Holy fuck, Jess, Gothamist is saying that there may have been a tornado in your neighborhood!

Nothing but the 7 running at my station and it was over a 30 minute wait to get on one of those. I am home, at least for the short term.

mac is being a righteous PITA this morning to both me and his grandma.

Yikes!

my eyelids are painfully swollen (epicanthic fold gone wild) as is my throat

ita, between that and the itching, are you sure it isn't a reaction to the dilaudid?

Oy, ita, is all I can think to say. I hope you get some relief after a crazy day and that having your family here is a good time.

Stay dry and safe! people of New York.

I am all at once a bit stoned on cold meds and hopped up on Caffeine. My system doesn't know what to do with itself.

ita, I hope things are looking better today. Or, failing that, that you get a Bobbi-clone at the next change of nurse shifts.

New Yorkers, stay dry!

It's supposed to be 102 here today. Again. This is not something that should come with an "again"!

ita, I wish you relief, for reals.

Don't drown, NYCistas! No Apocalypse before the Horsemen arrive...

It's also going to be wicked hot here, prediction of 96 for today.

Ways To Know It's Fair Time in the Midwest: A radio show this morning was playing a rousing game of "Will It Lick Me?" (Host went to the fair yesterday, meets the petting zoo, caller predicts whether or not he got licked in the face.) Hot times, people.

Okay, so it does seem to be the apocalypse. Interesting.

Bobbi, the itching is definitely dilaudid--I get that every ER visit. It's usually evened out by the Benadryl, but I'm only on PCA for the dilaudid, so it gets out of whack (Hmm. I need an etymology for that expression (can you have etymology for expressions?)) The swelling is new, and I've definitely had more dilaudid than this in a shorter period, so who the hell knows?

He's going back to see if I can get another Benadryl shot.

I am majorly apologising to the current nurse. My standard rhythm is to bitch, whimper, get relief, apologise. These are people I want on my side.

Hmm. So much for not using this as a blog.

Oh, two other missives from here: I bought two large styrofoam planes. They've had a workout.

Sunday night, we went to an old school drive-thru. Double features and all. Screen set in a swamp. Dirt lot,lawn chairs, illegal booze, teenagers necking in the back seat in the back rows, train track behind the projection booth, the whole bit. Of course a train came through at the climax of both films (missable films, one that pissed me off, but whatever. Drive-thru! In a swamp! ) Was sorta fun, even if I could've done without the Simpsons and that damned latest Adam Sandler film. Uhg. But I played with T through most of that. He was much less offensive, even with baby puke.

It's supposed to be 102 here today. Again. This is not something that should come with an "again"!

Same here and I wholeheartedly agree. It was muggy when I took the dogs out at 5:00 am. That's just wrong. And our air quality has been lousy, too.