Couch 161: The Hexagonal Pyramidal Couch

I don't speak mandarin exhankster. I need an app for that.

Wow - I never would have gotten any of that. Thanks for the explanation and the kind words. Unfortunately puns and punctuation are deal breakers for me - as my lack of love of freud and goal of non emotion would be for you I imagine.

Was Shakespeare really the right person to say that brevity is the soul of wit?

But said by Polonius -so there is that
This business is well ended.
My liege and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time.
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief: your noble son is mad.
Mad call I it, for, to define true madness,
What is ’t but to be nothing else but mad?
But let that go.

SD — know that I’m valiantly fighting the urge to do hugs at you and throw in an “Aww” for additional (horrifying, no doubt) effect.

good lord - do you hate me so?

I feel kind of stupid now for calling t yesterday. The Dr yesterday just really scared me and I kinda lost it. Kinda nothing, I lost it. The CDC doc relieved my mind so much today.

I gotta say, having h in the hospital has been quite conducive to my working on eating less. I got on the scale this morning for the first time in awhile and I have lost 10.5 lbs since I started eating healthier and walking 3 weeks ago. I have not seen this weight in soooo long I was amazed. Oh I've also been parking on the top level of the parking garage and taking the steps both down and up each day. (3rd level). Just thought I'd report in about that, too.

Don't feel stupid, Art! I think just about anyone would have freaked out in your situation. I would have! Hindsight shouldn't negate the very valid feelings you had at the time. It sounds like H is going to be okay, which is great. Feel good about that versus beating yourself up for yesterday.

Also, way to go on the weight loss! That is really impressive.

Thanks Daisy. He's sleeping now, never an easy thing to do in the hospital.

Agreed on all counts. And I think it's fine to still see T on Wednesday, if you're wondering about that, too--you've had an extremely stressful week...

oh man, i didn't realize she was sick for so long. was it on and off or pretty continuous? And 9 weeks in a hospital sounds like my worst nightmare.
i was going to bemoan the fact that it must be SO BORING to be stuck in a hospital (and in isolation even more) when you feel okay for, 10 days...but then see he might be discharged tomorrow. Do they have any idea how he could have picked this up?
lol
*shudder*
ME TOOOOOOOO. I was so sad when she couldn't do Saturdays anymore. Now it is Monday evenings as i rush from work. Blah.
MC has lost major points with me over all this, but this is hilarious. Me and my T (and her H even more so apparently) are definitely among "The libbiest lib who ever libbed." lol.

Don't feel stupid! That is an extremely stressful thing to go through. I immediately texted my T (bc i knew she was in session) when I got into that accident last week. She didn't have any openings for the day, but minus calling my boss, it was the first thing i thought to do.

Also: Rock On for losing 10.5 lbs!

Edit: I haven't done an epic multi-quote in awhile

That was an impressive epic multiquote! Being in a hospital for a long time is a nightmare scenario for me, too...The 4 nights I was in there when I had D were awful (my only hospital stay, thankfully--C-section, so was allowed 4 nights). I know this isn't the same thing, since it would have been for mental not physical health issues: but when my ex-T suggested to me, "Would a hospital stay be so bad?" when I was struggling a year ago, my response was, "YES! Do you not know me at all???"

yeah when my T was most worried about me she was like "I KNOW you don't want a hospital stay," and she is sooooo right.

Yeah, hospital stays are no fun. I imagine that regular hospitals are both better and worse than psychiatric hospitals for a litany of reasons. My only experience is psychiatric.

In T news, Luc's choice emailed me again. He said that he might try to clear out some time in his calendar to see me mid February in a way that seemed very kind. I'm going to call the clinic and I may be able to make this work schedule wise.

Thanks, LT. Yes, I have! And you know me well, I was thinking I should maybe cancel Wednesday. I'm going, though. And it's catching up to h now. He's sleeping really well right now, I'm thinking about heading home and doing a load of laundry before I go to our friends house for dinner/wine. At least now I won't just sit there and bawl into my wine....

Very impressive multi-quote! We asked the CDC guy and he said in an isolated case there's really no way to know. H delivers packages for his job all over the Southwest, so it'd really be hard to know. They suspect he ate something that had it, although that's not even definitive.

doc finely got back to me and my ekg looks like i might have had a heart attack but the blood work showed it was not recent but i guess the ekg is very abnormal again so it is a rush back to the cardiologist again to see what is going on . they were suppose to have fixed me

(((granite)))

Well I'm not going to say that a heart attack is good, but I'm glad to hear that it wasn't something worse. I hope you're able to get everything resolved, granite.

And I have an appointment with not Luc's favorite Friday at 5pm

He's my second favourite!

She had previous bouts of cancer that were a few years apart and then it was found to have metastasized to other areas - that was the 4 year part - the long time in the hospital was for surgeries on several areas at once. And for that 4 year period - it was constant treatments - like whack a mole.

ugh, that is awful. i am taking myself out if i ever get cancer. i couldn't handle all that.

i think i've talked to my mom more this week than i have in the past year...

Anyone make biscotti? The crispy kind that won't dissolve when you dunk them in coffee?

I am trying to distract myself, so I'm trying orange cranberry ginger biscotti. They're in the oven for the first round of baking right now. My grandmother used to make fabulous biscotti, and I was thinking of her, so I decided it was time to learn.

I'm wondering if it's as easy as it seems (pretty straightforward!), and wondering if the dough was supposed to be as moist as it was when I rolled it into logs. It was pretty sticky.