Paul Gadzikowski

You may know Thursday night I tweeted:

• Thu, 14:53: Back to the ER for @horseyparalegal: tremors that won't stop and rising pulse.
• Thu, 16:30: Tremors lasted two hours. Hospital keeping @horseyparalegal at least overnight.

Friday afternoon in my wife’s hospital room we were visited by the doctor who’s the director of palliative services for the healthcare system our doctors and hospital are part of. A month ago when she was in the hospital, a couple of reps from that department visited us and suggested it was time to start preparing for when she needed to go into skilled care permanently and switch away from aggressive cancer treatment to keeping her comfortable for the end of her time. The director of the department came to see us Friday to suggest that that time has come.

We were reluctant to hear this so we decided to ask my wife’s physician and her oncologist for their opinion. They each stopped by my wife’s room Monday, coincidentally at the same time, and did concur with what the palliative doctor said.

Right now she’s still in the hospital because they’re still diagnosing and determining treatment for the tremors that put her in the ER last Thursday. But they've asked us to choose a skilled care center tomorrow morning, which she almost certainly won’t be coming home from.

• Thu, 13:15: Peanut butter, jelly, no bread.
• Thu, 18:42: RT @mollycrabapple: Police create imagery of themselves tying up, sexually humiliating, leading off sex workers. Say its for the dignity of women
• Thu, 18:53: On my LJ flist one person's recovering from chemo, another's anticipating his goddaughter's last days; and my wife's in the hospital again.
• Thu, 23:34: must sketch can't let 3Faces go Friday to Friday with no appearance by the Doctor
• Fri, 02:31: Hero of Three Faces sketch: let's see if he can fly that. http://t.co/3IRJUaH4Vs #doctorwho
• Fri, 06:43: Creative Process update: backwards. http://t.co/pBivFjN5kH #webcomics #CreativeProcess
• Fri, 10:06: So Tyrion spends odd numbered books locked up for murders he didn't commit?

• Sun, 13:27: now she has a fever
• Sun, 15:57: Hero of Three Faces update: good idea! Wait. http://t.co/u6xtWn9uaz #doctorwho #startrek
• Sun, 16:11: the tradition of Black Madonnas goes back to attributed images by Saint Luke, purportedly drawn from life; in other… http://t.co/lHuhBbGPg4
• Sun, 16:28: RT @nschim: #SaySomethingLiberalIn4words President of ALL people http://t.co/soetzPJnzf
• Sun, 16:29: About creepy guys - realsocialskills: A lot of men (and probably other genders, but mostly men) like to... http://t.co/yA1D95tn6T
• Sun, 16:37: women of star trek - yeoman janice rand This poor woman. If bad stuff happened it happened to her. http://t.co/AhqhChjbMf
• Sun, 17:01: #doctorwho #bsg http://t.co/1tWQiFzHju
• Sun, 17:02: That's it. That's the answer, for all time. If Superman and Batman fought, who'd win? Neither. http://t.co/i1cc0KXD0Q
• Sun, 18:14: Thank Heaven For Fangirls: How Lancelot and Guinevere Got It On - rawmythistory: First of all, our sincere... http://t.co/8HKGKiciDK
• Sun, 18:46: "Why do men feel threatened by women?” I asked a male friend of mine. (I love that wonderful rhetorical..." http://t.co/YtdYtxKOjW
• Sun, 19:31: If you only had 4 words to tell your younger self something, what would they be? - waywren:... http://t.co/SyRurmmyyL
• Sun, 19:44: Traces of coca and nicotine found in Egyptian mummies ... http://t.co/mfjrualzKS
• Sun, 19:55: Popular antidepressant Effexor recalled: What you should do - harrrymonster: blissandzen: Patients taking... http://t.co/B1srOtK982
• Mon, 03:41: RT @DrFunkySpoon: Elephants may have a vocalization that means “Humans! - Lets get out of here!” http://t.co/KQg9iGQ951
• Mon, 04:36: Went to bed relatively early - relatively for the last two nights, tryna catch up on sleep. Woke up coughing at 02:00, naturally.
• Mon, 04:42: Tomorrow night Nyquil and Mucinex for sure.
• Mon, 06:24: Tried to go back to sleep about 05:00, failed. Just emailed work I won't be in till afternoon.
• Mon, 08:35: RT @robfordofficiaI: white people will correct you when you say "britain" when you mean "england" but can't get more specific than "africa"
• Mon, 09:58: Tried to go back to sleep for the morning. Two whistles. Got up, composed this tweet in my head, tried to log on to my laptop with it.

