Yay Cindy!

Yay, Cindy! I was just thinking about your kid, and how lucky he was that most of the bad stuff he went through was pre-Pandemic.

I'm really not doing too well in the heat, but amazingly I got some quality sleep last night, so perhaps the meds are starting to help after a week (though they say 6 weeks to full effect.)

Timelies all!

I'm glad your son is doing much better, Cindy.

I am going in to work all five days this week. (One of the techs is on vacation all week, and another person will be working from home Thursday and Friday.)

What a beautiful update, Cindy. Many wishes for continued improvement.

Lovely good news, Cindy! What a relief for your family.

That's great, Cindy!

Yay for good news Cindy!

Dana, I got woken up by something this morning out of a dream about an episode of Agents of SHIELD where they found Future Coulson's body. I managed to get back to sleep, only for my alarm to wake me out a dream where I was running away while my mother destroyed the world. (?!? 75+ is not the age you expect someone to go all Dark Phoenix at.) I felt really guilty because Dad and my sister were trying to stop her while I just casually split.

So, y'know, easy sleep is rare all around.

Thanks, everybody.

Karl, it's so nice to see you here!

Hec, how is JZ doing? I don't see her much on Twitter (which could just be Twitter's algorithm at work). Has there been any resolution on a school for Matilda?

Yay, Cindy! I was just thinking about your kid, and how lucky he was that most of the bad stuff he went through was pre-Pandemic.

We keep saying that, Theo. I am so grateful.

sj, I never used a white noise machine, so I don't have a personal recommendation. I did a quick search and found some battery operated ones on Amazon. Some didn't even have night lights. This one has different sounds and a timer. [link]

I'm sorry ltc isn't sleeping. Do you think it's due to the shutdown and how that's affected her routine?

I'm not sleeping either, and I was at home anyhow, but everything is different and it just throws me off.

Thanks y'all for the CVS recommendation. I called my insurance company and they confirmed it will be fully covered even though I am far out of my preferred provider network (like, 3k miles out of it) I have an appointment on Wednesday for drive through brain stem swabbing with results in 6-10 days. Of course that's only one day before mom will be home from the hospital and I'll be unable to continue distancing at that point....but i can continue masking in common areas of the house for another week and skip any day trips to infect Dad if the result were to come back positive. And of course it would be reassuring to have a negative test result before getting on a couple of planes August 10th.

I keep thinking about Mira Grant's Newsflesh series and the rapid viral load tests that characters take before entering any building. Sometimes at multiple checkpoints. How reassuring it would be right now to be able to do a quick finger stick and watch the lights on a disposable testing unit cycle through red and green and finally settle on green meaning that you can continue on with your life. I mean, I'd rather not with the zombie apocalypse, but the rapid testing procedure sounds pretty great right about now.

It's so insane that you are at 6 to 10 days there, and we are getting results in 24 to 48 hours here in Los Angeles. 6 to 10 days is borderline useless.