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Cags - you are in our prayers. I'm sorry
This happened. And I pray they figure it out.

Julie fell in Tuesday, breaking her arm. Two
Fractures up near her left shoulder. No surgery
And no cast. She us in agony. I stayed home
This week with her but return on sunday.
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sgt.null wrote:Cags - you are in our prayers. I'm sorry
This happened. And I pray they figure it out.

Julie fell in Tuesday, breaking her arm. Two
Fractures up near her left shoulder. No surgery
And no cast. She us in agony. I stayed home
This week with her but return on sunday.
8O So sorry about both misfortunes.

We're having a quiet Sunday. A guy came to cut the hair of the males in the compound. Stag of the dawn found a local guy who can cut white person hair, a rarity. (Yes, it actually is very different.) I'm reading The Time Traveler's Wife, just the tone of book I needed right now. (The last couple of books I've read were really violent thrillers.)
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Cagliostro wrote: So thank you again everyone, and I'll try to be around as long as possible. It all seems so surreal sometimes.
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Oh shit, I grabbed a drink before I logged on the Watch, and now I'm feeling all maudlin.

Cag, I cannot offer any words that will take away the pain of what you are going through. I can only say that we are here for you if you need us.
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I feel cranky.

In order to keep up with my work, I have to access the internet when everyone else in Africa is asleep. So I got up at 2:30 and have been at work for 3 hours and I'm ready to hit the pillows again. Mrrmmpph.
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Yeah, I'm a bit over this lock-down thing myself...

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Sorus wrote:And Halloween is vastly superior to Easter, though Easter does have some good candy. (Never actually celebrated the meaningful parts of Easter as the side of the family that raised me is Jewish, but chocolate bunnies...)
The malted mil eggs and the chocolate bunnies bring back fond memories, but I really don't like those nasty Peeps marshmallow candy...awful stuff! :-x
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Wishing you strength, power, comfort, and most of all a very positive outcome on your adrenal carcinoma situation, Cagliostro! I know we didn't talk together a lot when we were both at Elohimfest 2014, but I remember you as an upbeat, fun-loving person, very enjoy able to be around! Sometimes I was thinking that the party followed you around! Thinking of you, and trying to send positive energy your way!!
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Cagliostro wrote:Two of the worst things I have endured in my life I get to revisit this week. I have a cytoscope planned for Monday and the biopsy Tuesday. The endoscopy tomorrow is a piece of cake, as I get to sleep through it and wake up with a little soreness in my throat.
Pleas DO be around as long as possible, Cags, and thank you for the update on your situation. I hope those tests went smoothly for you!
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sgt.null wrote:Cags - you are in our prayers. I'm sorry
This happened. And I pray they figure it out.

Julie fell in Tuesday, breaking her arm. Two
Fractures up near her left shoulder. No surgery
And no cast. She us in agony. I stayed home
This week with her but return on sunday.
Hope she feels better really soon, sarge!
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Avatar wrote:Yeah, I'm a bit over this lock-down thing myself...

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I'm still sneaking out and hiking trails in the desert during times of the week when few are using them. And, when somebody comes along on one of those trails, I step off the trails and give other humans a wide berth, while trying to be careful not to step on any rattlesnakes hiding on the ground while I'm avoiding being physically close to people. (I have always believed in social distancing when it comes to me and those rattlesnakes!)


One thing this COVID-19 pandemic has changed about me, is that I'm fine with not shaking hands with people anymore! Image There's other ways to project friendliness besides shaking hands, after all! Say, maybe I'll just kiss everybody! :hnk: If that isn't a good alternative, then I can just give the "I'm listening to great heavy metal music" sign to everyone! :R Or maybe, from now on, just a simple "wave" will do! :wave:
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Cord - thank you. She isn't getting
Any relief from the meds. So the
Doctor is trying something different
Tomorrow. I suggested morphine ,
But she seems opposed.
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Cord Hurn wrote:
Avatar wrote:Yeah, I'm a bit over this lock-down thing myself...

--A
I'm still sneaking out and hiking trails in the desert during times of the week when few are using them. And, when somebody comes along on one of those trails, I step off the trails and give other humans a wide berth, while trying to be careful not to step on any rattlesnakes hiding on the ground while I'm avoiding being physically close to people. (I have always believed in social distancing when it comes to me and those rattlesnakes!)