• Tue, 12:32: "It's a nice day." "You're very tall." "You got a haircut." #h2g2 #hhgg
• Tue, 18:28: Are even thousand tweetcounts still a thing at 16,000 or is it time to advance to acknowledginging increments of at least five thousand?
• Tue, 21:39: #AKOTAS update: doesn't work for everyone. http://t.co/LL64XmC6Nf #webcomics #kingarthur
• Tue, 21:54: Photo: neversaysdie: liberalsarecool: America has to end the obsession with overcompensating CEOs while... http://t.co/sr2HEVfk5A
• Tue, 21:57: Fake Geek Girl: Penny Arcade and the Slow Murder of Satire - mammon-machine: That Mike Krahulik would revive... http://t.co/zTLVfXSeTB
• Wed, 07:29: Slept poorly. When asleep, dreams of undefined discomfort. When awake, congested and headachey.
• Wed, 11:07: I haven't discussed this much here: Right now I'm the only driver among four adults across two households totalling seven people.
• Wed, 11:07: I get up at four and go to bed at eleven and work make-up hours almost every weekend, at least since the beginning of July,
• Wed, 11:07: and still don't get enough me time, spouse time, or just-moved-into-this house time.
• Wed, 11:08: This is on top of @horseyparapegal's brain tumor saga (as currently serialized in Creative Process) and one new node in her lungs.
• Wed, 11:08: (Though there will be no chemo for the new nodes for a few months, if at all, cuz chemo doesn't mix well with rads.)
• Wed, 11:08: Plus my stepson got promoted to fulltime with benefits and my daughter-in-law has been running around getting her MS diagnosed.
• Wed, 11:08: So, my readership seems to be too small for this kind of jerk but, anyone with AKOTAS entitlement rage, two words: mile, shoes.
• Wed, 11:25: representation http://t.co/dgPACCxeRt
• Wed, 11:51: RT @demiurgent: Any state refusing to process the mandated federal same-sex benefits of its National Guard has no business claiming to “support the troops".

• Mon, 21:48: #AKOTAS update: back again. http://t.co/ycGSeLi0QR #webcomics #kingarthur
• Mon, 22:15: Apparently today I thought of nothing interesting enough to tweet that I could remember it long enough to do so.
• Tue, 08:16: RT @KMB2476: @ReignOfApril On Today Show they just slut shamed Miley for 5 minutes and then did a promo for a live Chris Brown performance …
• Tue, 08:22: RT @DrJaneChi: Surprise! RT @lizziefin: New study: Parental involvement laws for abortion don't reduce risky sex http://t.co/IvbW1ujGoo
• Tue, 08:23: With @horseyparalegal for her outpatient "radiosurgery". Friday's Creative Process drawn.
• Tue, 08:32: Hospital wifi server blocks Tumblr. Can get my dashboard but not all image files come through. Not that desperate, yet, but here all day.
• Tue, 08:33: RT @APStylebook: AP Style: Use Pvt. Chelsea E. Manning and female pronouns for soldier formerly known as Bradley Manning, per her wishes to live as a woman.
• Tue, 10:03: RT @BadAstronomer: Well, what did you *think* would happen when you tell your megachurch congregation vaccines are linked to autism? http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/08/26/antivax_communities_get_measles_outbreaks_linked_to_denial_of_vaccines.html

• Tue, 12:04: RT @BoingBoing: Tennessee takes away gun permit from guy who threatened to kill anyone who tried to take away his guns http://t.co/MPf1BxLU
• Tue, 14:38: In today's school shooting, there were apparently two shooters. Bet each one believes he was the good guy from the NRA's scenario.
• Tue, 16:33: Today @horseyparalegal had scan postponed Friday. "Tiny" nodes still in right lung. Two month break from chemo, then scan again.
• Tue, 16:59: RT @Paul_Cornell: @sophie_aldred @RevRichardColes What's actually the central message of the New Testament? 'Throw away the book and love.'
• Tue, 21:06: #AKOTAS update: but his falls shorter in the same categories he complains of. http://t.co/CpFy8EkO #webcomics #kingarthur
• Wed, 06:51: Do I recall correctly that there've been upcoming season publicity stills or trailer shots of River Song? Links, anyone? #doctorwho
• Wed, 08:22: Hah! Got a gag for tomorrow's AKOTAS that not only brings the lady of Malehaute back but explains where she's been for a year.
• Wed, 09:51: Now the latest I've seen states that #Beyonce was not lip-synching but singing along to a prerecorded instrumental track.
• Wed, 09:53: If #Beyonce was lip-syncing, I see it argued, she couldn't have taken her only earpiece out halfway through.
• Wed, 10:05: So ... today's big announcement in fandom is that Doctor Who will be back on Easter Saturday ... just like usual ...

