Sister update: she's doing OK and will likely be discharged tomorrow. Home care nurse is set to come twice a day to change her dressing. She is freaking out about this and I'm not sure how to calm her. I don't think she realizes that, if she's not OK with a home healthcare nurse, the alternative is a skilled nursing facility. I really hope she stops trying to talk people out of this.

Has anyone said that to her explicitly?

So everything has worked out and balance has been restored.

Whew!

I don't remember when travel mugs came in vogue. I do remember my dad having to empty his car of the ceramic mugs that gradually collected from his commute back in the day, and he is generally a buyer of coffee mugs (they are probably his most favored souvenir and he loves museum & park gift shops) so he would have jumped on travel mugs as soon as he could, but I can't pinpoint when that might have been. We always had nalgene bottles from backpacking for carrying water around, I kinda think there might have been insulated coffee mugs with closable tops (but without the tapered bottoms to fit into car cupholders) fairly early in my life.

I am sporting my #sixseasonsandamovie shirt today, and delivering my Community DVDs to my mom (well, seasons 1-3, I haven't had a chance to even open season 4, yet. If she gets that far before I get to it maybe we will watch those commentary tracks together).

I used to drive stick and drink a diet coke and smoke on my way in to school, while taking out the hot rollers I had put in before I left. Make-up was done at home, though. Ridiculous. Now, I pull over if I have to touch my phone to fiddle with GPS -- a couple docus about the dangers of distracted driving, and I was convinced.

Also, the older I get, the more I mute just mute my phone. Amazing how quickly I got jaded once I finally had a Communicator for real. Maybe I'd be still be psyched if there were a spaceship to talk to.

Glad she is doing okay, Burrell. I hope the freaking out is temporary.

I hope all goes well with your sister, Burrell. Yeah, home health nurse is a way better option! I hope that notion gets through.

Has anyone said that to her explicitly?

Yeah. I can understand the freakout, but sometimes unappealing bad is better than worse lurking around the corner.

However, there is at least one nurse to maybe avoid...

So apparently someone made a post ABOUT Good Stuff that is being reblogged, but I can't find it! And we've doubled in followers.

I understand the freakout of.... "If I can't take care of it myself, I should be somewhere else!" I mean, it's why Grace was at Totally Kids for so long because the thought of her being vent dependent and at home and the possibility of intensive at home care was too overwhelming.

And skilled nursing facility is not necessarily so bad, either....just depends on what and where and how.

In other words, your poor sister, Burrell.

Right now, we have people over. The women are out in the backyard with alcohol and chatter. The children, all five, are in the living room with various distractions including screens and books. I'm hanging with the kids -- it's where my laptop is as well as my air conditioner.

Well, Jesse, your tumblr is AWESOME.