Requesting kitty~ma for Teddy. We took our cats to the vet last weekend for blood tests to make sure they hadn't been caught up in the tainted pet food. Good news -- they weren't. Bad news -- Teddy lost a lot of weight, has early stage kidney disease, and goes back in for more tests on Monday to see if he has anything worse as well.

Teddy update (and am I the only one with news right now?) --

Kidney round instead of kidney-shaped. Kidney infection. Calcium deposits in kidney. Kidney function at 1/3 of normal, but blood work normal, so not bad for 13-year-old cat with kidney infection.

In Teddy's immediate future -- antibiotics and visit to specialist (on the 25th) for a sonogram.

So, not wonderful news, but not bad, considering.

Interview~ma requested for tomorrow. I need all the help I can get for a day that will go from 8:30am to 8:30pm. Of course, it can't really be worse than today, when I almost missed my plane because the airport parking lots were full and I arrived to such snow and wind that I promptly spun out on the streets of Minneapolis.

Requesting health~ma for my grandmother and coping ~ma for my mom. March got one in under the wire: my gram fell last Friday and broke her wrist badly (multiple fractures, etc.). She was in the hospital over the weekend, had surgery on Monday that went well, and was released on Tuesday.

Apart from the healing, that should have been the end of the story. Except that she apparently contracted the Robo-virus while in the hospital and is now too sick to go to the doctors. Mom is dealing with this largely on her own, and her email updates are breaking my heart. They may be heading back to the ER this evening. If it gets any worse, I may be buying a plane ticket.

Update on Gram: Mom took her to the ER and they've tested and hydrated her. She's doing better and is going home with my mom. Looks like a nasty virus on top of her recovery from the wrist surgery. And they say hospitals aren't as generous as they used to be! Sigh. Anyway, thanks for the ma. The prognosis looks pretty good for now.

Well the apocalypse hit me on Monday and after being hauled out of my Doctors office on a guerny to the ER, xrayed, stabbed with things, then sent to the hospital for a glorious weeks stay, I got sent home with a bag of pills and an air compressor to be delivered. None of it free.

But I am better now and releasing any ~ma I might have had back to you.

Marty

Thank you to the Buffistas for the lovely nursing camisoles! Since I do nothing but sleep and pump breast milk and visit the hospital, it's the perfect top.

Also if you have any extra energy to send, Grace is having surgery on Monday at 2:00 PM PDT to close a hole in her heart. Noah may also have the surgery on the same day, but we won't know until tomorrow.

Hi! So, after some serious deliberation, I've decided to accept York's placement offer for their philosophy masters program in the fall. It was a hard choice, but I'm happy with it, and I sent off the initial paperwork today. The course starts in September, so I have the next few months to prepare to move eastwards, with a brief Stateside interlude.

This gives all you people with vacation thoughts and discretionary incomes time to plan visits to come see me. I'm just sayin'.

For those of you who are fans of B-Movies, the latest installment of the B-Movie Bastards Podcast is up. I'm one of the hosts.

The website is here: [link]

White Castle has posted my ads onto youtube. They misspelled "theremin":

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