• Fri, 15:49: Bad wifi day at chemo. Also, bad chemo day: low platelets and low red cells mean transfusion instead of chemo. Progress scan in two weeks.
• Fri, 16:01: The trick with the hospital wifi turns out to be, find an area where it will connect and then go back to where you're actually sitting.
• Fri, 16:10: They're telling us there was a bedbug in one of our coats.
• Fri, 16:11: We're deducing it came from the new car.
• Fri, 16:22: @ebonstorm Twitter finally repllied to my complaint about your hashtag issue with other than a stock nonsequitur. (cont)
• Fri, 16:23: @ebonstorm (cont) They said they can't discuss another user's account with me and the other user must contact them directly.
• Fri, 16:29: Today I decided to draw a sight gag for AKOTAS for Sunday. Then I actually did.
• Fri, 16:30: Now I want to draw a BVS gag for 3Faces. Stay tuned.
• Fri, 19:18: Looks like this is the week #Supernatural finally joins the triangle fanfiction multiverse. #spn
• Fri, 19:28: #AKOTAS update: living with dichotomy. http://t.co/GY4juBKK #webcomics #kingarthur
• Fri, 19:39: Curses! Scripting of a tetralogy of Supernatural triangle crossovers temporarily thwarted by a backlog of Tumblr dashboard!
• Fri, 19:48: $#!+ my captain says #startrek http://t.co/FjPkX5J3
• Fri, 20:00: A Tumblr post just drove me to put all the versions I have of the #DoctorWho theme on a shuffled repeated playlist.
• Fri, 20:19: Tumblr having trouble loading. If the hotspot's gone spotty I may get those 3Faces written. (And may not be able to tweet this.)
• Fri, 20:26: Okay, back to gagwriting.
• Fri, 20:43: Say, groupmind, can you remind me when the #SPN episode aired that the boys went to the dimension where #SPN is produced?
• Fri, 21:24: Do I really need a punchline for the fourth SPN gag before I start drawing the first one?
• Fri, 21:25: No. But I need to figure out how to draw Jensen Ackles in triangle style.
• Fri, 21:32: Guess I have to start with a sketch day
• Fri, 21:39: Looking twice, these aren't really SPN gags, they're BVS crossover gags. Though Dean's fun to dialog. Few get the last word in on Spike.
• Sat, 08:31: Hero of Three Faces sketches: hunters. http://t.co/bIcypwRP #spn
• Sat, 09:10: http://t.co/x2u6E1Tf Looks like @SirPatStew @WilliamShatner @CarrieFFisher @TheRealNimoy dunno what actual autists think about those people.

• Thu, 13:48: RT @CBLDF: The Washington Post examines video game spending and gun crime and finds no link between the two:... http://t.co/sJkTyVQ7
• Thu, 13:49: Today would have been my parents' 54th wedding anniversary.
• Thu, 14:27: I wanna draw tomorrow's AKOTAS but I want the talking heads doing more'n just talking and I can't think what. Something easy to draw ...
• Thu, 15:23: I like The Snowmen, but I find I haven't anything else to say about it than that.
• Thu, 17:05: #AKOTAS update: the cost of poverty. http://t.co/D99s9ffl #webcomics #kingarthur
• Thu, 17:10: Creative Process update: generous. http://t.co/3JDUtjxY #webcomics #CreativeProcess
• Thu, 17:17: (That Creative Process update tweet was my 12,000th.)
• Thu, 20:46: We're watching Groundhog Day. I've never seen it before.
• Thu, 20:48: I'm watching Groundhog Day for the first time.
• Thu, 20:53: We put Groundhog Day on. I haven't seen it.
• Thu, 21:28: It's our friend's birthday and she wanted to watch Groundhog Day. I've never seen it.
• Fri, 10:05: This appears to be the room on the hospital chemo floor where the wifi doesn't work. #scifichat
• Fri, 11:01: (For my own future reference it's room 19)

