And I'm going to look into a patient advocate who can accompany him to doctor appointments after the hallucinations have (I hope) been dealt with.

This is an excellent idea for Team Teppy's Well Being.

I second the suggestion of getting your father to sign a release that allows his healthcare providers to talk to you.

I'm glad the appointment went as well as it did. One thing I've noticed about the nurse practitioners we've dealt with is that, I feel like they spend more time thinking about the person they're dealing with (as a whole being, not a set of symptoms) than some doctors.

I just got an Accept message from a new guy for a meeting I run. The meeting was at 9:30 this morning. I get that he's new, but I feel like that should be pretty universal - accept the meeting before it's in the past. Also, if you accept the meeting, show up (which he didn't). Am I expecting too much of the youngsters?

I was so excited this morning when I opened my weather app and it said the air was good! But it was a lie. Booooooo. And I ended up with a horrible headache and took the afternoon off. Feeling better now and dog behaved. Whew. But still feel the air in my lungs. Yesterday I lost it because it was like 80 degrees inside and 60 outside but you're not supposed to open the windows...I gave in and opened the windows, it's much more liveable now.

My brain still feels a little melty though.

I'm very jealous of your blue sky KB!

I was so excited this morning when I opened my weather app and it said the air was good! But it was a lie. Booooooo.

Booo!

Blue skies in SF today (finally) with AQI of 14. Wishing it your way soon.

14?!? I'm so jealous. Ours is down from 260 to 180 and that seems great.

Air quality map tool: [link]

{{{Steph}}} I'm sorry I don't have any suggestions, but I'm here if you need anything.

ION, ugh. I thought I was doing pretty well, but the holidays coming up, and not being able to see my family, is hitting me hard. We had Passover over Zoom, and now we'll be having Rosh Hashanah over Zoom. And maybe we'll have Thanksgiving in person, but I don't even know yet.

And I don't know what to do about food for Rosh Hashanah. I'm feeling a lot better, but still really too tired to cook. There's a vegan restaurant downtown where I thought I'd pick up some meals (they do curbside pickup) and have some nice food while seeing my family over Zoom, but I just remembered that I've got to be at home on Friday afternoon because my students have an exam, and there won't be time to drive downtown and back before the holiday starts. And somehow that was just the last straw and I started sobbing, and I haven't seen my parents or sister in person since January, and I can't even get together with other friends here who are celebrating the holiday, and I don't know if I'll ever see my aunt and uncle again because my uncle has cancer and they live in Boston, and this just all sucks and I hate it all.

And plenty of jerks on Twitter and Facebook seem to think that it's totally fine if people like me never see my family again, as long as they can go out to bars and not have to think about masks.

Oh, crap. I forgot to get wine. Wine for actual religiously needed purposes, not just because wine. But also because wine.

{{{Hil}}} I'm so sorry.

We had Passover over Zoom, and now we'll be having Rosh Hashanah over Zoom

I don't even celebrate these holidays with family normally, not really, but the weirdness of how the same they feel this year, like everything has been temporarily suspended but for so long, is hard for me to wrap my mind around. That's been a thing all along, of course, but for some reason the holidays are weirding me out even more.