So it's been a while, no? I think the last blog I posted was about Spike [my biological father] getting sick, being hospitalized and in an induced coma.

I left for California about a day after finding out what was going on with him [and at that point he'd already been in the ICU for about a week], and it was horrible. He lives in a town called Mammoth Lakes, but was hospitalized in Reno, which is about two hours away. I stayed in Mammoth for about a week to work in his store and help...