there's skills to boost XP gain. I'd rather just have a decent base XP flow instead of spending skill points to make it better. Also don't like how the pistol reload always has you pull the slide back. From what I know about guns, that should only happen if you reload when it's empty. I guess that's the limited budget showing.

The game is definitely something we need to see more of; a mid-budget game that gets by on quality that's made by a passionate team that loves what they're adapting. Even better, it's heavily inspired by the first two Terminator films, which are widely regarded as the best. Definitely give those two a watch if you haven't yet and ignore anything after that.

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She's finally back home. Now, the true trials begin.

Three days ago, it was snowy. Today, the snow is melted and it's in the high 50s.

Damn, the fog tonight was thick as fuck. Like, humanized Pinkie Pie levels of thicc.

And of course, this is all happening during one of the grayest, rainiest weeks I've ever seen. This has definitely been the least-snowy winter in a while.

They keep finding new reasons to keep her. Not huge, critical things that have to be addressed immediately, but enough to ensure that carrot keeps getting dangled.

Visiting her every day is starting to feel like a job that only pays in mental fatigue.

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Unbelievable... an error in communication led us to believe she was ready to be discharged, and we were all on our way home when they called and said she wasn't, so we had to turn back and have her stay for another night. This was after she went through the effort to dress herself and was feeling so hot that she couldn't stand anyone touching her. Meanwhile, me and my brother hadn't eaten all day, and we we're both exhausted from cleaning the house.

What a fucking day...

We've moved our mom's bed downstairs since climbing stairs is too difficult for her now. We'll be picking her up soon.

Just saw Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, which is currently on Netflix. It's genuinely an incredible movie and worth a watch. It's great to see movies like that being the ones getting all the love and success while Disney's flood of absolute garbage is losing money.

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Yeah, they were definitely talking about hospice. My mom had another operation of some sort and is feeling much better. That at least takes some burden off my mind. Still don't like what we're all going through, though.