Special Ordered, Arrived Yesterday

I get home. The puddles of cat barf are missing. Yay! Then The Professor tells me in detail how Warrior Princess only got sick twice last night, both times in the hallway, and how he cleaned up right away. I let him tell me twice, and then asked “So you didn’t have to clean any…

I’m going through the whole “what the hell am I keeping a diary for” phase again. This question has come up to plague me yearly since I started keeping this thing on line. I’ve come up with good reasons in the past. I’m just not sure they were valid reasons. Good and valid aren’t necessarily…

Actually, a whole bunch of stitches. I haven’t actually steeled myself to count them yet. The hernia repair incision ended up being a wee bit bigger than I anticipated, and my recovery from anesthesia a wee bit rougher. The did let me go from the hospital Friday night, but I spent all of Saturday moping…

Yet another draining session. This time we got 9.3 Liters out of me. My abdomen is really sore at the moment – it will take time for my guts to reconfigure themselves back into place. My lab scores continue to fall closer and closer into normal ranges. My bilirubin is still high (though not as…

Things are better than yesterday, but only because I refuse to return to the place that was making me miserable. It’s a situation akin to addiction; I need that place, but it’s bad for me. I need these people, I’ve come to rely on and place my trust in many of the regulars there. But…

Summer solstice has arrived (3:32 a.m. in my time zone). It’s an overcast solstice that misses the whole point of having a longest day of the year by hiding the sun in haze. Solstice always feels portentous to me, as though I were just on the cusp of entering something new and better. The feeling…