Glad all the hosting went well, Laura!!

Fingers crossed for Tim!

On the one hand I wish we in the US got as many holidays as my global coworkers. On the other hand, having a day where I’m working and they aren’t and I have hardly any emails? Glorious!!

Good luck with the steroids to Tim!

It just occurred to me this morning that it is particularly provoking of my employer to make May 1 the first day of our 3-days/week in the office schedule. I don't think International Worker's Day is going to make it onto our list of observed (by anyone, noty byu the company) holidays that the People Dept gives us every month

Well, the British yarn bombers are preparing.

I hope Tim's procedure is effective, Steph.

Laura, it sounds like a good time was had by all. That's great!

I helped a friend work on her resume yesterday. She's been at the same place for 26 years, but it's starting to circle the drain. My role was mostly to provide encouragement, snacks, and eventually cocktails, and to be someone she could bounce ideas off of. I think it went reasonably well. And I do like slinging gin for the greater good.

A round of epidurals for my friends! Let's get Tim pain-free.

I'm so glad the fly by was fun and not the stress mess you were worried about.

We arrived at 9:30am and we're just starting our infusion here now. So it's a late start to a delayed weekend.

The problem is, that the chemo pump has to stay on for 45 hours after it's started. But it isn't put in until the end of the infusion. So I got new plane tickets that leave at 4pm on Wednesday, but because they started us so much later today the pump might not be done in time for our flight.

You know when they have you show up at 10am for your infusion appointment you don't think they're going to start after 2pm.

So....fuck.

Yeah, we're fucked. I'm going to have to buy yet another ticket, get home later and I hate that they don't get that their loosey goosey scheduling has a cascading effect on our travel plans.

Dang, that is some serious scheduling shifting y'all have had. I'm sorry.

Cancelled tix, got a refund, booked new tix for 7:45 pm, getting into SFO 9:15ish. Home by 10pm.

Boo.

And then we've got one week before we have to come back again, since we're keeping on schedule.

So instead of traveling 4 days out of 14, we'll be traveling 10 days out of 18.

loosey goosey scheduling

Yeah. You're learning. They won't.

In my case, the hitch was always that the treatment center wouldn't put the request for meds through to the (fortunately on-site) pharmacy until I was actually seated in the treatment chair. Sometimes it only took 45 minutes for the meds to arrive. Usually is was 60 or 75.

Also adding to the schedule were multiple check-ins, lobby waits, blood draws, doctor consults, and pre-med infusions.

So, "oh, chemo is only an hour" turned into "arrive at 6:45 a.m., leave at 12:30 p.m."

That is a high proportion of travel time!

I am about to take advantage of tomorrow being another in office day to leave while my laptop is shutting down and not pack up all my stuff. I might even take my unburdened self to happy hour. Or Target. Target should have a happy hour.