Got to visit one of the students in the hospital, this evening. The other wasn't feeling much like visitors today. Sadly, they have rooms in opposite towers, so they can't even visit each other. Student #1 was in pretty good spirits. He was a little, not sure the right word, astonished (??) that it happened to him, and when it did. And then that it happened to his classmate. So we chatted a bit how sometimes your body reminds you what's really important in life. Later, he mentioned his frustration with how slow he was recovering. I reminded him, his body isn't digital. He can't tweak the settings, to increase the healing rate. He can't bargain one activity to make the pain go away. It seemed to help a bit. I reinforced, classes and projects will always be there, and take the time he needs to heal right. We will see if he listens. He's a very anxious person, always got his foot on the gas, to get things done. Sitting still and healing could very well be the hardest thing he's ever done. His parents were there too. Flew out from Chicago to be with him. Real sweet folks. It looks like he will be discharged in the morning. Not sure how much more time the second student will be in for.

Appendix. It's a mystery, but when it goes, it does a lot of collateral damage in there.

I saw nothing in what you said he wrote to keep him from liking what you posted. He was lambasting the idiots who misuse the guns.

Huh. I didn't read it that way. It was a meme he shared, not something he wrote himself. It sounded to me like it was a folksy folktale expansion of "guns don't kill people..." rhetoric.

Ugh. Roommate just texted me saying her stay elsewhere has been extended 30 more days (she was supposed to be back 3/9) and might be permanent. Grr. Do not want to look for a new roommate again already! (She did sign a year lease, but I don't think I could really hold her to it)

Appendix. It's a mystery, but when it goes, it does a lot of collateral damage in there.

Very true. It ranges from easy fix to extraordinarily extensive and painful damage. I hope the students have quick recoveries.

Sorry about the roommate woes, meara. I find the unsettled and not knowing time to be the worst part.

Very true. It ranges from easy fix to extraordinarily extensive and painful damage. I hope the students have quick recoveries.

I was surprised, that the second student, whose appendix did not burst, still had collateral damage. Crazy.

Good god, you guys, I haven't gotten a haircut since July. (I had to check Quicken to verify that.) That's...well, that's what happens when you're fundamentally lazy and no longer work across the street from your salon. I look like a Yeti.

But I just made an appointment for Monday. My stylist will probably faint when I walk in. Hell, she probably thinks I got mad and found a new stylist after she had surgery in August and couldn't do my wedding hair. Well, once she sees me, she'll know that isn't true. Yeti is maybe not my best-ever look.

I know I am not alone in wanting photographic proof of yeti status.

No one can get a picture of the yeti!

...right? We don't have cable, so I have no idea if the guys on the Bigfoot hunters show have gotten selfies with Bigfoot or what.

I'm sure the stylist will be happy to see you.

DH is already snoring and I am headed to bed too. Can't even make it to 10pm. Of course I will be up early. It still surprises me that I ended up early to bed early to rise girl. Never saw that one coming in my earlier years.

Signed, old lady, not as sexy as Scrappy.

Dual Appendix update:

Student #1 got to go home today, well, back to his campus housing, he's not flying back to Chicago area. So, he's in good spirits. His apartment is on the 3rd floor, so, I don't expect him to be out n about for a couple days. Sounds like he's moving slow n gingerly.

Student #2 is still in the hospital. I got to visit him tonight. He's in good spirits. Ready to go home. They are keeping him in, until he can break wind or move a bowel. Poor fella. He's a rather muscular guy, and he's saying his energy is pretty tapped. Not looking forward to the climb up to his apartment on the second floor, but, wanting to get out of the hospital.