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I checked, I knew it was a while since I was here, but July 3rd is the latest I could find. Soooo... where do I start? Not all at once. I think I mentioned that the roommate had her hand paralyzed, basically, when they tried to put in a fistula. For those who don't know, it is the thing that allows a person getting hemodialysis to get the needles in the arm, generally lower arm, and the machine can clean the blood. Don't ask me exactly how. She got hers in the upper arm because the veins in the lower arm were too small. Apparently so were the ones in the upper arm in her case. So, they, the doctors and herself, decided to get a graft on her leg, the half a leg left in her case. They did the surgery on Wednesday, and said they would send her home after dialysis on Thursday. As the day got later, the roommate told them that if they didn't get it done before 5 they had to keep her the night. I was old and didn't want to drive late. Now... it is Texas, it is the end of July, days are still long, but I appreciated it. They didn't manage it. Then, in the middle of the night I get a phone call from the hospital telling me she had been on CPR for 36 minutes. I was the only phone number they had! Could I do the call? NO!!! I gave them her sister's number. I tried calling, nothing. I finally went to Facebook and found a relative. I found her husband's eldest daughter's FB page. I saw she was awake and I texted her. Obviously we were not friends, but I guess she saw something I've never seen... She got back to me. She said she'd try to get in touch with her dad. Then she asked if everything was okay. "no." was my answer. My friend, Julie Craig, 19.5 years young than I am, died on July 31st, 2026 of a massive coronary. I hope your year is going better than mine...