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Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Laura - Apr 01, 2020 11:14:56 am PDT #19097 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

Omg. My little sister just broke her ankle.

Oh dear! Having any medical issue right now is just fraught.

Yeah, why not pause the interviewing, if things are so up in the air?

The everything up in the air part of this is just awful. For everyone all at the same time.

My son tells me they have 6' blue squares on the floor in his grocery that are supposed to guide shoppers to distance properly. Not surprisingly they aren't paying a whole lot of attention to the signs. It is like 50/50 out there with people who are masked and gloved and wiping down stuff, and those who seem oblivious completely.

I ran out of dog food because my autoship was running late so I texted a neighbor that would surely have plenty. I left a solo cup on his front step with wine in it covered with a plastic bowl. He took the wine, filled the bowl with dog food and left it for me. We agreed to a rain check on hugs.


DavidS - Apr 01, 2020 11:14:59 am PDT #19098 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

How are things with the Zmayhem today?

We're bored. Matilda is dying a streak in her hair.

JZ's temp was under 99 yesterday. Her father is stable, but he's been on the vent for 6 days now.

I want to take a shower, but I can't because I have a package out for delivery that I have to sign for. And they didn't ring our fucking bell yesterday! WE WERE HOME!

That's the only thing we've got going for ourselves right now is we are home to accept deliveries, and Fed-Ex fucked that up.


DavidS - Apr 01, 2020 11:15:58 am PDT #19099 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

And can I just note that Deb, and Juliana and Martin have all been absolute champs and kept us in supplies (along with help from our neighbors).

So appreciative to have Buffistas nearby in times of trouble.


JZ - Apr 01, 2020 11:19:28 am PDT #19100 of 30019
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

{{{Cindy, Cindy's DH, his aunt}}}

Things are not good here. I am not being blunt in public, at all, but I don't think my dad is leaving the hospital. His attending and I went over his past couple of years of records together over the phone today (he is cagey about sharing health info and has been less than forthcoming with any of us); she knew he already has COPD but not the extent of it (his GP is in the city where he's hospitalized but the COPD specialist is here in San Francisco in a different hospital system--the records are shared, but only passively, so unless someone at one location knows to look for a specific record from the other it's not all immediately obvious to everyone), and neither of us knew that his last full PFT's over a year ago showed that his lungs were only at 31% of normal function.

She now thinks that if he's able to be extubated at all he will likely immediately need a trach, and that will likely be a permanent thing. And all of that is predicated on that first "if."


Topic!Cindy - Apr 01, 2020 11:23:52 am PDT #19101 of 30019
What is even happening?

Oh JZ, I'm sorry.


Dana - Apr 01, 2020 11:26:33 am PDT #19102 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I'm sorry, JZ.


Tom Scola - Apr 01, 2020 11:29:38 am PDT #19103 of 30019
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Well, shit, JZ. I'm so sorry.


bennett - Apr 01, 2020 11:44:06 am PDT #19104 of 30019

Seconding the "well shit", JZ. I'm very sorry.


Jesse - Apr 01, 2020 11:57:40 am PDT #19105 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm so sorry to hear that, JZ. Your family is really going through it right now.


-t - Apr 01, 2020 12:04:06 pm PDT #19106 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm so sorry, JZ