Happy Plei Day!

Happy birthday, Plei!

Happy Plei Day!

Happy Birthday, Plei!!!

Tim’s weird lump is most likely benign, based on the ENT’s exam and the color of the fluid he took a sample of. Results should be back in a week. I am tentatively mostly relieved.

Surgery went fine — my hand is numb and I am full of ibuprofen and, most importantly, eating a Reuben.

Happy Birthday, Plei!

I am also on super duper Vit D dosing because now, on my own, I am severely underD-d. A lot of people are, in fact (well, maybe not severely, but it's a thing.)

We are wearing more sunscreen. Which is happier for less skin cancer and better aging but, I think, we should be supplementing to account for the SPF. I'm on daily now but was Rx for several months trying to boost my levels up.

Yay for benign-seeming and also for successful surgery. And Reubens, frankly. Good outcomes for the day.

Full day today. Dentist at 9 AM, Grocery store stop, PCP at 10:45, Nails at 1:45, then a visit to my MIL, next taking the dog to the park, then seriously packing. Tomorrow, I'm packing and cleaning to get out of here Saturday morning.

My Vit D levels have been fine in the last few labs. Probably because life, dog walks, and swimming get me plenty of sun.

My poor brother already has enough going on in his life, but more drama just got piled on. I probably mentioned a couple of years ago or so, his ex-wife sued for custody of their granddaughter based on a guardianship agreement she had when the child was a toddler, and her teen daughter couldn't take care of her. As a teen, the kid convinced her grandmother that her life was impossible, and she got moved in with my brother, despite living in an adults-only community. The ex-wife, ever a fan of lawyers, sued the community, claiming that she couldn't leave with the kid because she had to stay and take care of my brother, blah, blah. The adults' only thing is tough to enforce, so they backed down. Anyway, the kid is 16 now and has spent the last couple of years being coddled by her grandparents and spends all her time in her room and on her devices. With all the health issues with her grandpa, emotions and tensions are on the rise there. They are an OTT emotional drama-loving bunch anyway, except my calm bro. So after a few days of sulking and being a teenager, as grandma was headed out to go back to be with grandpa at the hospital for the day, she asked the kid to get out of bed, do the dishes, and do something with her room. Several hours later she returns, and kid is still in bed. Screaming match commences, ending up with slaps on both sides. Kid goes back to her room and calls her mom and tells her about mean grandma, mom calls the police. The police come and both parties accurately report what happened. They ask for ID, after seeing their ages they arrest the kid and carry her off to jail. Ex-SIL says she won't press charges, cop says it doesn't matter as it isn't up to her. In Florida they take senior abuse very seriously and she is over 65. First, yes, we all know that the kid isn't abusing the grandmother, but it is 100% appropriate for the authorities to see it that way because it is a big problem here. Anyway, apparently they have come to some arrangement that the kid is back home now on house arrest or some such with mandatory counseling. We are trying really hard to keep my brother from finding out about any of this because he will be devastated.

tl;dr Be grateful for boring lives!

Oh, my word, Laura. I'm so sorry for all of that drama. Good grief. I hope it all resolves well.

What a mess, Laura! I’m sorry all that is happening

Mmm, reuben