Health~ma, Zen. I hope they get the bleeding problem under control quickly.

Surgery~ma for your mother, Steph. And back-off~ma for the various cousins who can't be bothered to check a text.

I also send you calming~ma through all of this.

I am not very calm as of today. I was pretty good at logic-ing my way through this until now. And all the logic is still true, but my lizard brain is like "NOPE PANIC NOW IGNORE WORK AND PANIC."

And everyone who doesn't want a text will just have to wait. (I'm just expecting that Facebook Cousin will start sending me FB messages around noon tomorrow. And I'm going to delete them.)

Report them as spam and see if facebook will delete the account. Then she'll HAVE to find things out via another method!

Yikes Zen! Wishing no bleeding and industrious marrow your way!

Fuck that noise, Tep, your relatives can organize their own post-operation alternative communications tree after your text. That is so not your responsibility. Surgery~ma for your ma.

I hope you are done with that meeting Dana.

I'm off to get an orthotic for my tendinitis (really, that's how you spell it? Ok, autocorrect, if you say so, but it looks wrong). I left work early yesterday because I got a same day appt with my doctor, and I'll be in late today because the podiatrist doesn't open until 9 and closes at 5 and closes for lunch, and I'll be leaving early tomorrow to get to the airport on time and taking the rest of the week off for my niece's graduation. It's barely like working, but not at all like a vacation.

Blood-on-the-inside-of-your-body~ma, Zen! Be fruitful and multiply hemoglobin! Or welcome your new immigrants, I suppose. Fill those arteries and veins up somehow.

Heh, and I also have an author emailing me to say "I need to speak with you over the phone. Give me your phone number so that I can call after I am out of the OR." And here's the thing(s): (1) 9.75 times out of 10, whatever issue the author has does not require a phone call to resolve; and (2) I'm not giving my cell number to a stranger (though, to be fair, the author doesn't know I work from home and probably thinks they would be calling the AMA offices).

We have a new "director of strategic communications" who's gone a bit overboard with sending mass emails ... like one every day and two on some days. And a lot of them are done on a must-have-now basis (like today). And she has to see what the final looks like before she can settle on the final language, appearance, etc. And she's not fond of giving me all the materials (image files, lists, information) I need to get them out. Our costs for this service have doubled and more and more people are unsubcribing or classifying anything from us as spam. But hey ... what do I know? I'm just the peon here to serve her whims.

Zen, I hope they get your bleeding issue figured out. ~ma for you.

Steph, lots of ~ma for your mom.

Camel case is BULLSHIT.

YES. Also, while I use Pooh Case extensively in my personal writing style, it IS NOT APPROPRIATE for technical documentation! And if you absolutely have to do it, do it consistently!

(Yes, I am thinking of setting one of my program managers on fire.)

Zen, I hope things are figured out quickly and easily!

Teppy, tons of surgery ~ma for your mother. Your family is being unreasonable. You should be able to text one person and they should handle the rest.