The Grandfather is out of the hospital. He's at home now. You'll never guess who called up there and raised a stink to help the poor guy. It was my mother. Apparently, until I called him while he was in the hospital, my mother had not spoken to him since before he went in. When I called her and told her that he no longer had pneumonia and was being held there and drugged into oblivion, she called him herself. Then she spoke with the staff. Then she started in on the family and told them what I first told her, "Get him out of there before they kill him." Of course, the hospital staff stuffed him full of mind-numbing drugs again on his way out the door and told the family to do the same at home. The family trusted the doctors and then they wondered why Grampa was unable to speak or eat and could only lie in his chair and mumble. Well... my mother, the head shrinker - you're not going to believe this, people - she actually has the ability to tell the truth. She told them to stop giving him the pills. Of course, the doctor thought calling Hospice would be better than doing something like not drugging an old man who can't defend himself. Thankfully, the family listened to my mother instead. Guess what? He's been up, he's been eating, and he can think and carry on a conversation again. Go figure. You mean all he needed was to not be drugged within an inch of his life? Well I'll be damned! Who'd a thunk it? I have absolutely no idea how we, as a species, made it to the moon. This little episode is only one of the many things that build a pretty good case for us all having descended from monkeys.

In other news, I feel better for having told the truth to the therapist without backing down on the decision not to share certain things with him right now. I feel some relief for having handled the situation this way. And I was able to check a few more things off my to-do list Thursday, too. This week has been surprisingly productive. Sometimes I procrastinate things that really should be done but are a pain in the butt. I did quite a few of those kinds of things this week. Some of those things had been put off for weeks or months. I'm closing in on clearing the list now. I feel good because of it.