Dammit, I hate writing these: [link]

I'm about to post a link to a companion piece, with huge honking trigger warnings, in Great Write Way, because ... catharsis, I think.

Drew and I have been in the ER since about 5:30 this morning due to intense gut pain. With his history, we didn't want to take any chances. It looks like it's a kidney stone. Bad news because intense pain, but good news because anything that isn't pancreatitis is good news. Still, relief from pain-ma would be appreciated

ETA: We are home. Big ol’ stone, so urologist appointment and possible treatment to follow, but very relieved that it’s not something more serious (though I’m very sorry that it’s something so painful).

Daniel and I just got back from the veterinarian with Harvey - learning how to give subQ fluids. During his regular check-up they found he is in chronic kidney failure. Age-related, as he is 17. Kitty~ma requested, please and thank you.

I am a Bayista.

So I have just completed a short book that intend to see published as a free e-book. It is only 50,000 words, but thanks to my eyesight, what should have been done in six weeks took close to six months. Its current working title is "No Hair Shirts Energy Policy for Greece".

One of the reasons I've been so dark grey, is that pretty much every minute I'm not doing chores or medical stuff or working out has been spent on this book. My TV watching has been confined to during work outs, or when my eyes are too dilated from medical treatments to interact with a computer screen. (You can follow a tv show pretty well just seeing fuzzy outlines of the characters and scenery, though I'm sure I miss a lot of nuance.) I've also rationed my time on social medai pretty stringently. I think the result is good; I could spend another six months editing it, but I think it is fairly urgent to get out.

I'm sitting in a videoconference suite downtown waiting for my interview. Wish me luck, or at least not to completely melt down.

~ma, please, for PMM. Princess Tickybox had a seizure, and in PICU. She's had an MRI, and is going to be getting an EEG shortly.

I'll post any info as I get it.

If anyone has the knowledge to figure out why my keyboard won't work correctly, if you could call me. I've done the usual attempts, using my phone, but the problem is so weird, I hoped someone would have the solution.

If anyone has any possibilities, you can ask/ answer them in Tech, where I will put my phone number and readact it later. Thanks, all. I really really really need to be able to type on my laptop.

ETA Never mind. I have to send it back to HP to be fixed, it is a hardware problem. Which means I will be without my laptop for almost two weeks and I am just dropped. Come to think of it. Anyway, thanks!

This morning we welcomed Jane Evelyn Doyle into our family! Everyone is doing great. I'm exhausted but elated. We may even get to go home as soon as tomorrow.

There's a picture up on my FB page, and no doubt more to come.

I threw this out on FB but wanted to share this here too. For anyone who followed my afghan project, I posted every step to keep myself accountable which really helped me complete the project.

Now I'm starting a new project. I asked folks on FB to pick a number between 1 and 100 and I had about 40 people choose a number. The new project has 100 different, small patterns and I want to make each and then share them with my friends. If you are interested, please send a note to my profile addy with your address. You can pick a number and if it hasn't been picked already, I'll put you in for that slot, otherwise I'll pick a number for you at random.