Hello all! I hope you are doing well. It's been kidney stone central here again, unfortunately. I passed a huge 5mm stone and then a bunch of littler stones have followed. Thankfully, the pain wasn't too awful, there was only one period of about three hours where I was in that 'I don't know what to do with myself' state. Otherwise it's been more ' ( Read more... )

Hello there! Happy Passover to those celebrating and happy almost Easter to those celebrating. I hope you will be doing so in a fashion most safe for your current state of vaccination and/or COVID caseload.

We're still really behind on vaccinations here. Despite the fact that my parents can now both be vaccinated, there is no vaccine to be given, ( Read more... )

Hello, world! Another check-in post.

Things are fine here. My area has tanked our COVID numbers again, and we've had several days with no new cases reported, so that's really great. Ontario is still in lockdown, though, and we don't know for how much longer we will remain in it. It's not too big a deal for us, who don't do a lot, but Pax is starting ( Read more... )

Hello, world! Happy Almost 2021. Good job on making it here! You did really well and I'm proud of you ( Read more... )

It was Pax's birthday yesterday! He's two years old now. Here's a picture of him, just after eating his birthday cookie:


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I am super wiped out. I've had a bad bout of stones again, thankfully nothing excruciating, but constant low-level pain that is very tiring and making it hard for me to sleep. It's very frustrating and I've been getting the pep talks from Mom that I was giving to her when she wasn't well ( Read more... )

Happy New Year and Happy New Decade! I hope everyone who celebrated winter celebrations had nice ones and those who didn't still enjoyed a good season. My Christmas was quite lovely and we've had some nice chillin' time in the aftermath ( Read more... )

It's Canadian Thanksgiving today, which is a good time to stop in and update my blog here. Things have been going pretty well, though today hasn't been a great day kidney stone-wise. In general, things are holding steady at 'okay' on that front, though. Definitely a better year than last year by a long shot! I'm still passing large stones, but I'm ( Read more... )

Finally got Paxie to sit still for photos today. Here’s Trouble at 10 months old:


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I keep meaning to post here more often and then a month and a half go by and I don't, but here I am! Still alive and kicking ( Read more... )