Yikes, Matt! I'm sorry this was such an awful experience for you. May the rest of your recovery be smooth.

First hummingbird of the season! Yay!

Also, the helpful monitor informed us that when I'm stressed and angry my blood pressure can spike to 189/106 even when I'm a quart low and started blaring an alarm, which as you can imagine helped calm the situation down immensely.

Oh, that's the best damn part of all. What a nightmare.

Thanks again everyone. I went to work today because I am just in waiting mode until I pick up the death certificate tomorrow, but it was hard and I am tired! I saw my old boss Sue and when she hugged me it was the first time I cried. It makes sense because she was so much of a mentor to me professionally and personally and she is safe but it sucked to cry at work!

Structure can be good. Take it at least as easy on yourself as you would anyone else - you wouldn't fault anyone at all for crying at work under the same circumstances.

Yikes, Matt! Damn.

Yay hummingbird!

Manhattan is gorgeous today, y’all.

Matt, glad the procedure went well, but yikes! on the incision reopening and going all Buckets f Blood on you!

Tim was discharged a little bit ago and is already napping in his recliner. He has drugs and follow-up appointments scheduled, but nothing until later next week, so things can chill the fuck out for a bit.

Oh, Matt. I'm glad it got dealt with, but wow, nobody needs that sort of stress and trauma in their life.

Much love and Buffista solidarity to you; I hope your recovery is swift and complete.

Also sending out some ~recovery-ma~ to Tim. Tep, I hope the next couple of weeks are much calmer for you.

Thanks gang! I successfully changed my wound dressing and took a shower this afternoon with no bleeding or pain, so I think I'm out of the woods. Now it's just a matter of keeping my 16 lb cat from jumping into my lap for a week and returning to normal human skin colors.

Here's hoping Tim has a nice rest and a smooth recovery with no unwelcome surprises!

I forgot that the reason we own a recliner is because Tim realized after heart surgery (god damn, has that man had a lot of surgery) that the first few nights up to the first week after surgery it's easier to sleep in the recliner rather than totally flat (or mostly flat) in the bed.

What I'm saying is that I can continue to sleep all sprawled in the middle of the bed for at least another 3 nights, minimum. Woo, hogging the bed!

Starfish like the wind, Tep!

Re: yesterday’s Connections (was that yesterday?) I usually don’t mind or even like the wacky pictograph ones but I could not get this one.