Quiet day. Karen comfortable most of it. Lorraine showed up and we changed lines so K would have a nice, clean weekend for herself. Paula and June came over. Then Lori. I think Dot was here too.

Brother may need pacemaker. More tests being performed. He should be home tomorrow. They say they can beat his Lyme's and heart is of more concern. It's all getting so dicey for him. It's all been severe. Nothing "casual" has happened to him. All the injuries and conditions are some really heavy duty stuff: heart, brain, shoulder, leg, ankle, stents, bypasses. That's just a few.

A thousand factors are racing near the speed of light toward a common point. My own personal LHD.

I know I can't be constructing the universe as I go along because I would never create one in which my mother is 91; my brother is in terrible condition; my wife is dying in the next room with brain cancer. This is not a universe I would wish on anybody.

It is unexpected to me that so many would be such sources of strength in this time. Everybody is burdened with their own problems yet they somehow find time to ease our lives, too.