EpicTangent replied to my text. She had a couple of hospital stays this summer and has surgery scheduled next month. Work is going okay and she is doing what she needs to do to stay healthy.

I certainly understand how hard it is to stay engaged on social platforms when real-life stuff is asking a lot of you.

Just received a lengthy text response from EpicTangent, and she gave me permission to re-post it here. I won't try to re-type it all, but here are the important points:

• "...been hospitalized a couple of times this summer, mostly with infections. Generally stuck in for a week or so, but released back to my life. Right now I'm waiting to be scheduled for another surgery, probably in October."
  
• "Work is still going OK, pretty quiet lately."
  
• "...I appreciate you guys checking up on me - it's nice to be reminded that...I do have a village."

eta: Laura was quicker. 🙂

I hope when your mom came back she brought pie.

We stopped for dinner on the way home from a soccer game this afternoon. My favorite diner with all kinds of wonderful classic diner foods. I had an egg salad sandwich on homemade bread, which was delish. They always have a large assortment of yummy pies, but I can never have both food and dessert, so I brought home a slice of chocolate peanut butter cream pie. I try and get different kinds, last couple times it was cherry and coconut cream. The crusts are soooo good.

My great-nephew had a 5K this morning. Came in 1st in his age group and 3rd overall. Then he had a soccer tournament this afternoon, after the first game last night. Ah, to have the energy of a 16-year-old.

eta: x-post with dcp - good that she is responding. I was worried.

Thanks for checking on her, y'all.