NYT and a couple others say the reaction to the second shot is worse for women than for men, which tracks with what I've observed but raises a LOT of questions about why bodies would react differently. Biology is complex.
Having a mobile injection team that could travel for a house call for such cases would be a blessing, particularly now that there's a vaccine that doesn't have to be specially handled.
A nursing group in the Netherlands (where, universal health care) shifted from making patients come in to having the nurses go to the patients' homes a few years ago, because the nurses chose to make that shift, and the results have been staggeringly great.
Just spoke with my aunt. My uncle probably only has a few days. He is not awake, his breathing is labored and rattling. He is not eating and their living wills request no feeding tubes.
I think they’ve been married over 50 years. They call each other Love. They had trouble getting pregnant, but would take my brother and I for a week some summers. They were the fun aunt and uncle.
Oh msbelle. They sound wonderful.
Whenever I become eligible for the vaccine I am definitely taking a sick day or two afterwards.
And I’m going to take a bereavement day for my uncle and go scream into the void somewhere.
Oh, msbelle, they sound wonderful. And you take whatever time you need--your work will just have to understand.
In NC I worked with a woman who called the grocery chain "Food Dog." Something about a younger relative, the logo, and foo dogs. It wore off on me, and then on H and then on the kids, and then on their friends. We all still call it Food Dog. When H was in Charlotte a couple years ago his brother finally asked, "What's with the Food Dog?" H had to call me to get the history beyond, "Carrie always called it that."
Oh msbelle, I'm so sorry.
trying to decide if I'm annoyed by something. No, I'm annoyed, but not sure if I should be.
For the class I'm teaching, all of the sections of students have the same legal problem. Since there are 5 of us, it makes sense to divide up the work and make sure that they all do the same thing. So, I draft one of the pleadings according to the conversation that we had as a group about a month ago, using X, Y, and Z. I post it on the Teams site, and one of colleagues says "this is really great for X, Y, and Z, but I told my class X, Y, and Q, so I changed the document and will be giving it to my class. I've posted the updated document if anyone else wants to do X, Y, and Q".
first, I am annoyed that she just changed the document. Had it been me, I would have emailed the group and said "Hey, I told my class X, Y, and Q, so I want to make sure that we are on the same page. I can update X, Y, and Z if we are all in agreement"
second, I am annoyed that she took it upon herself to change the game with her class, and now we are inconsistent.
I would also add that I sent the document to the program leader, who signed off on me posting it, so I think that if I had been wrong about X,Y, and Z, she would have said.
Grrrr.
