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Apr. 13th, 2018 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI have, in fact, kept Cordelia home today. She's in that annoying stage of recovery when she has enough energy to want to do things without having enough to actually do them. She half wanted to go to school and half agreed with me that it would be a bad idea. The idea of trying to make up a full week of work is daunting. She has a friend who is in four of her five classes, but that friend is very difficult to reach except via (I think) Snapchat and may not check in there for days at a time. Phone calls, texts, and emails don't work.
My sister called last night to tell me that she and our mother think that all three of us have some form of Ehlers-Danlos. Which... It's possible? I'm generally dubious about them deciding that I have various conditions because their reasoning in the past has been based on things like my sister deciding that all of my friends must be on the autism spectrum because 'they never talk about things that interest me!' which is a profoundly weird thing to say about any group of people.
At least, in this case, they're looking at things going on in their own bodies. Having the condition would explain the issues my sister has had with her breast reconstruction (her plastic surgeon has never seen anything like it in terms of scarring and tearing and just generally not doing what it's supposed to) and the fact that she had to stop playing soccer in high school because her femur would pop in and out of joint (it was the mid-80s. The doctor she saw said she was lying about it).
My sister says that the main thing is that, if I do have it, then the odds that Cordelia might are high enough that we should look into it for her so that she can take precautions.
I missed calling my grandmother for her birthday yesterday because I lost track of the date. This week has been weird because of having Cordelia home. I keep thinking that it's a different day of the week than it is. Today is my half-sister's birthday. Tomorrow is our father's birthday.
My sister complained that she can't ever reach Grandma because of the upheaval in that bit of the family. Grandma lives with my uncle and his wife, but they've been staying with my aunt's sister for months because my uncle needs to be close enough to a particular hospital to get there immediately if he matches for a lung transplant. Grandma is not with them. Last fall, our youngest cousin who is 18, moved back in (I don't know if she's still taking classes, but she came back from college) to stay with Grandma, but that wasn't expected to be long term. At that point, the doctors were saying that my uncle would never leave the hospital again.
If my youngest cousin has gone back to school, Grandma might be staying with one of my other cousins. One is married, and I think his wife is still staying at home with their young kids. The other cousin is divorced and works a very time consuming job, so I don't know that he could give Grandma what she needs which is basically just someone there to make sure she's okay if she falls and that she has food.
Grandma's 94 and mentally sharp but very tired and frail and nearly blind. My uncle converted space in his house into an apartment for her with a walk-in shower and everything else she needed. The thing is that she doesn't answer the phone, and our youngest cousin tends to hang up on people whose voices she doesn't recognize.
I think I just need to email my older two cousins. They will know what's going on. I'm pretty sure that the one with the time consuming job is managing all of the details because that's part of his personality. I'm also pretty sure that nobody wants the youngest cousin putting her life on hold indefinitely.
My sister called last night to tell me that she and our mother think that all three of us have some form of Ehlers-Danlos. Which... It's possible? I'm generally dubious about them deciding that I have various conditions because their reasoning in the past has been based on things like my sister deciding that all of my friends must be on the autism spectrum because 'they never talk about things that interest me!' which is a profoundly weird thing to say about any group of people.
At least, in this case, they're looking at things going on in their own bodies. Having the condition would explain the issues my sister has had with her breast reconstruction (her plastic surgeon has never seen anything like it in terms of scarring and tearing and just generally not doing what it's supposed to) and the fact that she had to stop playing soccer in high school because her femur would pop in and out of joint (it was the mid-80s. The doctor she saw said she was lying about it).
My sister says that the main thing is that, if I do have it, then the odds that Cordelia might are high enough that we should look into it for her so that she can take precautions.
I missed calling my grandmother for her birthday yesterday because I lost track of the date. This week has been weird because of having Cordelia home. I keep thinking that it's a different day of the week than it is. Today is my half-sister's birthday. Tomorrow is our father's birthday.
My sister complained that she can't ever reach Grandma because of the upheaval in that bit of the family. Grandma lives with my uncle and his wife, but they've been staying with my aunt's sister for months because my uncle needs to be close enough to a particular hospital to get there immediately if he matches for a lung transplant. Grandma is not with them. Last fall, our youngest cousin who is 18, moved back in (I don't know if she's still taking classes, but she came back from college) to stay with Grandma, but that wasn't expected to be long term. At that point, the doctors were saying that my uncle would never leave the hospital again.
If my youngest cousin has gone back to school, Grandma might be staying with one of my other cousins. One is married, and I think his wife is still staying at home with their young kids. The other cousin is divorced and works a very time consuming job, so I don't know that he could give Grandma what she needs which is basically just someone there to make sure she's okay if she falls and that she has food.
Grandma's 94 and mentally sharp but very tired and frail and nearly blind. My uncle converted space in his house into an apartment for her with a walk-in shower and everything else she needed. The thing is that she doesn't answer the phone, and our youngest cousin tends to hang up on people whose voices she doesn't recognize.
I think I just need to email my older two cousins. They will know what's going on. I'm pretty sure that the one with the time consuming job is managing all of the details because that's part of his personality. I'm also pretty sure that nobody wants the youngest cousin putting her life on hold indefinitely.
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Date: 2018-04-13 09:46 pm (UTC)Some teachers use things like Google Classrooms. Some use Edmodo. Some use other platforms like Moodle. There's no uniformity. Those who do use the website often update irregularly.
The only platform that everyone uses is PowerSchool, and that's just a grading summary. It lists assignments and whether or not they've been turned in, but it doesn't explain them or link to explanations of them. It's mainly intended for parents to see if their kids are failing to turn in homework.