For Tom, I have also had the experience of having a therapist fall asleep. It is demoralizing and just terrible. I was 22 so I fired the therapist by not showing up and am still resistant to prolonged therapy. So I think you are handling it well, and also you are not the only person this has happened to! (Although it might be weirder in person when you are in the same room!)

I had a very productive meeting with my MD. Turns out she thinks I'm not making this up for attention (always a fear for me) and I'm doing the right things, and we are tweaking the meds and seeing the therapist and I got to sleep in my own bed (! I've been "sleeping" in my lounge chair an hour or two at a time for a while now because apparently my bed is lava) for (counts) five hours! last night. I'm feeling cautiously optimistic.

I hope you're feeling much better, Matt. I've been nodding furiously at all the advice I would be giving had I been able to verbalize recently, Tom. Major adulting Dana, good for you. And yes, I have regret ita was not able to avail herself of newer and better treatments. JZ I agree so hard with what you said about people and internet people. I've been...distancing both. But that's gone on long enough now, and I need to take hold of things and be judicious about my own exposure and interaction, not just hide under the first handy rock.

Exciting news, Drew, glad good things are happening for you. And yes, we fall back, to keep the mornings light, but it makes evening come on at 3:30 in December and we hatesss it, precious. I like to sleep late, but in early winter I feel like I'm squandering what precious little daylight we get, so I must get up oh so aching early. And rainy days hide all the light. Give me June evening gloaming that goes on forever, fading only gradually into the dark.

Um. Sorry. Where were we? H and I watched Hugo last night. I'd forgotten just how enchanting a film it is. Oh! Suela, congratulations on an improved and bettering neighborhood. And a window seat in a quiet library sounds like heaven, these days.

I had a very productive meeting with my MD. Turns out she thinks I'm not making this up for attention

Wonderful to get precious sleep!! It is good to hear you got a good doctor who listens.

The doctors who discount their patients claims are the worst. My most favorite doctor told me that a number of his elderly patients clearly made appointments with him just because they were lonely and needed attention, but he felt it was just as important for their health to see them and provide that care as any other type of medical care. We were moving his office, like actually packing boxes and moving computers, when an elderly couple came in for a visit. They had the wrong date. His staff was turning them away when he insisted on seeing them. Sat them down in a room and talked to them about their concerns and took care of them. He was the sweetest.

He had a different attitude with medications too as his background was pharmacology before medicine. He would write his script with a normal sig, but explain to his patients, if you feel like X you only need 1 pill, and if you feel like Y you should take 2, and if you feel like Z call me. He strongly felt patients needed to have more control and spent a lot of time explaining things assuming his patients were intelligent adults.

People who want longer days in the winter need to move to Florida! We have the extra daylight time! Okay, our politics seriously suck, but if more sane people move here we can overcome.

Laura, I wish I could find a doctor like the one you described. I had one like that in Minneapolis, and I loved her. It's strangely hard for me to find one like that here in SF.

Hugs to all that need it. I've been trying to get a COVID vax appointment for Peanut for the last hour, and it's an exercise in frustration. The closest appointments are a full neighborhood away and 2 weeks away, and I'd really like to get her started ASAP & close to home (for comforting purposes). But she & I will be getting our flu vax today, so we've got that going for us.

I've been trying to get a COVID vax appointment for Peanut for the last hour, and it's an exercise in frustration. The closest appointments are a full neighborhood away and 2 weeks away

I just made one for Aeryn on the 20th at a pharmacy half an hour away because everything else was booked. I'm really hoping our school district is able to organize a vaccine clinic for the elementary students like they did for 12+ a few months ago so I can cancel it!

I've got to figure vax appts for kids will open up in a couple of weeks like they did for adults, right? Not that that is much consolation for families who have already been waiting all year.

I've been "sleeping" in my lounge chair an hour or two at a time for a while now because apparently my bed is lava

OMG, Beverly, that sounds so awful. Glad you got some good doctoring.

Timelies all!

We got an appointment for Mr. S for Wednesday for his first COVID shot.

The hits keep coming. The hinge on one arm of my glasses broke. Luckily we were in the same shopping center as my eyeglasses place, and they found a new frame to put my lenses in. Still cost me $170…

Also, our nanny told us that she’s moving out of state at the end of the month, so we have to find a new one. It’s going to be a tough transition for Mr. S as they have a good rapport.

Eeep on the glasses, and a bigger eeep for poor Mr. S. It will be a tough time. I do hope you can find someone quickly that will click with him.

So very happy for you, Bev! And vibing hard that having almost a month's notice will be enough for you to find another good match for Mr. S.

Digits crossed for easy appointmentation for all the remaining younger Buffista sproggins. Matilda is all Pfizered up, and a couple of days ago she started bugging me all on her own about a flu vaccine, so now she has an appointment at the neighborhood Walgreens for Wednesday. I'm both joyful for her and kind of flummoxed--between this, navigating the City, and sailing smoothly back into regular socializing with what appears to be a group of really lovely young adults, I feel like she's more mature, grounded and competent at 15 than I was at 25 and I'm not sure she needs me for anything but the routine things that come up when one isn't yet a legal adult.