Well, great news and bad news.
First, the great news, despite medical predictions and all expectations, my mother seems to have recovered from her operation: her kidneys have revived and resumed function, her lungs seem clearer, she's conscious and speaking. Not sure how her heart is, but this seems to be immensely hopeful!
Apparently the Thompsons are even tougher than I thought.
I'd write more about it, but my heart is too full of relief and joy.
The not so good news, my wife got fired last Friday (last thing in the afternoon of course, have to get the whole day's labour from her first). This is more than a little unexpected, as her employer seemed to have a high regard for her, before he got hospitalised with his own serious complications (pneumonia, kidney failure & other stuff).
But apparently his substitute, untrained and insecure, felt threatened by her competence and training and talent, and insisted on her dismissal because 'he couldn't get along with her'. As far as I can tell, that mostly consisted of a complete inability to delegate any work to her or anyone else, and to self-manage by constant flirtation with the edge of disaster and putting himself under unnecessary pressure (the old Hero syndrome I've seen so much of in the IT industry, basically).
We also found today that her previous wages cheque had been bounced for lack of funds. She got to the bank and cashed it directly today, so it's apparently cashflow, not malice, but a fairly good sign that the business is deteriorating rapidly - the october accounts weren't even sent out til the end of November, so the cashflow problem is just going to snowball unless someone starts actually managing the business.
Karmic revenge doesn't normally operate that quickly :)
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