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Redbaron said:
Good morning! The tea caddy and coffee cart is ready, with all sorts of warming beverages and muffins to assist you in starting your day. Enjoy.

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Sounds good. Would love a good latte but I cannot. Intermittent fasting.
 
Luce NDs said:
That'd be breakfast on the other side of Mark Twain's world ... satyr-like loaded exposition?
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For me, it'll just be a late night snack. My breakfast today was corn bread & margerine and almonds. Morning snack was an Americano. Dinner was mandarin oranges. Afternoon snack was a fun-size chocolate bar. Supper was corn bread & margerine.
 
Last week I was bundled up in full winter gear, and shovelling for hours. Today, I need rain gear, and the real effort is avoiding puddles on my walk! Don't you love November? One of my sons is a geo-scientist, and he gave a talk to my sorority this week...focussed on climate change and things we can do about it. He is especially interested in Carbon Capture technology at the moment.
 
Tabitha said:
Glad your MRIs are done chemgal. You mentioned a student inserting an IV I think. As a patient you can refuse to have a student do a procedure. Given that you are special-with a rare condition-and bad side effects if things aren't done well you might want to consider that.
I had a hospital social worker remind me of the right to refuse when my daughter was in U of AH.
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She seemed so confident. Her initial assessment of where to go looked reasonable. A bit of digging I understand as many people do have to end up doing that and it works. By the time I felt the pop and pain I was too focused on trying to stay conscious.
You're right, probably a good idea to say not to the students for now.
 
Sooooo much frustration with the health care system.
I tried calling about my biopsy yesterday - that was about ~48 hours after my MRI results were in. Wasn't able to speak to anyone, left a message.
Called numerous times today and kept getting transfered around so I could speak to someone. The person who does the booking just hadn't looked at anything. She pulled up my info and say it was listed as priority 1. WTF? So like if I didn't call when would she have scheduled me? Next month, 2 months from now?
She also didn't pay attention to what else was needed. so when i was told to come in 30 min before hand I questioned that, that includes the IV meds I need? No. So showing up at 8 turned to showing up at 7 - and a different room, different floor right to start with.
Connect Care - the new system, thankfully shows up all appointments at the U of A hospital, not all hospitals are included yet.
It shows me as needing to show up at 8:15, nothing about the other floor or a 7am appointment.
So I call that department, they have no information on me. The booking person just thinks I can show up and tell them what I need? I don't even know what the specific dosing orders are for tranexamic acid via IV as that is always done in the hospital so I don't see it.

So biopsy is planned for Dec 3. Who knows though if I can actually get the IV appointment so that might need to be changed.
 
Ugh. The booking people are frustrating. In my experience, they are not people who know things. I hope you find someone who does know. Who is actually doing the biopsy? A radiologist did mine. Whoever is doing the biopsy or their assistant might be more helpful. Good luck.
 
On our way from Suwon to Seoul. It's our granddaughter's piano contest today. All the little seven year olds will play their hearts out. Winner take all.
 
Northwind said:
Ugh. The booking people are frustrating. In my experience, they are not people who know things. I hope you find someone who does know. Who is actually doing the biopsy? A radiologist did mine. Whoever is doing the biopsy or their assistant might be more helpful. Good luck.
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The radiologist and my hematologist had spoken to him already, he had notes for her. The person I spoke to at the outpatient IV lab was helpful and said she would look into it. I will talk to my nurse Mon or Tues and make sure that is dealt with, as I still see 8:15 listed.
 
Jae said:
On our way from Suwon to Seoul. It's our granddaughter's piano contest today. All the little seven year olds will play their hearts out. Winner take all.
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And... she won a trophy. Which means we got to stay longer, have lunch at a dumpling restaurant and win some prizes at a claw store. Life's sweet.
 
That's nice that your granddaughter was able to provide lunch for you. She must practice a lot. I have noticed in my neighbourhood that some Korean families do place very high value on music lessons. Does she have siblings who also study music?
 
Carolla said:
That's nice that your granddaughter was able to provide lunch for you. She must practice a lot. I have noticed in my neighbourhood that some Korean families do place very high value on music lessons. Does she have siblings who also study music?
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Chinese, too. They see it as encouraging discipline and hard work. At the same time, they discourage it as a career path. "Not a rice bowl" or something like that, meaning it's not going to put food on the table. Which is largely true save for a fairly small percentage of musicians. Most of the UU fellowship's pianists during my time in worship there had either multiple gigs or non-musical "day jobs".
 
Abstract or creative folk really are not the welcome for the production industry!

Yet they may have a nietzsche in franc hart!
 
Carolla said:
That's nice that your granddaughter was able to provide lunch for you. She must practice a lot. I have noticed in my neighbourhood that some Korean families do place very high value on music lessons. Does she have siblings who also study music?
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Thank you Carolla. Actually, I bought lunch. Her parents did buy coffee for us, and it was her dad who drove Yobo and I to the concert and back. In my experience, you're correct, music's a big thing here. She doesn't have any siblings yet.
 
I had a sad job to do this afternoon. My dog walking neighbour called me with a tearful request to help her get her poor old dog into the car to be cremated, as he'd just died. He was 10 1/2, in poor health, his cousin and lifetime companion had died just two weeks ago. So Lucy has lost her last friends, poor girl, and my neighbour, who has never married, has lost two fur babies in a short space of time.
 
No weight gain or loss to report this week. Which is the worst. When I lose weight, it's great and suggests that I'm a little bit healthier. When I gain weight, it's bad in a way, but at least I get the fun of eating more calories in the coming week. Staying at the same weight is just kind of a meh. Guess I shouldn't have had those midnight runs to Lotteria and McDonald's.
 
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