A bit of an update: I'm still house/pet sitting for my grandparents, and they're still not certain when they're coming home, but from the sounds of things, my grandma is hopeful for sometime this week. I'm only stopping at the house (and thus, able to post this) because I've got class in the morning and evening today, so I'm spending the interim at my folks' place and hijacking their computer. Turns out the scan revealed no problems with my grandfather's brain or anything collecting there, which was a great relief. However, they had him on morphine for a few days for the pain, and that made him go nutty, getting belligerent and struggling, fighting to take out tubes and lines and try to get out of bed. He wasn't sleeping, and had to be constantly watched so he could be restrained. It was really, really bad, and my poor grandmother is so frazzled and worn - I can hear it in her voice and it makes me worry for her. She's been there the whole time too, when he doesn't sleep, she doesn't, and when he fights, she tries to calm him down. Only recently have they tried changing the pain meds - hopefully they'll be a lot less stimulating than the morphine.

Add to all of that, it seems everyone's getting ill or ending up in the hospital - A good friend in Australia who's been sick as well as had an operation laying him up, my grandparents, (well, technically, first my grandfather's daughter, who was the reason they drove to Washington in the first place, and who has now passed away. The funeral is today, actually,) then my best friend, who had to have surgery to remove a gallstone (as well as her gallbladder) and is now ill (her husband gave her a cold) on top of having an infection at one of the incision sites. Actually, I suppose she's technically the second one, since her problems started before all this and yet, are still continuing today. Then Mr. B, who's in the hospital now with breathing issues... haven't heard about the details, but I have to call my mother, as she went to see him and take him his mail. My stepfather, who's very sick with some particularly nasty variant of the flu, and god knows what and who is next. Oh. And my cat, Rill, who I'm taking to vet on Thursday for a case of what seems to be a respiratory infection which has made her extremely miserable and lose weight so quickly I'm damn alarmed at the difference.

*sighs* There's more I should talk about - school and all, but I have to try and catch up with everything right now. Maybe when my grandparents come home, and so do I. Take care of yourselves, my friends. I don't want to have to add to this list.