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Health ~ma for Arthur!

ION, I got my period today for the first time in 3 months, and I am pissed about it.

One nice thing about having a hysterectomy is that you KNOW you're done. (Not that I'd encourage it for that alone, nor would insurance cover it even in a sane medical system, but still.)

I've noticed that in my current Couch to 5K endeavors I actually have more energy and endurance at 52 than I did 10 years earlier, and I attribute that mostly to no longer being laid up with excessively heavy bleeding roughly every three weeks, with an assist from the breast reduction surgery taking so much literal weight on my shoulders that it's cut my level of chronic pain by at least 75%.

Sending easy surgery vibes for Arthur and calm vibes to his family.

Grace had a 2.5 hour ophthalmology appointment today. It was a lot. But also why does ophthalmology have so many extra letters?

Yeah you’d think those letters would be ophthional!

Surgery~ma to Arthur!

I hope you heal up quickly, smonster.

Ugh, that sounds exhausting l, Kat.

I’m at the lovely stage of perimenopause where my period just shows up randomly. Three weeks some months and then 5 weeks on other months. So fun.

It’s a testing week at ltc’s karate studio so she will hopefully come home halfway closer to her next belt (they mark their current belts with red tape when they’re halfway to the next one). She went with TCG because I decided I was done parenting for the day.

I'm not surprised, but bone-deep disappointed, at the lack of information and/or support for the all-the-way menopaused woman.

Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled to see the increase in focus on the before and mid stages, but there are a whole lotta folks in my predicament.

Arthur is out of surgery. Everything went well. We're waiting for clearance for him to get back to his happy place (on the boob).

He already sounds different, so I'm hoping that that bodes well for him going home like a normal baby.

Yeah you’d think those letters would be ophthional!

So good, javachik.

The doc also said that Grace's eyes are improving slightly, that her left eye has improved almost to the point where it is ok for driving. Which meant as I drove home I realized that Grace is legally blind. I mean, honestly, her vision sucks, but I don't think I ever thought of it that way. She has so many other issues that her eyes have often been just sort of...not on the radar as much.

Yay fingers crossed for Arthur!

Kat, is that “almost good enough to drive with glasses”? But yeah, if she’s legally blind that sucks.