• Thu, 12:53: Number strings are the worst IVR recordings to proof. They require above average attention to detail and are twice to ten times longer.
• Thu, 14:38: RT @daibhidc: #Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill could mean life in prison for LGBT people. We've days to stop it. Email the authorities ht ...
• Thu, 16:53: At vet w/big cat. Seemed really sick days ago - better now but still thin. Mighta got into something when she got out last week.
• Thu, 18:27: Cat having tests run and getting diarrhea meds. We may lose cable and internet Monday.
• Thu, 19:04: Cat has colitis.
• Thu, 20:36: Cat is home. There's pills we're going to have to force on her and we're supposed to check whether we have hemorrhoid creme.
• Thu, 21:01: Thursday night is for drawing webcomics, yay. No script yet for AKOTAS or Creative Process, boo.
• Thu, 21:05: "Careful, he's a bomber." #elementary
• Thu, 21:08: The radio voice sounded to me like it said, "Captain. Tinkerbell." #elementary
• Thu, 21:36: Please stop it, people. #DoctorWho was never targeted at "children". It's always been targeted at families.
• Thu, 21:37: Had a phone call, now twenty minutes behind on #Elementary.
• Thu, 22:02: #AKOTAS update: you should hear what Jefferson said on the subject. http://t.co/DLRLZi9x #webcomics #kingarthur
• Thu, 22:08: RT @AfterMASHseasn3: Dudziak tries to help out an ex-WAC who has become a prostitute.
• Thu, 22:44: So much grist for Creative Process gag in the past week, just need a punchline that doesn't sound like sucking around for contributions.
• Thu, 23:05: Okay, now I just have to decide who from the audience of my journal comic to draw in as saying this one's punchline. #firstpersonproblems
• Thu, 23:06: It has to be someone with personal knowledge of webcomics culture. #firsthandproblems
• Thu, 23:09: And, of course, someone who I know what they look like. #firstlookproblems #nowimreaching
• Thu, 23:34: Creative Process uploaded and ready for updating. Put my stepdaughter in it for the first time cuz it shouldn't have been this long.
• Thu, 23:37: So, time for sleeping. Chemo day tomorrow. Later start than usual, though, which only means we could possibly be there till 23:00 or 00:00.
• Fri, 08:51: Creative Process update: gateway. http://t.co/UsBRz94p #webcomics #CreativeProcess
• Fri, 09:37: @GailSimone I'm eating cisbagels with cream cheese. I feel left out.
• Fri, 10:19: Time to pack up for chemo. Have caught up on Tumblr since, even if the wifi is working, the server blocks Tumblr as porn.
• Fri, 11:39: Think I've finally written the AKOTAS gag that rates having Jesus in it. Will take till Christmas to decide.

• Thu, 12:32: RT @laura_hudson: To see what a REAL model of inclusive geekdom looks like, check out what should be THE FINAL WORD on this, by @scalzi: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/07/26/who-gets-to-be-a-geek-anyone-who-wants-to-be/
• Thu, 13:33: RT @DanAmira: Dick Morris: Obama "wants to force everyone into the cities from whence our ancestors fled." http://t.co/gKVIpkCm
• Thu, 14:57: I'm dithering about the special effect I wanted in today's AKOTAS. Do I think it's unnecessary, or do I think I'm too tired to pull it off?
• Thu, 18:26: Decided what to do about that special effect: something mechanical instead of something arty, harder to botch.
• Thu, 21:58: What a fantastic mix of what I wanted to see done and what I didn't. #Elementary #IreneAdler
• Thu, 22:06: #AKOTAS update: promotion. http://t.co/dR21Ws93 #webcomics #kingarthur
• Thu, 22:08: RT @AfterMASHseasn3: Hawkeye learrns his old flame Carlye Breslin Walton has died.
• Thu, 23:48: Wait. This is tv drama. Maybe she isn't, really. #Elementary #IreneAdler
• Fri, 06:41: Creative Process update: climax. http://t.co/nvhfq0no #webcomics #CreativeProcess
• Fri, 07:01: spastasmagoria: WHY DO YOU BASTARDS KEEP KILLING IRENE?? Does anyone have any feels about this whole Irene fr… http://t.co/UzGdSMao
• Fri, 07:11: It's chemo day and the hospital wifi blocks Tumblr. Gonna have to, I dunno, draw all morning.
• Fri, 08:10: RT @allyngibson: Elementary:Conan Doyle::Merlin:Sir Thomas Malory
• Fri, 08:12: RT @evanier: Isn't this a dumb time for Hostess Twinkies and Ding Dongs to be going out of business, what with marijuana being legalized?
• Fri, 10:45: Looks like a bad wifi day at the hospital. Good thing I updated Creative Process from home. #scifichat