One thing this COVID-19 pandemic has changed about me, is that I'm fine with not shaking hands with people anymore! Image There's other ways to project friendliness besides shaking hands, after all! Say, maybe I'll just kiss everybody! :hnk: If that isn't a good alternative, then I can just give the "I'm listening to great heavy metal music" sign to everyone! :R Or maybe, from now on, just a simple "wave" will do! :wave:
I'm all about the air hug these days when I see people I really like.

Other people get a dorky big wave rather than a handshake.

I decided I am NOT getting up at 2:30 again, ever in my life. Well, I can do it for a day and be all right, but day 2 I am useless protoplasm. Irritable cranky protoplasm.
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sgt.null wrote:Cord - thank you. She isn't getting
Any relief from the meds. So the
Doctor is trying something different
Tomorrow. I suggested morphine ,
But she seems opposed.
Can she ice? I hate ice, but it does do a job on injuries.
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The more phine the better... :D

Meh...it's uh...Thursday. :D My internet has been so slow these last few weeks it's not even funny.

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Well, government announced last night that a slow "phased" easing of the restrictions will begin as of 1st May, so that's good news I guess. :D

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deer of the dawn wrote:
sgt.null wrote:Cord - thank you. She isn't getting
Any relief from the meds. So the
Doctor is trying something different
Tomorrow. I suggested morphine ,
But she seems opposed.
Can she ice? I hate ice, but it does do a job on injuries.
She seems to be sleeping with the new med.
Our freezer is not food, so ice is iffy. We will
See how she feels upon waking.
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Cag -- Love and virtual |G from Batty, MagickMarker and me. Hang in there, dude.

Sarge -- please give Julie a gentle hug for me.

Everybody else -- :wave:

We are doing fine. All three of us have introvert tendencies, anyway, so sheltering in place has basically been SSDD for us, with the exception of never being able to find certain things at the grocery store (arrggh).

MagickMarker and I began working from home for our respective jobs on March 13. She continues to work from home, but I'm now on a two-month sabbatical. :R I was sufficiently fed up with my job and the commute that the first couple of weeks at home felt like a gift. Then it went back to SSDD 'til last Thursday night, when I packed up the firm computer and the firm iPhone and shoved them to the back of a closet.

I had a whole list of things that I was going to do during my sabbatical -- visiting museums and taking car trips to visit people -- but that's all out the window now, of course. I have enough craft projects backlogged to keep me from being bored, but it's going to be a different sabbatical than I'd planned. Thank the gods I hadn't planned a dream trip or anything.

I am still planning to go to to Santa Fe in late May/early June. (Jenn, Rigel and danlo -- heads up! :biggrin: ) Gonna take Amtrak there and back. I bought the tickets a year ago so I could have a roomette for the whole trip, because I am too old to sit up in coach for two nights straight, even without the virus complicating things. I've gotten a slew of emails from Amtrak - they're still running my route, but they recommend that you wear a mask in the stations and on the train (presumably I can leave it off while in the roomette). They're doing room service for meals. And I'm staying at the timeshare, so that should be fine.

The reason I need to go is to look for an apartment in Santa Fe, because I'm planning to retire from the firm July 6th. Although I've told them that if we're shut down so long that they can't recruit for my position, I'd extend my departure *as long as I can work remotely*. Our lease here is up at the end of July and I don't want to sign another one here. The attorneys I work for are on board with my proposal, but I hadn't heard back from Secretarial, yea or nay, before I went out on sabbatical.

I suppose I could tour apartments virtually and sign a lease long-distance, if it comes to that. I can cancel Amtrak without penalty, but it would suck to waste the week at the timeshare. Their availability for the rest of the year is pretty much nonexistant.

So! Lots of stuff up in the air these days. I'll be retiring in July or maybe not; I'll definitely be moving to NM but I don't know exactly where I'm living yet.

(Yes, Av, I know -- since I'm on sabbatical, I have no excuse for not checking in at the Watch. I'll do better. No, really, I will.)
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Life is boring so not much to say. I spend quite a bit of time in queues these days - one way of getting some fresh air I suppose. Have done a bit of gardening but our new dog, Rosie, keeps digging everywhere I weed so I'm going to put everything in pots and cover the soil with wood chips.

Ali, I do envy you going to Santa Fe. I'd love to visit but don't think I'll be crossing the Atlantic again. I still proudly wear the hoodie I bought in the dime store in SF and the T shirt I bought in Flagstaff.

Av and Stevie :wave: Cags and Sarge (for Julie) |G

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