What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.

Angel ,'Conviction (1)'


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.


Susan W. - Aug 28, 2023 3:24:27 pm PDT #24560 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

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%.


kat - Aug 28, 2023 3:33:28 pm PDT #24561 of 30000
"Either you’re brainwashed or you’re weird." - Barbie

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?


javachik - Aug 28, 2023 4:06:39 pm PDT #24562 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Yeah you’d think those letters would be ophthional!


Calli - Aug 28, 2023 4:09:10 pm PDT #24563 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Surgery~ma to Arthur!

I hope you heal up quickly, smonster.


sj - Aug 28, 2023 4:12:10 pm PDT #24564 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

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.


beekaytee - Aug 28, 2023 4:43:20 pm PDT #24565 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant

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.


DebetEsse - Aug 28, 2023 4:44:40 pm PDT #24566 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

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.


kat - Aug 28, 2023 5:08:42 pm PDT #24567 of 30000
"Either you’re brainwashed or you’re weird." - Barbie

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.


meara - Aug 28, 2023 5:13:05 pm PDT #24568 of 30000

Yay fingers crossed for Arthur!

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


DavidS - Aug 28, 2023 5:16:09 pm PDT #24569 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Everything went well.

Yay!

I'm hoping that that bodes well for him going home like a normal baby.

I'm going to hold out hope that he's Supranormal!