My surgery was Wednesday, December 8th, and IT WORKED. The kind anesthesiologist (who, despite his bedside/Zoomside manner which was a billion times better than the arrogant annoying surgeon's, told me he'd only ever assisted at two other surgeries using Trendelenburg with someone approximating my size, and neither had worked... at least Dr. Han ( Read more... )

I don't know.

My laparascopic total hysterectomy was scheduled for 12/1 and then rescheduled because the surgeon wanted me to get a CT Scan and then a fucking PET scan after the CT scan and couldn't she have fucking scheduled those before, with the MRI, like a trifecta? But no, because Kaiser doesn't like to spend money on tests that MIGHT not be ( Read more... )

1) I got (almost) involuntarily transferred from the school I have taught at since 2012, even though I've got 16 years seniority and tenure -- my best friend at the school was hired the SAME day, and we both have the multiple subject credential that means we were tailored to teach elementary school, though neither of us has ever done that and ( Read more... )

I am so angry right now, and so scared.

My school has been in distance learning since last March 17th, 2020, but recent concerted efforts by politicians and apparently their CDC stooges threaten to reopen schools that have been closed across the United States, including in my district.

As teachers are pointing out across the US and in Canada, there ( Read more... )

I think my family is kind of worrying about me in this whole mess, because a) I've had pneumonia three times, bronchitis twice, pleurisy (how is that even a thing, after about 1890?) once; b) age (I'll be 54 in May); c) underlying conditions, baby, from Type 2 Diabetes to low-level asthma; and d) the last not-as-apocalyptic rodeo, I actually got ( Read more... )

But it's early in January -- tomorrow I go back to school, which my brain is still refusing to accept -- and the few sort of related things I want to be working on for myself... well, they are coinciding with January. So it FEELS New Years' Resolutionary, but I don't want that. I have such an allergic reaction, emotionally, to doing things that ( Read more... )

Day 4: What do you do to keep yourself from mentally/emotionally/physically stagnating?I read a lot. A LOT. Generally friends and people I barely know look at my like I am crazy if I tell them I read several books a week. I am curious about just how many I actually read, so I decided to actually USE Goodreads this year, and enter every single ( Read more... )

They're fascist.

Okay, if they're just there for those who want to take advantage of them, like time off to exercise, or money off at a health club, or expanded choices in a lunch room, cool. Once they exact penalties for non compliance, they're fascist.

What an odd subject. I wish I knew where they got these. The repetitions convince me that it is not just farming, say, google searches ( Read more... )

Those were two instant topics, and they are sadly relevant. I MEANT to get a flu shot this year, I really did. I got one last year. But yesterday I had the weirdest, quickest onset of a flu ever. I'd had some joint aches and sore shoulders and neck for a day or two, but I ignored it and went to all my meetings on Friday. Then, comrade ( Read more... )