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Dec. 20th, 2020 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zyzylyHello again, it's been another 3-4 weeks worth of stuff. Sometimes I want to write more frequently, but get stuck on one thing that I don't really want to write about, so I don't write anything. I want to write more in 2021--maybe something every day.
This is my stepsister Robbin. She had knee surgery in the fall, and had to have a cast on for close to two months to keep it from falling apart. When they took the cast off, they discovered that she had some breakdown on her ankle. That got infected, and she ended up in the hospital just after Thanksgiving with sepsis. She was getting better, and called me just before my birthday to tell me she was going home the next day, and that she loved me.
That evening she threw a clot into her lungs and had to be intubated and placed on a ventilator. They gave her an anticoagulant, and she had a massive brain bleed and died the next day. A perfect storm of things gone wrong.
I am so glad I got to talk to her the day before.
Once the pandemic has subsided, we will have a celebration for both her and my dad.
This fucking year.
This is my stepsister Robbin. She had knee surgery in the fall, and had to have a cast on for close to two months to keep it from falling apart. When they took the cast off, they discovered that she had some breakdown on her ankle. That got infected, and she ended up in the hospital just after Thanksgiving with sepsis. She was getting better, and called me just before my birthday to tell me she was going home the next day, and that she loved me.
That evening she threw a clot into her lungs and had to be intubated and placed on a ventilator. They gave her an anticoagulant, and she had a massive brain bleed and died the next day. A perfect storm of things gone wrong.
I am so glad I got to talk to her the day before.
Once the pandemic has subsided, we will have a celebration for both her and my dad.
This fucking year.
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Date: 2020-12-20 10:14 pm (UTC)I agree completely about this year, it is awful.
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Date: 2020-12-22 10:39 am (UTC)Robbin looks so vital in that photo. It's hard to imagine someone with such lovely energy struck down. My heart goes out to you and your family.
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Date: 2020-12-26 02:38 pm (UTC)I think we are in a bit better space now, looking forward to a new year. Peace and blessings to you.