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the_rckScott is back at work today. We were both worried about it because the stone hadn’t passed as of last night and because he was still hurting enough to know when the ibuprofen was wearing off. I don’t think he ever took any of the hydrocodone, though, so he wasn’t hurting enough to want that (and I don’t think he would go to work while on that. Hydrocodone and dangerous machinery are definitely unmixy things).
Scott was put in a difficult position last night because his ultra-conservative, very Christian boss put in a friend request to him on Facebook. Scott didn’t see any way he could say no, but he’s worried that his boss will react badly to Scott’s political opinions and that he will have to see a lot of stuff he considers unpleasant coming from his boss.
My sister called yesterday to check in because she’d heard about Scott’s kidney stone. Of course, a good bit of the call involved her telling me about her husband’s much worse kidney stone problems (he’s had surgery for them once and will need it again soon because he’s got a huge stone, too big to pass, that just hasn’t yet broken free, and for some reason, they can’t break the dratted thing up. They had to give him some sort of medication the last few months to keep the stone from shifting because him having surgery at the same time my sister did would have been Bad).
My sister thinks that the oncologist lied to me about the likelihood of a recurrence being lethal. He said it absolutely would be. She says that, based on the type of tumor (mucinous) I had and the fact that nothing got into my lymph nodes, it would just be another breast lump that could be removed the same way the first one was. I couldn’t have radiation again, of course, as they can only do that once for any given body part, hence the great care not to irradiate anything that they didn’t have to. I don’t know. I mean, I have gotten the impression, from all three oncologists I’ve dealt with, that they’re afraid that, if they don’t scare me enough, I won’t take this whole thing seriously. Which… Well, it’s pretty ridiculous. A small, slow growing tumor is still a freaking tumor.
Either our mail carrier is being extremely careless or they’ve decided they’re annoyed with us. We have a very small porch, just a little concrete block. Yesterday, we got a package, and it ended up on the ground to one side of the porch. I don’t know if that means the mail carrier tossed it at the porch and missed or if they put it on top of the mailbox and it slipped off or even if they did it deliberately. I would prefer to think it’s carelessness, and really, that seems most likely. But today, the mail carrier didn’t actually shut our mailbox (which has a drop down front because I can’t reach anything that only opens at the top, not at the height that our mailbox is at). A bunch of stuff ended up in the dirt. It was all advertising circulars, but I couldn’t tell that until I got down on my hands and knees to pick it all up. There’s at least a chance that one of the circulars got stuck in the latch of the box and that that’s why it dropped open again, but it’s still carelessness and isn’t something that’s happened before.
We’ve had this mailbox for about fifteen years. It’s a little fussy, and I know that mail carriers don’t like it much. It’s just the best thing we’ve been able to find that I can actually reach and open (and, given how close we are in height, Cordelia’s limited that way, too). Moving the position of the box is something we considered and discarded because of the difficulty/expense in dealing with the holes where the current box attaches to the aluminum siding.
My half-sister’s mother wants to buy Cordelia Never Alone for Christmas and has asked me if Cordelia would play it. I actually don’t know. The game looks gorgeous and intriguing to me, but Cordelia really hasn’t done a lot with game of that complexity. She does some simple games on her iPad mini, and she plays a lot of Minecraft online with her friends from school on the weekends, but other games… I’m not sure if that’s lack of access or lack of interest. We have a WiiU and a fair number of games, but she doesn’t play much, just some MarioKart when she has friends over. I think I may have to ask Cordelia’s opinion directly.
Scott was put in a difficult position last night because his ultra-conservative, very Christian boss put in a friend request to him on Facebook. Scott didn’t see any way he could say no, but he’s worried that his boss will react badly to Scott’s political opinions and that he will have to see a lot of stuff he considers unpleasant coming from his boss.
My sister called yesterday to check in because she’d heard about Scott’s kidney stone. Of course, a good bit of the call involved her telling me about her husband’s much worse kidney stone problems (he’s had surgery for them once and will need it again soon because he’s got a huge stone, too big to pass, that just hasn’t yet broken free, and for some reason, they can’t break the dratted thing up. They had to give him some sort of medication the last few months to keep the stone from shifting because him having surgery at the same time my sister did would have been Bad).
My sister thinks that the oncologist lied to me about the likelihood of a recurrence being lethal. He said it absolutely would be. She says that, based on the type of tumor (mucinous) I had and the fact that nothing got into my lymph nodes, it would just be another breast lump that could be removed the same way the first one was. I couldn’t have radiation again, of course, as they can only do that once for any given body part, hence the great care not to irradiate anything that they didn’t have to. I don’t know. I mean, I have gotten the impression, from all three oncologists I’ve dealt with, that they’re afraid that, if they don’t scare me enough, I won’t take this whole thing seriously. Which… Well, it’s pretty ridiculous. A small, slow growing tumor is still a freaking tumor.
Either our mail carrier is being extremely careless or they’ve decided they’re annoyed with us. We have a very small porch, just a little concrete block. Yesterday, we got a package, and it ended up on the ground to one side of the porch. I don’t know if that means the mail carrier tossed it at the porch and missed or if they put it on top of the mailbox and it slipped off or even if they did it deliberately. I would prefer to think it’s carelessness, and really, that seems most likely. But today, the mail carrier didn’t actually shut our mailbox (which has a drop down front because I can’t reach anything that only opens at the top, not at the height that our mailbox is at). A bunch of stuff ended up in the dirt. It was all advertising circulars, but I couldn’t tell that until I got down on my hands and knees to pick it all up. There’s at least a chance that one of the circulars got stuck in the latch of the box and that that’s why it dropped open again, but it’s still carelessness and isn’t something that’s happened before.
We’ve had this mailbox for about fifteen years. It’s a little fussy, and I know that mail carriers don’t like it much. It’s just the best thing we’ve been able to find that I can actually reach and open (and, given how close we are in height, Cordelia’s limited that way, too). Moving the position of the box is something we considered and discarded because of the difficulty/expense in dealing with the holes where the current box attaches to the aluminum siding.
My half-sister’s mother wants to buy Cordelia Never Alone for Christmas and has asked me if Cordelia would play it. I actually don’t know. The game looks gorgeous and intriguing to me, but Cordelia really hasn’t done a lot with game of that complexity. She does some simple games on her iPad mini, and she plays a lot of Minecraft online with her friends from school on the weekends, but other games… I’m not sure if that’s lack of access or lack of interest. We have a WiiU and a fair number of games, but she doesn’t play much, just some MarioKart when she has friends over. I think I may have to ask Cordelia’s opinion directly.
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Date: 2015-12-15 09:04 pm (UTC)But I will point the other stuff out to him. I don't think he's bothered with any sort of filters at all because he does a lot of stuff on his phone where it's harder to change settings and all that.
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