Life's a bitch, so is cancer and bad timing

I'm writing this just to let some of my close friends know why I am not showing up anymore.

About two weeks ago my PC broke down on me... It is likely the mainboard as it's not even booting the BIOS anymore. So it's dead for good.
This comes at the worst timing too as my mother has suffered a stroke, has a severely damaged liver and has been found to have cancer metastases in her body. I had howled and cried like a seal in the night of her stroke, being scared of losing her. She is in hospital now, her left side still paralyzed and chemo therapy is carefully being attempted, but she is very weak.
Not exactly a time in which it helps to be cut off from my closest friends and my Second Life or not to get some mental distraction, but alas that's the luck life throws at me sometimes. I had thought I pretty much had hit bottom already in the past but it can always get worse still, right?.

I am writing this using a very outdated old PC that chokes and crashes just trying to run my Windows so I am naturally unable to take part in my Second Life anymore or do other common activities. I am lucky I can even get this done. With my luck it might break too with the stress I am putting on it to have any contact at all.
We can't afford replacing any hardware as we barely have enough money for living at all now and the additional expenses of gasoline to get to the hospital for visits aren't helping.
My only hope now is that a friend of mine has offered to help me out to get new hardware, which I am very very very grateful for and this hope is what keeps me sane and avoid the mental breakdown I would have if I were to be cut off from my close friends due to our financial situation. It will likely take a couple of month still though until I have a functional PC again.

So I'll be back when I'll be back. *sigh*