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askye - Apr 07, 2021 10:09:07 am PDT #5324 of 29994
Thrive to spite them

I got my vaccine today. The pharmacy person was pleased I was excited.

I got an update on Jay. Wanda signed a DNR. There is severe brain damage as while the CT scan showmsome improvement and his BP is down the doctors are telling them to prepare for the end.

Jay will be the third cousin I've lost. Sun who died 13 years ago and Kylie who died 3 years ago.

Jay and I are 6 months apart in age. Sun a year younger (same age as my brother), and Kylie a year older.


askye - Apr 07, 2021 10:17:07 am PDT #5325 of 29994
Thrive to spite them

I wish vaccines could be mandatory but I know there are people at work who won't get them. I wish we could require customers to show they are but we can't even require them to wear masks.


flea - Apr 07, 2021 10:19:02 am PDT #5326 of 29994
information libertarian

How old is Jay’s son, askye? So sad for him especially.


Topic!Cindy - Apr 07, 2021 10:30:43 am PDT #5327 of 29994
What is even happening?

I'm so sorry to hear about your cousin Jay, askye.

I'm glad you got your vaccine. Which one did you get? I get my second Moderna, tomorrow. I think brenda does, too.


-t - Apr 07, 2021 10:39:10 am PDT #5328 of 29994
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm so sorry, askye.


Calli - Apr 07, 2021 10:45:16 am PDT #5329 of 29994
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I'm sorry about your cousin, askye. I hope things will work out ok for his son.

I don't know that my university is requiring vaccination, but they're certainly encouraging it. There's a big medical program there, so setting up and staffing vaccine distribution sites has seemingly gone fairly smoothly. That's where I got my first shot and have scheduled my second (next Monday).

I'm having kind of amusing billing problem with my favorite mail order clothing shop. Several weeks ago I put some of my tax refund into some new summer work clothes. (I didn't buy any last year because I figured—correctly—that I'd be spending the summer in cut-offs and t-shirts, working from home, so my more professional stuff is looking kinda ragged.) Well, they sent me two of the same skirt, in the same pattern. I sent one back and asked to exchange it for the same skirt in a different pattern. No problem. About 10 days latter I had the new skirt. Then a few days after that, I received another skirt in the newer pattern. I contacted the store, they said, basically, "oops, records mixup," and sent me a label so I could mail the most recent skirt back. Today I got a message from PayPal that I'd received a refund for returning the latest skirt. So, to sum up, I have two skirts and the shop has my money for one. This would be far less amusing to me if the monetary discrepancy was in the other direction. C'mon, store. I like your stuff. Let me pay you for it.


msbelle - Apr 07, 2021 11:15:59 am PDT #5330 of 29994
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I am trying to bribe mac with a vacation to CA in order to get him to get vaccinated. I am not wording it that way, of course. But CA with the vaccine, me visiting him in TX without. his choice.


askye - Apr 07, 2021 11:23:25 am PDT #5331 of 29994
Thrive to spite them

Jay is 47. Or he has recently turned 48. I forgot his birthday.. we aren't FB friends. But I did find his girlfriend's FB and she had more info.

He has significant brain damage and there is a 25%chance he will wake up from his coma. She said he does seem to have some responses ...if he acts agitated and she does things she normally would to help him calm down he calms down. But I know that may just be wishful thinking.

And yesterday was his son's 11th birthday.

She has support from her family, friends and her workplace (she mentioned them in her post) and her kids are with their dad right now.


askye - Apr 07, 2021 11:25:11 am PDT #5332 of 29994
Thrive to spite them

I got the Moderna shot. My arm hurt more in the first 10 mis or so than it does now. I got it in my left arm. Wasn't sure which one. I sleep on my left side but my right arm especially the upper arm has bruises from knocking into fixtures when I'm getting clothes so I figured left arm would be better.


-t - Apr 07, 2021 11:44:23 am PDT #5333 of 29994
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

And yesterday was his son's 11th birthday.

Oh that poor kid