You should be able to text one person and they should handle the rest.

I don't mind sending a group text, since they're easy to do. I'm just not on board with a bunch of different methods of communication. (The aunt who wanted me to email tried to explain it by saying "I read my email on my phone -- can't you send email from your phone?" And I deserve a medal for NOT saying "I send texts from my phone -- can't you read texts on your phone?" All I said was "I'll send a text when surgery is over -- if that's a problem, call [Other Aunt] in the afternoon and she can tell you what the text said." Which, in retrospect, is just as snarky as my first option, but I don't actually care.)

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.

What -t said! Also, please update when you can, Zen.

Teppy, group text is the best method and you are a good daughter for keeping the others in the loop. I'll be sending the quick and effortless surgery~ma. In lieu of text I'll wait patiently for an update here.

CamelCase. Huh, learn something new every day.

Your family, Tep. How do they not understand that you might have something else on your mind than each of their preferred methods of notification? Like your mom, that you are kindly notify them about. For example.

You are being very patient with them is how it looks from over here.

That doesn't sound very strategic, Toddson.

blood in side ma~~~~

surgery ma~~~

relatives think before you ask ma~~~~~

and Camel case makes no sense

Our costs for this service have doubled and more and more people are unsubcribing or classifying anything from us as spam.

My org's IT department sends status updates to everyone for every service they offer. So if a database used by some small subset of the 16th Century Luxembourg Cultural Studies department goes down, all 26,000 members of the organization get an email about it. And another email when it's fixed. One day I got over 10 emails, none of which covered services that I ever use.

It took me longer than I like to admit to set up a rule automatically moving status emails from IT out of my inbox to a special folder. If I have trouble accessing a needed database, I figure I can check the folder then.

Tep, I have a cluestick you could use to communicate with your family ... In the meantime, strength and calm.

Zen! I hope this is resolved quickly.

CamelCase sounds like something the Empress would have for a round-the-world-voyage. "Oh, and in my CamelCase I need at least three flasks, my Wonder Woman bracelets, and my ruby slippers."

We have a tech support company and every time I make a request I'll get a string of emails, each saying that the ticket has been assigned to a person ... but I'll get up to five, each saying that it's been passed on to another person. They don't actually DO anything, they just pass it on.

As an extreme of CamelCasing, years ago I worked for a group that had hired the son of one of the higher-ups. He was an aspiring actor and felt that much of the office work was beneath him. When assigned to do a big job of data entry, he, um, AMUSED himself by using alternate lower case and upper case letters - as in ThE qUiCk BrOwN fOx JuMpEd OvEr ThE LaZy DoG. So someone had to go in and redo it in something resembling normal text (not me!).

I like Amy's version of CamelCase.

Just had an unexpected win with a Faccebook "friend" from high school admitting he doesn't actually have good sources for information on Planned Parenthood's services. Hooray for speaking up!

each saying that it's been passed on to another person. They don't actually DO anything, they just pass it on.

I provide some tech support and we have three levels - tickets come in and get escalated to me and if I can't help, they get escalated to the development team. Sometimes the dev team and I go back and forth trading information and the ticket gets passed back and forth. I am SO GLAD the user doesn't get notified with each change.

-t, YAY for "friend" actually using his brain. Now if he will think critically...the world might be a better place.

Timelies all!

Health~ma, Zen!

Surgery~ma for your mom, Steph.