emails emails emails...
my aunt is out of the hospital, and with kids checking on her daily, has managed to keep her blood sugar levels < 100. (they were 250 when she went in the hospital for kidney stones, and the docs found all the other crap wrong with her). According to my uncle she's got heart and liver problems, and many other ailments from not taking care of herself.
the grandmother is doing the same as she was a week ago, only now with added mouth infection. the antibiotics are keeping her "comfortable". it's probably just a matter of a week or two.
on the good news side of things, my mom emailed me with some extended family news: my second cousin Kim was in the Iditarod this year. (apparently he may have participated in past years, too). His dad did a website for him: k2racing.org. Kind of interesting. He's a real outdoorsy guy -- climbing Denalii several times, etc.