Thanks, Christina

It saddens me that people like you and your husband are caught in this pandemic mess having serious health issues to struggle with. I almost wish your state was more where mine is in the pandemic control, heading way down in cases, rather than up.

My local radiology group is open for routine mammograms. That's why I wish I could finally get one. I'm going to cross my finger that my gynecologist's office doesn't cancel my appointment next week. My appointment last week was cancelled because she was working at the hospital. Delivering a baby? Anyway, it was the fourth cancellation. I just want the tests over with. I'm glad Steve at least got some important tests done, and have new medications to try. You know that I, and all here, are pulling for both of you to find relief soon.

You brought up hobbies for hubby. You know, we can't even think of what we'd like to do. There's like no interest/excitement in doing anything. It's like we need some kind of kick start at some point. Plus, hubby has to work most of the day, during the work week. He does take long lunches, but that's all he can afford. His phone is ringing almost constantly. Every time it does, he curses, so that's a lot.

My husband had a bad stomach ache yesterday. He was blaming all kinds of things, including his medications, which I think he's wrong about. In any case, he didn't take any this morning. I reminded him that's not advisable, but he's stubborn. In the end, a heating pad on his stomach and sips of regular ginger ale seemed to help. I encouraged him to take today off to relax/recoup. The problem is that he barely has any time to take off. In the long ago past, people got X number of sick days, Y number of personal days, and Z number of vacation days. Now he gets zero sick days, and must take the personal days for that. And they don't get them to use automatically. They have to earn the hours for them. Basically, benefits at many companies are going down the tubes. The corporations give many employees less and less and yet don't pay them much more at all. Standards of living are going down down down, except for the richest in the country. Jeff Bezos is now a trillionare, while so many people aren't even given a living wage. I wish Bezos would abandon his stupid rocket to Mars project and contribute the money to something that actually helps people, and civilization, more. But no, he and Elon Musk have to play with ultra expensive little boy toys. If they think achieving such Mars projects make them heroes, I respond with two hearty New Jersey middle fingers.[Maybe one alone by a New Yorker carries more weight than one alone in NJ, but two together in NJ carries the most weight of all, I think in the world.]