Matt, that's wonderful news about your mom. Not so wonderful with the cat bite. Keep an eye on it, and if there's *any* redness or swelling, go to the ER. Friend of mine wound up in the hospital on IV abx for four days with a cat bite he ignored. I'm not saying that's what happens, but it can, and quickly. Just keep an eye on it.

We hardly ever drink coffee anymore. I'm actually over it, except for the memory of how good it was. We used a little motel room sized 4 cup Mr. Coffee, with excellent locally roasted shade grown, bird safe beans we ground ourselves. And the instant the coffee was done it got decanted into a stainless steel thermos that had been sitting ready full of very hot water. No burning, no icky. I do miss coffee. Both on a cold wintery morning, and also in summer, when I stuck leftovers in the fridge long enough to freeze into slush, and then had the equivalent of a "blended" Iced coffee.

While tea is lovely, it's just not the same.

Great news, Matt! What a relief.

Yes, what Beverly said about the cat scratches and bite. They may well heal fine, but watch closely.

That is hard, Consuela. Comfort and strength wishes for all.

Mornings here are pretty chilly so I have taken to changing up my usual black coffee routine. My diet encourages such things as heavy cream so I add a couple tablespoons of that along with cocoa and stevia for a lovely keto morning beverage. It seems to warm me up more efficiently than plain black coffee.

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Oh no, Consuela! I heard about him through my favorite racing group who have been helping search. How awful.

I think I’m going to go get a nitro cold brew right now.

Timelines all!

The clafoutis convo has been both amusing & intriguing— since I have never had clafoutis.

Am now watching Leverage - had not realized that it had started.

Have an appointment with an oncologist on Monday - this is the non-radiation oncologist. I have an appointment with the radiation oncologist on August 9th. I am still feeling like everything that is going on is being told to me on a need to know basis.

I would think you would need to know pretty much whatever there is to be known, sumi. Hope the appointment go well.

I am still feeling like everything that is going on is being told to me on a need to know basis.

Some doctors can be like this thinking we won't understand the complexities. I read medical reports constantly so I just request my records so I can look at everything myself as everything isn't included in portal access, although usually the notes which have info are in there.

As much as I enjoy my coffee I don't do cold coffee, or coffee ice cream, or even coffee candies. They just don't taste right to me. Maybe because I don't do sugar as a general rule.

So sorry to hear that, Consuela. How awful.

In a completely different arena - I bought a canned nitro brew yesterday. I think I'll need to order one live to truly get the effect, though. Or visit Jessica in her office.

Finally going to be getting some relief for an intermittently annoying internal suture, which was periodically poking out through a tiny hole that never healed fully because of said suture... I slacked on following up, though I did go in a couple times about it before I really figured it out, but pandemic and all. More painful when it isn't poking through, because then it's just a stabby needle in my abdomen trying to poke through. Anyway, surgeon tried to grab and pull to trim it off yesterday, but he couldn't get a hold of it in the office with a grubby thing, so they're going to do a super low-key slice and remove sometime in the next month. But it has to be at the surgery center. Anyway, relief will be good. It's a minor annoyance all things considered, but even little stabby pain is not good.

Consuela , I'm sorry to hear about that. I hope he is found.

I hope it was a grabby thing, and not a grubby thing.