High Holy Mass of Contradictions

My mom called this afternoon and said my dad may have had a mild stroke during the chemotherapy. They're not sure if it really was a stroke, but his mobility is affected and the right side of his body is very weak. All in all, it sounds like he's having a harder time with this treatment than he had with the previous two series of treatments. My mom sounds exhausted, too.

So we're getting ready to leave for Chicago first thing tomorrow morning, as planned, but now I'm trying to think if there's anything extra I can do or bring to make things easier on my mom. Nothing's coming to me.

Anyway, funny thing: qe2 just poked her head in the door. She had most generously offered to look after the kitties while we're gone, but apparently I gave her the wrong start date. Whoops! I felt bad that she came all the way over for nothing, but it was a fairly amusing moment. Karsten said "At least you didn't catch us doing anything illegal." Quite. ;-)