Learn from my mistakes. Don't Google cow killer ant. Sounds painful. Sending ~ma for Grandma's recovery. It takes a really long time for someone her age to recover.

Yeah I'm happy that everyday seems to be an improvement. She's also back to her normal levels of confusion which is weird to say is a good thing but it's a good thing.

Cow killer ant are baaad.

I hope the effects of the cow killer ant sting do not last long. And it is good to hear that your grandmother is improving, if slowly.

The doctor's have said with my mother that it takes a week for each day in the hospital to get back to normal. I see the improvement every day, but it is super slow.

There's a woman on Ravelry having a hysterectomy today. The board is wishing her Happy Spaying Day.

Tim is having a sleep study done tonight -- a few weeks ago he did a home sleep study, where they give the patient all kinds of monitors that he wears while he sleeps. They decided to follow it up with a sleep study in the actual sleep center.

When my dad started having heart issues 25 years ago (stay with me, here), I would FREAK the fuck out every time something went wrong enough for him to go to the hospital. But after a couple of years, I got so used to it that it stopped freaking me out. (Or possibly I just got crisis fatigue because I couldn't handle it anymore).

That's kind of how I feel about Tim right now. I have crisis fatigue already. I'm still worried about his pulmonary test results, but he has to wait until October for an appointment with the pulmonologist. (In the interim, he's getting a CT scan of his lungs and an echocardiogram, so that the pulmonologist will have the results for that first appointment.) I worry, but we gotta wait. So my worry is kind of burned out.

Also, I know that LOTS of people do sleep studies, and that's a GOOD thing, because the study can lead to effective treatment. And that's the goal. (Although, honestly, if he would go to bed at 11 instead of 1, and would stop drinking coffee at 8 p.m., I think he would sleep better. [He did tell the sleep doctor what his sleep schedule is, and that he drinks coffee late, and the doctor basically said, "Yeah, don't do that." But the doctor still wants to do a sleep study to see if there's another factor like apnea or something.])

I'm glad he's taking care of himself by addressing his health care issues, but DAMN, is it a lot of appointments.

Anyway, he'll be at the hospital overnight tonight for the sleep study, so -- PARTY AT MY PLACE!

Steph, it's a lot. I hope the sleep study helps.

I wore a tank top to bed last night and woke up with one arm completely out of its armhole and the strap hanging down. I am considering getting a nanny cam to see what I get up to when I sleep.

Steph, fwiw, the sleep study I did was drama- and trauma-free, and the CPAP machine has made a big difference, I sleep much better. So, y'know, the worst case scenario is, he gets to wear a thing on his face at night. I call mine my Alien Face-Eater.

Having dealt with Daniel's three-week stay in the hospital a few years ago AND his two sleep-away sleep studies, I can say my feeling toward sleep studies is they are NBD. There might be some minor concern about how much sleep the guy gets in a strange place. And sure it's a little weird to not have him in the house. But I found it less worrisome than the times Daniel had to book a night in a hotel because blizzard conditions made it impossible for him to get home from work. And like Zenkitty pointed out, if the sleep study leads to solutions for better quality sleep it will be so worth it.

I don't see it as your wifely duty to do more than not point and laugh over strangers seeing his bedhead and pillowface wrinkles.

ETA: It is possible that pointing and laughing are part of your wifely duties. Depending.

Things I need to do today: cook a turkey, do something with a bunch of apples, clean both litter boxes, empty the trash from the upstairs bathroom.

Things I want to do today: Goof around online and read the new books I downloaded.