Background: The year is 2022, the world is still trying to shake off the Covid pandemic, and I'm zipping back and forth between Boston and Florida as random wacky health events keep happening to my 92-year old mother.  Each time, we almost think it's the end of the line, but she somehow pulls out of it and keeps going -- with plenty of help from yours truly, in various capacities.

This began in mid-September as I tried to document a really crazy time I was living through, and later I started filling in some of the backstory and lead-up to that earlier through the year.  Much of it is plain-text taken from email exchanges, and some items are from me just trying to update a few select people on where I was and what was happening.  It's a little random, but roughly in chronological order once we get into the main flow of events from mid-September onward. 

FL trip 2: downsizing, in case of unexpected accomodation changes.
Irreversible physical changes coupled with declining ability for Mom to maintain a fully independent lifestyle drove efforts on several fronts to simply get rid of excess stuff -- certain items and collections that simply weren't going to be of much use anymore.  Mom's the exact opposite of what we sometimes see on the hoarder shows, wanting to pare possessions down rather than accumulate more and more as she faces her own eventual decline and demise.  This trip itself was triggered by an unanticipated hospital visit she needed, followed by a stay in the retirement-facility's skilled-nursing section, all for reasons I'm still not fully sure about.  As the situation developed and she clearly wasn't too happy there, I decided to simply load up the go-kit and head down to "rescue her out of confinement".  From there, we worked on life-simplification on several fronts.  Here, therefore, are various batches of email around that, split by area of interest aka "topical saga", with various context explanation where needed.

  saga-mail.html : Discussion around what to do about held USPS mail after the allowed 30 day maximum
  saga-car.html : Selling off Mom's car, in a manner to balance efficiency vs. recovered value
  saga-knit.html : Shipping all the remaining knitted items to where they could eventually be auctioned
  saga-tarot.html : Taking on the large collection of tarot decks, with an eye toward slowly selling them
  saga-rocks.html : Getting rid of the remainders of Mom's extensive rock/mineral and related collection
  saga-wrap.html : General wrap-up of the downsizing process and the flow of this visit

FL trip 3: which I fully expected to be the last one ... but wait!
I began writing up my experiences near-live from about this point forward, corresponding with a few individuals that were 1> wondering what I was up to and why I was out of town so much that year, 2> some of Mom's friends/acquaintances who were asking about her status, or 3> folks with a professional relationship to Mom who might be affected by her life events. 

  220909.txt : Just when we thought she was safe by herself again...
  220909-docu.txt : DocuSign rant, triggered by ignorant hospice personnel   ( and my response )
  220912.txt : Observations from the early September trip down and arrival
  220915.txt : The "resurrection", and my rapidly morphing workload
  220915b.txt : Related thoughts, and a few more email exchanges
  220919.txt : Update, just before the move out of hospice
  220923.txt : Set up in local skilled-nursing, and finally a little breathing room for me
  Reddit rant : A dump of my frustrations dealing with the Fidelity Investments website
    [ which Fidelity censored and removed; here is the original post text ]
      [and boyhowdy, there are a lot of kool-aid slurpin' fanboiz in that reddit, blindly believing that Fidelity can do no wrong.]
  220927-bf.txt : A status report posted to the Society for Barefoot Living mailing list that I'm on, just pre-hurricane ...
  220929.html : Aren't things weird enough already?? Now we get a monster hurricane. We survived okay; parts of SW Florida did not.
  221005.txt : An info-dump on trust and PoA documents, and online fun with financial houses
  221005-boa.txt : Fun diversion for Science!, and what everyone hates about Bank of America
  221009.txt : Some more informal correspondence, trying to field questions from some friends in related situations.
  221010.txt : A bit of frustration creeping in over the long weekend, about how long these processes are taking.
  221013-amb.txt : Rant to the support at the invoicing platform that county EMS uses, on a piss-poor website design
  221016.txt : Finally, an actual decision on next steps: Mom would return to the old familiar house!
  221021.txt : A bumpy road back to relative independence, but finally enabling my departure
  221027.txt : Notes from the run back home

And a bit later on, FL trip 4: back to "normal" ??
  221225.html : Updates from the December holidays-time trip, remarking on a welcome return to relative status-quo.

I will continue adding segments both forward and backward as I locate or live them.

Then we get Chapter Two: the real end