Good news, Scrappy! Now you can tell him he's on rat poison! My neighbor was on the same, and there were all sorts of bad jokes I shared with his wife about going down to Home Despot... Made even funnier by the fact she accidentally gave him double doses of his antinausea and none of his painkillers after the surgery that caused all this.

Good news, Scrappy!

Sara, you're really lucky not to be on an asbestos trial. My friend was on one that took months and was apparently both boring and horrible. Yikes.

On the accidental racism front, when I was working at the day care center, one time I had to deal with a kid who didn't get black and white as descriptions of skin colors, and described himself as "plain." Yeah, no, kid. Sorry. I know it doesn't make sense when you're just learning colors, but still.

Glad for good news, Scrappy.

I am emphatically not displeased to not be on that jury. And I've almost finished a Julia Alvarez, which was surreal to read in court (Saving the World- about vaccine campaigns and do-gooders. I always manage to pick'em.)

I am glad to hear good news, Scrappy!

Home from the hospital WITH the DH. They were worried it was a floating clot and would have needed a filter to keep it from migrating to his lungs. They looked at it with sooper seekrit machines, but it turns out it is a stay-put kind of clot

Yay for stay-put clot!

They upped his Coumadin

Did the doctor or pharmacy give him a list of foods that can interact with Coumadin? There are some things, like green tea and (IIRC) dark leafy greens, that do significantly interact.

(I know that you and J. are smart people and know about drug/drug interactions, but Coumadin has some noteworthy food/drug interactions, and I tend to fret overmuch, so I just wanted to mention it.)

yay for Scrappy's DH being home.

and yay for Jilli mentioning Adam Ant. It reminded me that i needed to send links to a 70+ year old friend that came across his name in a cross word puzzle

Coumadin is a god-awful, effective drug. Blood tests every few days for, I think, liver function. Plus vitamin K interactions. When the doc said he was putting Hubby on Coumadin, also known as Warfarin, I freaked. "You're giving my husband rat poison??" Doc was dismayed, "Oh, you know what that is." "Yes, I know what it is! And I know how it kills rats!" I made him give the full, "the patient and family have brains" explanation.

Clots where they don't belong are bad.... (though clots when necessary are good).

Grace has surgery again tomorrow. Which blows as I don't have money this month nor time off. Yay furlough days?

We also received a note from Grace's teacher. The AAC assessor (who we requested to see Grace because we need help getting her to communicate more effectively...we know she CAN communicate, but she has no language right now) had a big suggestion. She said we should get rid of the trache and she'll just start talking.

OKAY.

Yes, I acknowledge if she didn't have a trache she would learn to talk faster. Just like she'd learn to swim faster. And maybe she might learn to eat faster too.

But seriously? You don't want to get the kid an iPad with communication software but you want us to pull her trache out.

Sigh.

And this woman works for the same outfit I do. Makes me distrust my colleagues.

Good lord, Kat.

My friend has two boys with hearing problems who basically acquired no speech or language their first couple of years (he and his wife adopted them as toddlers). They're trying to fight the insurance company who won't pay for speech therapy because the coverage is for recovery of speech. Since they never properly learned...