When my doctor was going over my most recent labs (which is when we discovered I have mild anemia), she immediately said, "This means iron supplements, not going and feasting on the villagers".

It's like she knows me or something.

Yeah, I'm slightly anemic, too, so we're trying extra B12, which was low, and folate (though I'm not sure that's related -- it was just low).

My Vit D is abysmal as it is fat metabolized or whatever, and I don't really metabolized fat anymore after losing so much and specific parts of my entrails. Might be going to injections for that.

My understanding is that one needs Vitamin K to go with any Vitamin D.

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Hi, Gud. Karl, solidarity and a little redistribution for you, babe. Dental cleaning kind of made my shoulders and back hurt. Got the intense hygienist this time. smonster, hope your thing turned out all right.

Last meeting of the day is over. Not seeing much point in trying to do actual work at this point...

Shur and Nilly - we will worry over you and appreciate your check ins.

gud! Dude, it's good to see you pixels!

Supplements: low D so take the supplement, take the Magnesium and Potassium and it helps with the charly horses.

Extra B-12, multi-vite and B-multi.

I'm still alive so they must be working.

Your gut microbiome likes fiber! Whole fruits and veggies.

Hey guys, have a Meara:

Gud it's always good to hear from you and I'm betting you've been around more than I have recently.

Go smonster! Hang on to that empowerment!

DavidS, have a virtual shoulder-squeeze for everything you're going through.

Nilly, Shir, it's always good to hear from you and know you're OK, even if you can only drop in for a moment.

Timelies!

Poking my head for a moment to update that, yes, we're still as OK as possible under the circumstances, here. Where I live may be one of the very few places left in Israel to not have alarms yet (we had a false not-really-alarm last evening, so we later referred to it as a "dress rehearsal" to see that we know what to do and that the kids know what to do and how to do it).

Thank you so much for being here, and for being an island of good people doing everyday good deeds. It means so much to have this place where the world still makes sense.

Poking my head for a moment to update that, yes, we're still as OK as possible under the circumstances, here. Where I live may be one of the very few places left in Israel to not have alarms yet (we had a false not-really-alarm last evening, so we later referred to it as a "dress rehearsal" to see that we know what to do and that the kids know what to do and how to do it).

Very good to hear, Nilly. I think about you and Shir all the time these days, obviously. (And my co-workers over there, but mostly you two and your families.)

I spent part of tonight with the tiniest almost octogenarian Jewish woman I know (she's a close friend of one of my oldest friend's mom, and has therefore been part of my life on the edges for three decades or so, and when I say tiny, I mean she's 4'8" and a bit), which was wonderful because she's just an amazing human. Her sister (and her sister's children and grandchildren) are all in Israel, and are all also safe for now. I am very tired of seeing my fellow gentiles in my social spaces skipping over the whole part where their Jewish friends, even those not in Israel, are having a damn rough time right now. It's like they skipped straight past the horror of the attacks to "must reiterate our support for Palestinian people" stage. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, do not even bother with "May their memories be a blessing".

It makes me so mad and so sad.

My stupid, anodyne "this sucks, antisemitism always jumps in times like this, please look out for your Jewish friends and speak up" messages shouldn't be getting me backchannel thank yous from Jewish friends, damn it. AND YET.