Sad news, more sad news and some glad news.

Sad News: I walked in to work this morning, ten minutes late due to driving conditions, to find the entire floor gathered and looking unhappy in the hallway. Some people had coats on and were leaving, others had tear-stained faces, others were saddened, but not cryingly so. Turns out Lynnette, one of my coworkers, just lost her youngest daughter either last night or this morning. Her daughter was 17 years old, and no one knows what happened yet.

Lynnette has no family here at all. She is single, has no significant other and her oldest daughter is in Italy for school right now. Several of the people who were leaving when I got here were going to be with Lynnette - which is good.

Please pray for Lynnette. She needs it so much right now.

More Sad News: Kimberly (my old boss, and the lady I rode in to work with for most of last year) - her dad was taken into the hospital on Monday; her mom found him in their basement, delirious and unable to figure out where he was or how long he'd been there. He has pneumonia. This is on top of his Parkinson's, which is getting very rapidly worse as the weeks go by. He was getting better yesterday, but has had some kind of episode and is now strapped to the hospital bed and telling anybody who will listen that he's being beaten, that he wants to talk to people who don't exist, all sorts of weird things. They have no idea what's going on, and Kimberly is just about beside herself with worry. Please pray for her, too.

And Some Glad News: I have another nephew! Born via C-section at 10:55 Mountain Standard Time last night, Xavier Raymond Gary Bilyk weighed 3 pounds, 13 ounces and was 16 inches long. He's about seven weeks early; he'll be in NICU for a while, but that's to be expected, I suppose. Both mom and baby are doing well, per mom.

More Info.

So from what I understand, Lynnette's daughter had a pulmonary embolism. She came home last night, said she wasn't feeling well, and went to lie down. When Lynnette checked on her later, she was gone. So sad.

Kimberly's dad is back home now; the hospital he was at wasn't giving him the right meds at the right times in the right amounts, which was part of the dementia problems. That hospital is ridiculously incompetent, by most accounts. *sighs*

And my nephew! The doctors say he isn't a SICK baby, only a very SMALL one, which means they may be able to move him to a hospital closer to their home as early as next week! YAY!!