Finished responding to all my email and Facebook messages which seemed to take forever, LOL. I heard from Maliheh, Alison, Kim, Nane, Irene and my sister. Only my sister had some pretty unpleasant news to share. She’s got an autoimmune disease called Sjogren’s. Two years ago, around the time we got into it online, it started with one lung and a dry mouth, but now it has spread to her other lung and around the heart because it is difficult to diagnose and went untreated. So despite our past differences, I feel bad for the suffering she’s going through. She has trouble breathing and even trouble standing and walking due to nerve damage.

She’s going to be undergoing chemo to try to kill some bad cells, then maybe even a bone marrow transplant in the future, but from what my research says Sjogren’s isn’t deadly, just a nightmare to have to live with. She’s on full disability now and home bored.

It’s ironic that she came down with this around the time she and her brood pissed me off.

I’d be lying if I said (though I won’t say it online of course) that I didn’t wish it would kill her so there’d be one less sibling to have to share any inheritance money with, but I couldn’t get that lucky. I also know Tammy has a history of being a hypochondriac and exaggerating “conditions” and whatnot. Even if it did kill her, her kids would get what she would have gotten, no doubt.

I entered to win a trip to Munich and we’ll leave it to fate from there, as I told Nane. What I didn’t tell her was that I know she Googled me yesterday and spent about a half-hour combing through my blog, LOL. Really it was all I could do to keep from asking her, “Did you find what you were looking for?”

I got a little worried she would either dump me or really let me have it for some of the things I wrote about her, but she never said a word and we were chatting happily about the weather shortly afterward.

Maliheh said she’s preparing for Hurricane Irene and hoping not to lose power, and Alison, who is as cursed health-wise as we are money-wise, said she’s just getting over pneumonia.

Love how she said the troll gave her her old Kiwibox PW when they were “friends” so she could do her journal or deal with any rudeness in her notes. Then one day she got curious and wanted to see if she used the same simple PW on other sites and was able to access her email account, which she’s sort of taken over, even though she’s never sent anything from it. She just wanted to see what kind of shit she was saying behind her back about her, Kim and Kathy.