Still on baby watch. Although she broke her water mid day yesterday she really hadn't progressed much by midnight so her doctor stopped the Pitocin and went home for the night. Told her to get some well needed rest. Yawn. I expect this morning we will have baby.

Erin, I hope today is a much better day.

Yay impending baby!

So far today is a much better day. She actually slept some so I got to indulge in some morning yoga and coffee before changing out the ice in her polar cooler (cooling machine). Then I spiked her disgusting green smoothie with some CBD tincture. It already smells like swampy perfume, it'll be interesting to see if she notices. Then I reminded her that first shower will be painful and exhausting so eat up, take all the meds, and i'll be back in an hour when they have kicked in to undertake operation First Shower around 8:30. Should give a reasonable amount of time for recovery before leaving at noon for First Physical Therapy. Qigong can be done from her bed so i'll consider that recovery and meditation time.

I'll ask if i can record some of the physical therapy so that I can then replay for her when she "forgets" the therapist's advice wrt pain management tomorrow. She's been seeing this PT for some time and respects her...so that might be a help. Fingers crossed!

eta: hopefully the Physical Therapist will allow me (as caregiver) to observe...still don't have results from my Covid test but i've been asymptomatic for the last four days and never had a fever and will have a p2.5 filter in my fabric mask for what that's worth....

Good grief, erin. You deserve some kind of award for what your mother is putting you through. What are her thoughts on ibuprofen -- that's what my doctor has recommended for pain.

Shower~ma!

another weekday, another day I don't want to work.

I've done my morning report and gone through emails, so I've done something.

I have a small stack of papers that I did not get through on Friday, so I will deal with that, but first, shower.

Other non-work things I am going to tackle today - making anther tele-therapy appt with a diff counselor, doing nails, more laundry.

I weirdly woke up about 4am, tried to go back to sleep, tossed and turned for another hour or so, and finally got up before 530. Who AM I? I made breakfast and cleaned up and ran a load of laundry and it's not yet 8am! (Er, notably I did NOT log in to work early, which I normally do at 8)

Dentist appointment this afternoon and our dental insurance is claiming my coverage ended 7/31 and no one has any idea why and I'm already on the fourth phone call of the morning and I'm about to cry.

Oh geez Dana. I've been through that before with the doctor and it's a pain. I'm so sorry.

Oh, no, Dana, I'm so sorry. What a mess!

Oh, of course. It's because the COBRA administrator didn't have my social or birthdate, even though I've had COBRA coverage for over a year and visited the dentist at the beginning of the year.

And of course the reasonable course of action is to terminate my coverage, instead of ACTUALLY TRYING TO CONTACT ME ABOUT IT.