Somehow, I missed Atropa's 7:30a meeting post until I saw people talking about it. Ugh to that on all levels, Atropa.

I am very sad - I just got the news from my sister that they had to put down one of their dogs unexpectedly today. Tally is a dog of my heart, and I am going to miss my sweet girl. There were several years there when every time I was visiting, she would only sleep on my bed. I will miss her so much.

I’m so sorry, JenP.

Really glad to hear you have been discharged, Sophia!! I know it must be frustrating not knowing what the next steps will be exactly. Hope you get a solid treatment plan soon.

Hope your meeting is merely irritatingly early, Atropa, and not ominous.

As for me, I am still sleeping most of the day. Like an infant.

{{{JenP}}}

Rest and heal, lisah! Having new parts seems like it could be pretty tiring.

Big hailstone broke my bedroom window just now. Attendant's DH will have to come tonight and put cardboard in the hole or something. at least the storm seems to be over, though.

generally find hail kind of fascinating, but we usually just get little pebbles. not big angry ones.

Yikes, erika! Dang

very strange and destructive, but aren't we all. that one was, while not big enough to compare to fruit or sporting goods. the size of a big ice cube. was on the weather report, but having a big metro area in a valley means everyone doesn't get it all...thought it would miss us.

Bear McCreary! Cool.

Yikes, erika!

I made it through today. JD Vance made me late for work (when he's in town, they shut down the street his house is on, which means I need to take a ridiculous detour to get to campus), and Ohio politics are being even more infuriating than usual. Had a bunch of minor work issues that weren't individually much, but just a lot to deal with in one day. Then had to take the Vance detour again on the way home, and it took me an hour to get how when it normally takes about 20-30 minutes.

I feel pretty certain you should not just go back to work, Sophia! Whatever is telling you that, don't listen.

I am telling me that! I have so much vacation that I am going to lose that I would rather work a couple hours and do intermittent FMLA to burn the vacation than have no contact with my main source of other people to talk to and mental stimulation in person! Instead I have a gatekeeper boss who told everyone to go through her and she would decide what I needed to hear. I heard this when I reached out to my work friend Bob he had been told not to contact me directly. Now she has texted me “ Would you be okay if a group of us (your friends) worked with you to understand your changing needs while you’re out and set something like a schedule to make sure we help as much as we can?”. She is a hospice nurse and it is rather disconcerting before I know the plan from my actual doctor.