Crap, Hil, I am so sorry. I hope it is mild and short.

Oh no, Hil! I hope Urgent Care comes through for you and you're able to get Paxlovid.

Not-so-good part of surgical recovery: When you have a breast reduction, it's not unusual to get blood blisters around your underboob incisions sites. If you do NOT get such blisters, you'll probably stop oozing within 2-3 weeks. If you DO get the blisters, you can at least double that time! Guess which group I'm in? (I saw the doctor today, and he reassured me that everything is healing normally, no sign of infection, etc.; I just need to be patient since I'm in the unlucky cohort.)

Good part of surgical recovery: Before the surgery I could pretty much never wear dresses, because anything that fit in the chest was going to hang like a potato sack on the rest of my body. While I'm still pretty much living in pajama pants and t-shirts, I do have some dressy occasions coming up in the next few months, so I went ahead and ordered some dresses Facebook kept showing me. Specifically, this one and this one. And they fit! And are quite cute if I do say so myself! AND they have pockets!

I’m sorry, Hil. I hope it’s short and mild.

Those dresses look fun, Susan! I hope you’re healed up and can wear them soon.

I’m sorry Hil. I hope you get good treatment options.

Cute dresses with pockets, hooray!

I contacted the person covering for my doctor over the weekend, and got a Paxlovid prescription. Still not feeling great, but not really awful either. People are covering my classes on Monday, and I'll see how I'm feeling on Tuesday to decide what will happen on Wednesday (because new policy is just quarantining for five days, then do a rapid test, and if that's negative and no fever for 24 hours, then can go back, with a mask for the next five days.) Based on how I'm feeling now, I don't think I'll be ready to go back on Wednesday, but I'll see.

I'm sorry you have covid Hil I hope that it's mild and over quickly.

Yay for being able to wear dresses. That is awesome Susan.

I came up to moms since I javemt seen her since before xmas because she was sick and then I was. I'm getting caught up on stuff that she forgot to tell me over the phone. Mostly about my cousin's son , J.(my cousin who had the stroke and then died). He is in foster care now. His mom made an attempt to care for him but she wasn't able to. She also lost guardian ship of J's half sister, well the one in high school. One of their cousin's has taken her in and that cousin works with the foster system so she has become a resource and part of the support for J.

Turns out J has landed with one of the best foster parents that a kid can get. And he is going to school (he hadn't been) and he is actually communicating again with my mom and my aunt.

Oh that’s a good turn askye.

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Pinch-hitting for Laura...

Today is the birthday of the magnificent Beverly!

May you have a lovely day and stupendous year ahead, Beverly. Happy Birthday!

I contacted the person covering for my doctor over the weekend, and got a Paxlovid prescription. Still not feeling great, but not really awful either.

For a timeline, I started feeling sick Saturday night. Tested myself early Monday, called my NP, got an almost immediate telehealth appt and picked up the Paxlovid by noon. I tested negative (it was the first time I tested since the first two positives) on Friday. I was exposed (most likely) on Thursday evening so I was symptomatic 48 hours after exposure. And started taking Paxlovid 36 hours after first symptoms.

I hope you feeling much better soon and have an easy recovery.