Too much $h*t

It’s never good to be a stress eater.
It’s even worse when you’re feeling overwhelmed with worry.
My sister is by far my best friend. No one gets me like she does and vice versa.
She left here just before New Year’s and promptly got what we thought was a case of the flu. The night before she left she was looking rough. That girl always has dark circles under her eyes but the ones she had that night were like nothing I’d ever seen before on her. Anyway, that case of the flu has turned into something apparently much worse. She is still sick. Keeping it classy…I will just say whatever has been something like what I call the ‘both ends flu’. SHe has been tired to the point that she can’t even function and nearly passed out. They are talking about doing a colonoscopy on her and have been running all kinds of tests. Right now they are just saying it’s a ‘bacterial infection’ but that seems like such a cop out. They are saying it could be 3-4 months before she is better and they have no idea where it even came from. I hate ending sentences with the word from or any preposition. So anyway, they really don’t know what is going on with her but it’s bad enough that our Mom is over there trying to help out because my sister currently isn’t even functioning well enough to feel safe in driving to the grocery store and the kids are getting scared. And of course her worthless husband doesn’t take any of this seriously & hasn’t helped her. Ugh. I hope the doctor is right and it’s just a bacterial infection but that just sounds so inconclusive to me. But of course I am not a doctor.
Then…well starting a few weeks ago. My cousin Kathleen, one of my favorite people in the world, underwent (don’t like this word either) emergency brain surgery. She had been having massive headaches for weeks so she went to the ER, where they found an aneurysm. They performed the surgery and all went well. Then yesterday we find out that she wasn’t healing as well as the doctors wanted so she had to undergo a second emergency operation and this one was to me much more involved and will have a longer recovery time. I keep checking my FB for an update from her husband but so far there has been nothing.
All of this on top of the regular stresses..I swear if things don’t start clearing up I am going to gain back all of my weight. I keep eating every sweet thing in sight.
I am not ever one to ask for prayers being an agnostic and all…but if anyone would send some positive healing vibes out to my sister and cousin I would greatly appreciate it.