Family Stress | Patreon Weekly #127 (Patreon)

Hey Patrons, unfortunately I’ve got nothing to share this week.

As I mentioned last week, I’ve been dealing with some family stuff lately, which I hoped would be resolved early enough this week for me to get some work done. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen; instead, this week has been extremely difficult. I got back home late Friday and have been mostly just recovering since.

I’d rather not go into full details, but here’s a quick overview of what happened, which hopefully explains why I’ve not been able to get anything done.

I’ve been out of town helping my grandmother get moved into a long-term care home. Aside from the obvious work & stress that causes, this has also involved clearing out her home in preparation for selling it. This home is filled with so, so many things and it’s no exaggeration to say that clearing it is essentially deconstructing the lives of my grandmother, my late grandfather, my mother, and my three uncles.

When my parents and I arrived, we learned that this deconstruction was going to be rushed through over the course of a few days. Having to work at that pace was extremely tiring and emotionally taxing for everyone. So, for the last week I’ve been doing a bunch of grunt work, dealing with seeing my grandmother’s home ripped apart, dealing with my grandmother moving into a home, and helping my mother deal with all of that as well. It’s been a pretty hellish week.

The good news at least is I’m now on the other end of it, and so I should hopefully be able to have some things to share for next week. I am likely going to be going back down there in early December, but that is mostly to help sort through things we’ve moved to storage, which should hopefully be less soul-crushing.