Hi. As Hec pointed out in another place, time doesn't exist in hospitals. I've been here almost two weeks (aside from the 12 hours I spent in LA before rushing back), and I am averaging 70 hours a week here. We aren't next to a window, so that makes it even harder to tell if time is passing. I feel like I'm going to be here forever. BUT, in one #win, I did finally get the charge nurse to agree to move Dad over to the other bed now that the guy next to us has been discharged. That bed has a window and a working TV. Small victories. The window looks onto a moldy roof, but at least it has natural light.
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
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.
Pix - Jan 10, 2024 12:35:18 pm PST #27958 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
dcp - Jan 10, 2024 12:53:44 pm PST #27959 of 30000
I have grown older, but not up.
Any more iguanas for entertainment?
Pix - Jan 10, 2024 12:57:38 pm PST #27960 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Alas, no. Apparently, the second floor is much less exciting than the fifth floor for iguanas. There is a stern sign on the cafeteria patio telling everyone not to feed them, however.
-t - Jan 10, 2024 1:37:03 pm PST #27961 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Iguanas defying expectations on floor preference!
lisah - Jan 10, 2024 1:45:32 pm PST #27962 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Shir, the email address in my profile is good
Sheryl - Jan 10, 2024 3:28:26 pm PST #27963 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I’m sorry things are so rough, Pix.
Calli - Jan 10, 2024 4:20:53 pm PST #27964 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I’m sorry about your dad’s health issues, Pix. I remember being responsible for my own dad when he was in a bad way, and it was a lot. I was in the card exchange—no idea if I was one of your assignees. But consider yourself off the hook for my card if I was.
JenP, I’m sorry about the shingles.
EpicTangent - Jan 10, 2024 4:49:45 pm PST #27965 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
JenP, I’m sorry about the shingles.
Seconded. But thank you for the reminder that I need to reach out to my doctor's office because they forgot to put in the order for my second shingles shot so I've been thus far unable to get scheduled to get it.
Pix, all kinds of love and as much ethereal support as I can send through the intertubes. (And as someone who didn't sign up for the card exchange this year because Some Big Things Are Big And Get In The Way - your Things Are Big and everyone understands that they have Gotten In The Way).
Shir, thank you so much for doing your best to find (and be) the positive in a really effing hard situation. You're inspiring.
EpicTangent - Jan 11, 2024 9:56:10 am PST #27966 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
No new posts since yesterday afternoon? Did I break the board?
. . .
I'm sorry! Come back!!
Laura - Jan 11, 2024 10:04:52 am PST #27967 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I'm working too hard. I've been working at a new medical practice and they are very needy. Lots of handholding.