Waiting room Wednesday PWYC

[Nancy]

Glad to read LucyL. is back home and has checked in.
LM burgers sound good to me!
I have showered put pj's on just not feeling all that great but the shower did help.
My dinner in the oven.
Twins so sorry your dd is going through that.

[Harriet]

I may be using a generic term, "zoom", when what I should be saying is that it will be my first time using the system that the big hospital authority uses. I have done what I could with them in advance, doing an "eCheck-in" and learning that Crome would be supported, which is good to know. HRH needs to break away from all he's been doing in his office and make sure microphone and camera are working on my PC. If he needs a grand to crawl around under my PC, he needs to ask for the help now. Ds suggests we remember that our new device can be my back-up but it is Apple and, reading about it, there are a lot more prerequisites for getting on with it.

Ds has been on the phone with me offering to pick up script for me tomorrow. We might need him, don't know.

((Twins' and dd)) We all need to feel supported in our workplace and by our coworkers, and to have respect for them. It's not a lot to expect, really. I'm so sorry your dd feels tenuous about this. Grateful you are there for her, of course.

LadyM, so glad to hear the doctor has all your good information to add to knowledge and there may be another diagnosis.

[CathyS]

LucyLee you probably feel more "stoned" than drunk. You got knocked out by drugs. Same sort of feeling. Feeling drunk, on the other hand, isn't fun at all. I used to fake drinking alcohol with my x inlaws because I realized they were alcoholics and there was no way I could ever keep up with them. I also found out that actually being drunk wasn't enjoyable. I'm happy that you have finally gotten your biopsy and I hope the tree is down soon!

If I hadn't read about the racoon and the stew, Blessed almost had me thinking that there had been a raccoon used to make stew. EW!! Sorry, but I had to mention this.

You guys make me laugh, which is good because I am sad that Kathryn is no longer around. Something happened in her city earlier today and I just hope it wasn't near her. (Partial collapse of a parking garage which I'm almost certain was a public garage, not one attached to an apartment building.) Speaking of which, I'm going to goo gle that to make sure.

Later... it wasn't in an apartment building. Judging from the massive pile of snow on the top level of the structure, it most likely collapsed due to the weight of the snow.

[Lady Maverick]

LucyLee & Mystery - relax, rest, and recover.

I am sad that Kathryn is no longer around

I miss Kathryn too. She has been such a big part of our SHE family for so many years. I consider Kathryn & Ken as friends and get excited when hearing from them. I hope they are doing well, enjoying the moments, and finding success in their lives.

[Harriet]

And... .. back again finally...

Got called away while posting before, because HRH found time to troubleshoot/test with me, and it looks like my same old camera perched on my screen is still doing just fine, having not been used forever. Can hear myself when doing a test of sound, too. Feel much better about it. Sorry to get so frantic - I can just see a situation in which this long-awaited important appt was messed up.

Was then able to talk to dd26 as she drove home. Miss her being around. She is so easy to talk to.

and finally had supper

lucylee, I was wanting to say I'm so glad you are home and in recuperation from the day, resting.

Mystery, that is great that you had success with trapping a varmint before he got himself trapped into your re-do of upstairs work. And probably no others will want to venture in there now. I had no cookbooks with crockpot recipes that weren't ultra-centered on meat. I thought of curry... .. like a Massaman curry simmering through the day smelling so good, but it is usually served over rice, which wouldn't be as easy for each person/time.

Nancy, I hope a good night's sleep for you will find you feeling better tomorrow.

I am less worried about all dr will tell/predict now that at least nurse has given me a little info. They don't realize that these delays, days and days of kinda pins and needles, start a patient wondering way too much, you know? It was dawning on me that biopsy could have shown something unheard of, like I was the most unusual patient in the world, highly complicated ... ... HRH confided that he was getting antsy, too.

[Nancy]

I have a mild temps 99.4 watched a movie and had my dinner.
Thinking of another check on that and got my Rx out for the bedtime ones.
Feels like Fri. to me.
Glad I showered earlier.
Trying to remember to hydrate.

