Ha, just got an email that they are extending the deadline to submit photos to Halloween morning. Somebody must have complained.

Well fuck. Twelve weeks is the verdict. Which is January before I can even START putting weight on it. Which means I can't drive for even longer. Fuck.

Timelies all!

Ugh. At the end of dinner, Mr. S started throwing things. First was the tray from his dinner, followed by pieces of fruit and his sippy cup. The capper was the 6-pack of Snapple bottles, which resulted in one bottle breaking and getting peach tea all over the floor.(There were 4 bottles in the pack, so the other three went in the fridge.) Sigh, life with a 3 year old....

Yuck, meara. I know 12 weeks seems forever, but it is super important to heal completely. I'm sorry.

Yikes, Sheryl! Maybe he has a future as a big league pitcher?

Oh Sheryl. Three is so much more challenging than two in my book. I think someone here calls three-year-olds threenagers.

You know, my boys are 22 and 18 now. They still eat their cereal dry because (a) there will be no changes (they're both like that); and (b) I never put the milk in their cereal when they were two, three, or four, because I feared the wet toss. My daughter started putting milk on her cereal probably at five or six, but my sons got stuck in their weird food ways early.

With the NSAIDs it may be a small thing? With a fracture vs surgery, or vs putting in pins and stuff?

It could be. I know after my kids had their wisdom teeth out, they weren't supposed to have Ibuprofen for 24 or 48 hours (I can't remember). After that it was fine. But where you've had such big surgery, that makes sense. I can't remember if my oldest could have Ibuprofen right after they put the screws in his shoulder. It was too long ago.

Well fuck. Twelve weeks is the verdict. Which is January before I can even START putting weight on it. Which means I can't drive for even longer. Fuck.

Oh no! I'm so sorry, meara.

I don't remember what city you're in (are you in Seattle now, too?), but some city's transit authorities have paratransit services.

For instance, Boston's MBTA has The Ride. [link]

I don't know if these services available to people with temporary disabilities or not. I have the impression most cities have a similar service. I hope you can find a work-around that isn't too much of a pain in the ass.

Meara, that's awful. I can't imagine how frustrated you must be.

Dang, meara. That's a long-ass time. I'm so sorry.

Jesse, if you want to text with Red2Blue here is a link to get set up. They are much more organized and together than the group I am texting with today.

bit.ly/Red2BlueTexting

Thanks!

So, I think that Insane Clown thing is something another department is putting together in the cubicles, not an actual event out in the wild.

The Insane Clowns are coming from INSIDE THE BUILDING!!!

Hey, Megyn Kelly has learned that blackface is wrong and she feels really bad and cried about it so the world has been fixed.

Oh good lord, I don't even want to know what I missed.

Normally I go for naproxen because my migraine doc told me to take it

I am taking note of this. Other OTC options haven't helped.

Oof, meara. That is a while.

naproxen

Add to the library of anecdotes:

I tried Aleve (naproxen sodium) once when I had a plantar fasciitis episode. I couldn't tell that it made any difference to the pain in my foot, but the next day I did notice a sudden onset of two numb areas on my skin -- one at the right corner of my mouth, and one on the pad of my right thumb. It was very odd, and a little scary. The numbness went away after about half a day.

The Insane Clowns are coming from INSIDE THE BUILDING!!!

Yes. And somehow that's better. Sometimes my brain makes no sense at all.

Twelve weeks is a long time, meara. I'm sorry.