Some Personal Drama

We are, unfortunately, due for 10 inches of snow either Monday or Tuesday. Possibly along with an ice storm. Meanwhile, the time has come to get my sister to the hospital for a feeding tube. Something I forgot to mention with everything going on with Nellie—she now has a bacterial infection that appears to be eating the flesh off her face, on both sides. From the tip of her chin, to just below her ears. If anyone has seen clips from Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever (by accident on my part)…it looks a bit like that, spreading each night due to the stuff coming out. (Sorry, I’m trying to keep the gory details to a minimum there.)

Because of her being unable (and argumentative on all occasions, unwilling to eat on many—-the Loritab they put her on for the pain makes her so much worse) to eat, the infectious disease specialist finally said to just put her into the hospital. Besides, her blood work indicates severe anemia and malnutrition, which obviously would not help to halt the spread of whatever that is. Oh, and various biopsies have never revealed exactly what the mess is. There’s also peripheral edema that won’t go away, but that’s a side effect of the malnutrition.

Having looked up both MRSA and Infantigo, (or Impetigo, says Wikipedia—someone thought it might be that for a while) I don’t really think it’s either of those.

I’m posting all this outside a locked post—-because when the Yuletide presents are revealed, if I’m late on commenting to say thank you for whatever I get from the person assigned me, I’m sorry. There's a lot going on. I’ll get to it when I can.

Fannish Items of Interest

U.S. And Russia Announce Online Piracy Crackdown Agreement.

The Best of Rifftrax Live In Theaters January.

Christmas With Rifftrax: Santa’s Village of Madness (Sample).

James Marsden - With Great Power Extended Interview

Happy Holidays From Stan Lee.

The opening scene of Doctor Who’s The Snowmen.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Christmas Movies/Specials That Should Be Riffed (Round 2)

The Power List: 22 People Who Supercharged Science Fiction And Fantasy In 2012.

Sir Ian McKellen’s favorite Hobbit scene didn’t even make it in the movie.

Fan Art Fridays: Danny Hellman’s ‘Strange Santa’ Illustrations. Santa as Van Helsing—odd crossover.

Awesome Art Picks: Joker, Spider-Man, Darkseid And More.

Kristen Stewart Confirms Return For Snow White And The Huntsman Sequel.

The New Writer of Batgirl Is…Gail Simone.

ABC exorcises 666 Park Avenue from its schedule.

Leverage Cancelled, Series Finale To Air December 25th.

Addictive TV series you can mainline right now to escape the holiday blues.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—Batman And Plastic Man Have A Buttlegging Christmas.

Geek Gear: Batman ‘Harley Country’ Shirt.

Illyana Rasputin, as drawn by Art Adams.

Oh, the world didn’t end yesterday? Nutcracker Galactus will take care of that.

Ghostbusters-Inception Mash-Up Is Why The Internet Was Created.

Christopher Lee has just released two heavy metal Christmas covers.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #156: Christmas Rush (2002)

Smodcast: Paul Dini: The Dini Dossiers: Part 4. They’re discussing holiday-themed episodes of Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited.

Livejournal sent me a notice saying that the x_meggan Paid Account expires in 5 days. Even though I used those tokens to renew it. Even if it says the extra icons are renewed until sometime in 2013. We’ll see if the LJ tokens actually worked in 5 days, then. If not, I’ll just end up going through and deleting icons when I have the time.