[lucylee]

I miss Kathryn too. She has been such a big part of our SHE family for so many years. I consider Kathryn & Ken as friends and get excited when hearing from them. I hope they are doing well, enjoying the moments, and finding success in their lives.

Yes. Me too.

Well, I had a pretty long nap, and then woke up and ate the chicken salad, and a bunch of other stuff, and I talked to dh's cousin on the phone for -- hmmm... I'm not EVEN going to tell y'all how long we talked. I think I set a new record. I called her, wanting to make sure she had my cell phone number, AND wanting to tell her about the biopsy, because since so many people at church already knew, I was afraid she might hear and have her feelings hurt that I had not told her. She is easily the person in dh's extended family that I feel closest too, and I know my dmil was almost a second mother to her. She used to talk to my dmil on the phone for long periods, and I know she misses that.
Anyway -- she's about my dmom's age and I really think a lot of her and her husband. They have a son the same age as my dbro, and a daughter a little older.

The problem with the long nap is that I'm pretty wide awake now. Sigh. Yep... four in the morning again.

Just saw that Gene Hackman and his wife and their dog were found dead in their NM home. Foul play is not suspected. Maybe a gas leak or something like that? This sounds so strange... so now I'm wanting to keep watching the news.

LadyM -- I hope the new diagnosis also offers new treatment and will help you and LordM manage these episodes.

(((Nancy))) -- hope you feel better soon!

Harriet -- your anxiety about the zoon call is perfectly understandable! Glad HRH felt like helping you get all this set up. Dcousin and I spent some of our time complaining about modern technology taking over all our doctor's offices.

Mystery! A raccoon trapped in your house? I missed this somehow. I must cuop better. This has been a concern of mine since the ceiling hole in the study... AND I am really worried about what will happen whenever the bathroom floor is repaired. I have definitely heard critters under that shower floor... and I may lie down in front of the carpenter's truck if he tries to leave me a hole in that floor! I am so terrified of mice. Dmom has a dead one in a trap in her garage. I told her I was sorry but I could not help her dispose of him in his trap. Nope. I don't do mice.

Racoons and stew... sounds like an episode of The Beverly HIllbillies.

I realized I left the half-full container of chicken salad sitting on the coffee table for several hours. My house is 73 degrees. Hmmm. I hope it is okay to eat tomorrow. I put it back in the refrigerator when I realized it.

I am so thankful for all of you supporting me and keeping my spirits up through this, and especially for your prayers. I told DS on the way over this morning, "I really can't believe how calm I actually feel about all this." DS said, "Well, it's cause you have a lot of people praying for you. It would be crazy to ask people to pray for you and then say, 'oh, but it's not working and I didn't expect it to anyway.'"
I got a little anxious when the anesthesiologist told me about the breathing apparatus, because I gag sooo easily, and from the time I started hearing about ventilators during Covid, I thought I'd rather just die from Covid. Then when they wheeled me into the surgery unit, I had another little moment when I saw the change in the color of the tile (it's a very mild, calm green -- I just knew that signaled the different department.) I told the nurse I didn't know WHY I ever consented to do this -- there was no reason for it all. Just that NP changing my meds. THEN when they started to strap down my arms on these boards... I said, "BOTH arms?" The nurse said they could leave that one (the one with no IV) loose for awhile, and that calmed me down. I just started praying when they put the oxygen mask on me (no throat thing at that point) -- I just kept repeating, "Lord, be with me..." and next thing I knew, she told me the two things she was putting in the IV and I was back in the recovery room.
I guess some of you are all too familiar with what happens during surgery, but this was all pretty new to me since I've only been under anesthesia twice in my life, and the first time was an unexpected emergency C-section, and the second was a colonoscopy.
Having done this three times now, I must say I am a fan of anesthesia. Fortunately, I had no nausea or anything like that.

Perhaps anesthesia makes me even more chatty than I normally am? DH's cousin and I talked for almost 3 hours.