Wow, amyparker! Congratulations, I guess? Sounds like quite a story.
23 and me found another distant but not that distant cousin for me, and this one has my mother's maiden name. My mom is convinced we should not be actually related to that branch of the family (my grandfather was adopted by my great grandmother's second husband and took his last name but her first husband was on his birth certificate). Per the data gathered, cousin's family and my family both passed through Weed which would have been a pretty small community so maybe we are related some other way and the last name is a coincidence.
I haven't touched anyone since early/mid March. The only times it bothers me is the couple of times I have been to visit my parents (all of us masked and maintaining distance if inside, mostly masked and maintaining distance outside as well) and I couldn't give them a hug when I got there or when I left. I do appreciate that Miss Kitty is pretty cuddly.
Timelies all!
It's been one of those days. Mr. S didn't go to sleep until late(after 10) last night, and has been extra annoying for most of the day today.
Oh, msbelle, soooooooo much drama!
I'm sorry, Sheryl.
Thank you, amyparker for the info for Connie.
I am at a school of nursing that already does a lot of online education (not virtual- true, thought out online education), but the newest nurses still really need to do labs and clinical. So we are doing all of our lecture type content online and figureing out how to do labs with masks and face sheilds and everything. They are back at clinical right now seeing patients, again with PPE.
amyparker, you did a good thing for connie and whoever may be looking for her as part of their family.
...nope. Still have a visual image of cartoon me fleeing from genetic testing. I'd have had a pleasant, quiet life had it not been for family,fore and aft. Don't want more.
Still have a visual image of cartoon me fleeing from genetic testing.
Same, but because it's the one tinhat conspiracy theory I actually entertain: I worry the data will be sold to whatever company dangles enough money in front of the testing companies. In other words, I watched the movie
Gattica
and went, "Yep, that's pretty plausible".
Yeah, everything about this new wide-spread genetic testing creeps me out.
That reminds me that we need to do my MIL's genetic stuff. She was adopted when she was 2 and never has found her family. She is 76, so parents are unlikely, but she would love to know if she has any siblings out there.
While I appreciate the privacy concerns and would never say "everyone should do this", I wanted to be able to tell my grandmother what had happened to her father before she died, and this was the only way to confirm it.
Now I will eat my lunch before it gets cold.
