It’s nearing the end of a long day of many waiting rooms and confusing medical buildings and processes. Long long day with intractable worry about the future. But surgery is done.
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Heather
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In midst of a slow phase of reinvention that comes with retirement.
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Today's good thing: boycotts work. Many in the Canadian writing community boycotted the Giller Prize including writers whose works would have been contenders for the $100,000 award.
https://www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-end-giller-prize-boycott-say-demands-have-been-met/
Never thought I’d be happy to hear mister’s snoring start up next to me.
Everyday is a good day to be thankful, kind, and generous to an immigrant. And maybe think through how many generations you need to go back in your family to find the most recent immigrants. It takes one generation for my partner (prompted by the Suez Crisis) and five generations for me (prompted by the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo). Immigrants are great.
It's wild to watch dozens of nurses, doctors, medical clerks walking around in "mandatory mask" zones without any form of mask. There's a scattering of baggy blues, most not worn correctly. In a day and a half across 3 buildings (it's a warren), I've not spotted anyone else wearing a N95 mask. The sooner we get to discharge the better.
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@Heidiknits Thank you -- he's healing well all things considered and we've got a pretty good idea about what went wrong today. I'm hopeful that we'll be able to avoid another bout of pain related to digestion.
Ouch. All of the librarians working in Nova Scotia's community college system have been laid off -- the result of a very punitive and short sighted provincial budget. It looks like library technicians will hold onto their jobs for the time being but everyone with an MLIS will be gone.
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And the most surprising thing also came from a hard thing: Someone with no post-op appetite can set land speed eating records when offered a can of sardines. (I don’t like the smell of sardines so they’ve been a rare treat. But good nutrition plus his delight in them means I’m buying sardines for the duration.)