That's so cool, kat.

Cigna is still covering our telehealth for now, praise be. I just had to drive my butt to an actual doctor--but it was for an annual skin check, so I guess that's fair. My skin passed, yay.

I'm having fun following along with the Artemis mission through the NASA app. I gave it permission to update my home screen with a latest picture once a day. It's the most recent Earth shot right now. Love it.

Then I read about their food options and also their daily agendas. Neato.

Successfully donated plasma, yay!

Happy Tom Day!

I think Blue Cross Blue Shield is still covering telehealth on my plan. Thankfully.

That sounds fun Kat! There’s been a cute bunch of stuff on TikTok about people trying out for the US women’s handball team—normally we wouldn’t have one in the games but because of host nation we get to try. But dang that stuff is expensive. (One reason I’m selfishly glad women’s sports aren’t more popular…I couldn’t easily afford things like the World Cup if it was men’s pricing!)

Timelies all!

Happy Tom day!

This week has been another shitshow at home. Mr. S had aggressive meltdowns several days this week, including Wed night when we were supposed to have the seder.(We hosted, my MIL did all the cooking) We just ended up saying a few blessings and Gary did MaNishtana, then we ate. Right now he's with the nanny for logistic reasons. I just don't know what to do. It seems like the smallest things set him off, including me saying anything.

So, I have to have an MRI because something went wonky in my fucking neck when I was at the dentist — for real, the dentist leaned the chair back, and when the chair got to a certain angle, electric hot knife-y pain shot down both arms, and now I have ongoing electric burning nerve pain from my elbows to my hands, including the pinky, ring finger, and middle finger. I didn’t even do anything to cause this, damn it. I just leaned back in the dentist chair.

But it’s been several weeks and isn’t improving, so I saw Awesome Doctor today, and he was like, yep, that’s your neck, and you need an MRI so we know how to treat it. In the interim I have oral steroids, and I hope they help, because this burning nerve pain sucks. And long-term, I hope this can be fixed with PT and/or a steroid injection, because I really don’t want surgery on my cervical spine. (According to Google, 90% of cases are improve with non-surgical treatments. So the odds are good.)

That sounds bad, Tep. I’m glad you have awesome doctor

I don’t know what to say, Sheryl. I’m sorry it’s so hard. I think about you guys a lot.

That sounds bad, Tep. I’m glad you have awesome doctor

More annoying than bad, I guess (unless it really does require surgery). Nerve pain is just so...zappy, like electricity, which is weird as hell.

That sounds bothersome, Steph. Anytime I have issues with back or neck pain my body reminds me how much moving anything else affects them. I get the interconnectedness of all things, but does that have to start with our spinal columns?

Almond butter granola: Here’s a question I saw two lawyers debating on Instagram. If a vampire policeman has a signed warrant, could he enter your house without you giving him permission? (The lawyers disagreed with each other on this.) [link]

What do we think? And would it vary with jurisdiction? The above was US-centric, but what about other countries that have warrants (and, presumably, vampires)?