Update from the Other Country

I haven’t had time to blog recently, or perhaps have not taken the time.  I’m sitting at my desk right now (except that because this blog deals with professional matters much of the time, I’m rationalizing it!), wishing I could take a day and just stare at the walls.  Well, probably that would not be good for me anyway.

The update from India is this:  The Astronomer’s parents are moving to stay at least temporarily with their daughter, who lives in a city quite far to the south.  The Astronomer has extended his stay in India by a few days to help arrange all this.  My mother-in-law seems much more stable recently, due in great part to getting her medications mostly straightened out.   Lessons learned — stay off of chronic meds as long as you can by using diet, exercise, and other non-drug health management, be VERY CAUTIOUS with psychotropic meds such as sleeping aids, and try your utmost to have competent pharmacists and use doctors who will listen to pharmacists.   Another lesson is that when you become unable to manage medications (and I’m not actually talking about my mother-in-law here), turn the job over to someone who can do it.  This also goes for driving and making financial decisions.  Let go when it’s time.  This, of course, requires cultivating good enough relationships with family or friends so that you have people you trust to turn to when it’s time.

I want to say here, for the blog world to see, how very much I have seen in my husband over this last month.  Certainly I respected and valued him all along, but seeing him rise to the occasions and the emergencies time and time again, on a daily and even hourly and minute-to-minute basis, has made my respect and value for him soar.  It’s a privilege to be his wife.