I hope realizing you are sick helps banish the imposter syndrome, shrift. And that recovery is swift and pies become available.

You have to have insurance, you have to pass a test. If someone gets hurt as a result of your use (or failure to manage it safely), you're liable.

At minimum.

Nothing scares me more than the possibility that states could be required to recognize other states' concealed carry laws. I am very very happy in my gun-controlled liberal bubble, thank you very much! I do not want gun nuts from outside the bubble to be allowed to come to my town and walk around armed.

At a family wedding a while back one of my cousins-in-law was griping that NY gun laws forced her to make arrangements for all the guns she normally takes with her on roadtrips rather than just storing them in her car with her luggage.

I hope realizing you are sick helps banish the imposter syndrome, shrift.

Yes, it is. I usually know I'm sick when I lose my ability to cope with stress. I'm working from home today in case I'm contagious.

I may have to go out in search of pie, though.

When you mentioned pork pie, I didn't realize you meant tourtiere.

I always mean tourtiere. (At least, always when I say "pork pie," but a lot of the rest of the time, too!)

Looks like this 9 80 scheduling thing is a go. I just need to figure out when I want those 9 hours to fall in my day. Hm.

My dad is at the ER, and for once it's not a heart attack. He said that Monday night he was in the kitchen getting his bedtime meds and a snack, and the next thing he knew, he was waking up on the kitchen floor because it was Tuesday morning and the phone was ringing. He says he doesn't remember passing out, but he has a bruise on his head. (And, really, he must have passed out, because what else would have happened, he just decided to sleep in the kitchen?)

He went to work Tuesday, and they said he was really unsteady and kind of slurring his speech, so he went to the pharmacy (he works at a grocery store) and they checked his BP and blood sugar, which were both normal (though he said that he ate some chocolate and drank some juice about an hour before they checked his blood sugar, so it could have been too low before that).

So he went home and just chilled out, rather than calling his doctor, because of course he did. He was off work yesterday and still didn't call his doctor, because of course he didn't.

But today he decided to go up to the ER to get checked out. So they did a head/neck CT scan, and they're running blood tests. It's possible he had a TIA (mini-stroke), but his speech is fine now -- he sounded totally normal -- and he's not having weakness on one side of his body. Though with a TIA, the symptoms can be more subtle than with a full stroke.

It's possible his blood sugar or BP dropped too low and that made him pass out. And it's also possible he might have accidentally doubled up on a medication that made him dizzy.

He sounded fine on the phone, though that's no guarantee of anything, but I feel like it at least rules out a major stroke. Hopefully it'll be something easily fixed, like lowering the dose of his BP medication or something.

Parents, man.

So he went home and just chilled out, rather than calling his doctor, because of course he did.

OF COURSE HE DID.

I'm glad it seems like it's nothing too serious.

Ha! I just talked to my brother. He said he called Dad yesterday, and Dad didn't mention anything about passing out in the kitchen. Because of course he didn't. Sheesh.

Hubby apparently had a couple of strokes that neither he nor I noticed, though I remember him sitting outside with some friends and having a bit more trouble than usual getting words correct. In a couple of hours, no sign of anything. We only found out after a bunch of tests a few years later.