Oh Tep, what an awful stressful situation.

Ethan had a health scare this weekend that turned out to be mostly a false alarm (most importantly, it was Not A Heart Attack), but still needed an overnight hospital stay which meant I wound up driving to Boston late Friday night to help Dylan move out of his dorm. I drove home around 2pm yesterday which made it almost exactly 24-hours round trip and I never want to see another car again as long as I live.

No more health problems, people. Cut it out.

Oh, geez, yeah, what Dana said.

Sending ALL of the healing ~ma Tim's way and the dealing without collapsing ~ma your way, Tep.

Glad you're done with that crappy 24 hours, Jess. And that Ethan's thing was not A Thing. Jesus.

Glad Ethan’s thing was not a thing!

The surgery Tim had in 2022 was meant to keep his lung from collapsing again, and the way it worked was that the top part of his lung was basically attached to the inside of his chest wall (in a normal situation, our lungs are otherwise not attached to the chest wall).

So he’ll need that surgery again, to attach MORE of the lung to the chest wall. Think of it as stapling construction paper to a bulletin board.

He does not have pneumonia, which is yay. This lung just likes to collapse, apparently. And stapling it to the bulletin board of his chest wall is the best way to fix it.

Compared to cancer, this is no big deal. Still a pain in the ass, though.

Anyway, the surgery will be tomorrow or Tuesday; we don’t know yet.

My hip is cordially invited to fuck all the way off.

Here's hoping all goes smoothly and Tim's lung learns its lesson, Steph.

Sending you all love, Steph

No pneumonia is good, but joint pain is so miserable. My knee, post-steroid shot, is mostly okay except when I'm lying down. Because you want persistent knee pain while you're trying to sleep.

My knee, post-steroid shot, is mostly okay

After the steroid shot in my hip, it was pretty darn good until maybe 2 weeks ago, when the pain started creeping back despite me doing my PT and taking Meloxicam every day. But the ortho PA told me that some people can go a year between shots, but for some people it’s 6 months, or even 4 months, which is seeming true for me.

except when I'm lying down. Because you want persistent knee pain while you're trying to sleep.

That knee is not logical.

stapling it to the bulletin board of his chest wall is the best way to fix it.

Surprising only because 2026 still feels like a future sci-fi-only year to me, surely we ought to have flying cars and medicine that works by waving a glowy thing in front of the patient by now??

I’m for glowing medical stuff. But if stapling construction paper to the bulletin board works, I’m for that, too.

I would like some magical wand make everyone healthy something, really. That would be good.