Different post to say I made an enormous detour from my drive from Albany to the cabin up near Yosemite to see Jacqueline yesterday and I am SO GLAD that I did. I got to see Hec, JZ, and the new beautiful and perfect-for-them home, and even met JZ’s utterly lovely mom. Best detour EVER and one of the best hugs too.
Buffy: Where are the burgers? Riley: Yeah man, I'm starving. Cow me. Xander: I'd love to make with the moo but the fire's not cooperating.
'Lessons'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
javachik - Dec 29, 2022 4:41:25 pm PST #19638 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
sj - Dec 29, 2022 4:50:54 pm PST #19639 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I am so enraged on your behalf, JZ.
JZ - Dec 29, 2022 4:55:57 pm PST #19640 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
It's a New Year's miracle!
Actually, it's the miracle of a gloriously stubborn 80-something Brooklyn not-quite-retiree who speaks so softly you can barely hear him most of the time but who will coldly and remorselessly mulch you if he believes you're standing between one of his patients and the care that patient needs. Dr. S was a detective, a magician and a relentless pain in the ass of every pharma-adjacent individual in the entire city of San Francisco today, and the result is that in about an hour we'll have enough Dilaudid to get me all the way to my first visit with the oncology team, comfortable and well-rested instead of fully unstrung.
David did a lot of calling himself, shaking down phone systems with which he's much less familiar, and I clocked in a lot more phone time than my phobic self was happy with, and Dr. Reddy started with the first small push first thing in the morning, and somehow all that monumental effort turned this fucker around.
For one prescription. For a palliative band-aid that will only just get me through to the point where the truly difficult, grinding work begins. A glowing triumph that throws the greater systemic failure into stark relief.
JZ - Dec 29, 2022 4:58:34 pm PST #19641 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Separate post: it was so, so good to see Nanita! For the conversation and the superlative hug and the flowers and the absolute Nanita-ness of her.
Dana - Dec 29, 2022 5:00:31 pm PST #19642 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I hope it's easier after this.
Pix - Dec 29, 2022 5:59:56 pm PST #19643 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Oh, I'm so glad, JZ. And the Sacklers can burn in hell slowly.
sj - Dec 29, 2022 6:27:42 pm PST #19644 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Yay Dr S, David, and Dr Reddy! I’m glad you have your meds now, JZ.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 29, 2022 6:33:51 pm PST #19645 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Jesus H Christ JZ, David, and Dr. S. I am glad Dr S got things taken care of.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 29, 2022 6:45:34 pm PST #19646 of 30000
What is even happening?
Sheeesh. I need an Ativan after reading JZ and Hec's med odyssey. I hope you have/get what you need. I am so sorry you have to deal with b.s. like this ever, but especially right now.
It's inhumane. I really had to restrain myself from going full-on Shirley MacLaine, when we hit the bureaucracy wall for my mother's meds.
meara - Dec 29, 2022 7:53:33 pm PST #19647 of 30000
I’m so glad that my catch-up saw the solution (or at least a temporary one) I was really hoping I wouldn’t get to the end and it’s still a shitshow!! And glad you got to see Nanita and she got to see you, and the house!
I drove allllll day (about 830am to 730pm) and need to do the same thing again tomorrow. Ack. But I will be glad to get home. And giving the dog a Benadryl seemed to work pretty well for him in the car, thankfully. We are now in Redding and hoping to get home to seattle tomorrow night. Fingers crossed.