One cloud feels lonely

Last week Mom told me that her father and my (paternal) grandmother were both in hospital. Grandmother has trouble breathing, grandfather has a bleeding ulcer.

Today I called Dad to ask how grandmother's doing. Dad's wife told me that grandmother is doing OK, but she needs oxygen and has trouble with emptying her lungs, so she can't get enough oxygen for the blood to get to her brain, which is probably why she's been having bouts of seconds-long unconsciousness causing her to fall. Apparently she's finally coming round to moving to some care facility, which is at least a good thing.

However, now Dad is also in the hospital. He's had bad abdominal pains lately. They think it's gall stones. Which shouldn't be dangerous, if that's the case, but the test results from the liver weren't too good, either.

On the brighter side, I'm going to a job interview this afternoon. If anyone's inclined to keep their fingers crossed for me around 11 am GMT, I'd appreciate it.

Job interview report

So, I'm back from the job interview. I was one of the three out of 107 applicants who made it as far as the second interview, which sounds hopeful. The people I talked with were nice and likeable, and what I've heard about their systems sounds like the job could be interesting and challenging enough. As there's no on-call and they discourage overtime, I'd get a lot less stress than I've had here. They're two-three persons to an office, they've got flex hours (although the required presence is 9-15 instead of 10-16, which I've got now).

There might be trouble getting a parking space at the office, though, and I probably couldn't work from home very much. I can deal with not working from home, but I do need the parking space. Of course, I could try to get a doctor to sign my application for disabled-parking again. Last time, the doctor screwed it up, and since I've already got a parking space at current place of work, I didn't have the energy to pursue it.

They said they wanted to make the decision this week. That means Thursday at the latest, as Friday is non-work day here.

Anyone still inclined to keep their fingers crossed, please feel free to do so!