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Good Morning, Loungettes! Happy Twofer Tuesday! Pool testing day at school today. Yesterday about 20 kiddos got out of quarantine and came back to school. So many positive cases in the community, I expect today's pool testing will come back with at least one positive pool, if not both. I expect tomorrow will be busy with contact tracing and notification and reporting. I'm kind of hoping the powers that be will decide to extend winter break and close school next week, rather than go for 2 1/2 days. All of us nurses are wondering if we are going to be contact tracing/notification/reporting on Christmas Eve.

Got outside this ayem and caught some of the meteor shower. Saw 3 or 4 in just a few minutes.

Goldie--this was the first time Mom referred to Sadie as "that dog" with a tone of voice that people use when talking about something disgusting. I think it's the tone that bothered me the most. Too funny about DH ordering a bedpan, how would one use that in a car?? The CPAP noise can be considerable, I remember hearing it from down the hall from some of the nursing home residents who used it. I couldn't imagine being a roommate or bedmate of someone using one.

Karen--sounds like travel insurance is pretty complicated, but then, what isn't these days? I'm glad DD#1 isn't worried about the mammo results. I admire that woman who is focused on being alive. She has a great point.

Chi--interesting info about late periods and blighted ovum miscarriages.I never knew that. With so many ways things can go wrong it's amazing that any fertilization ends in a living child. It's a miraculous process.

Karen, I hope you are having a better day today. Unfortunatley, I think we are going to be dealing with all this Covid crap for a LONG TIME.

Sandy, interesting about the late periods.

NM, I didn't know about the meteor shower and when I saw your post, I went and looked outside, as it was still dark. Didn't see any tho. That was not nice of your mom, at all. It's not DH's machine that makes noise, it doesn't make any at all. The mask needs to be air tight, and if it's not, that is what is causing the noise. I forgot about the 12 days of Christmas cocktails. We did that last year.

Not looking forward to tomorrow morning, at all. I will have to start loading the car at 6, to leave by 6:30. I also have to get DH ready, dressing him, getting the bi-pap machine, water for it, helping him to the car, etc.

Change in plans. It's Tuesday evening, we are in Phoenix. Winter storm warnings for our travel area, 3-8" of snow across the rim. Leaving our house in the dark, which would be ok, but still early going across the rim, and dangerous. Road is pretty winding and too many people that don't know how to drive in the snow. Plus, it took a lot longer to get everything loaded this afternoon. I would never have made it by 6:30 am. So we would have been late for everything.

Minus, we will be here for 2 nights. I have my infusions (hercepting/perjetta) tomorrow, plus see the doctor. Then after that DH has his appt, like 3-4 hours long! Not sure what all this will entail. Then Thursday morning I have to go for an ECHO, and home after that.

Karen1956, I have had a sad, crying day today too. Let's hope tomorrow is better. I am avoiding the news for now.

Good morning, Loungettes! Happy Hump day! This week is feeling like it's been two weeks long already. The pool testing samples haven't been logged in at the lab yet, meaning we probably won't see results until tomorrow or Friday, and I am expecting at least one and probably both pools to be positive, so I know what I'll be doing this weekend. This waiting for the results is nerve-wracking. No testing next week, the state decided to not test since there won't be time to follow up before break starts. I am getting so tired of this covid crap.

Karen--February vacay is in Orlando, we're planning to do the Disney thing if they are still open. Hmm, I never thought of Mom being jealous of Sadie, but that really could be the case. I would usually say I was going home from visiting her to let Sadie out. I never took Sadie to her new apartment, knowing how much she didn't like dog hair or dog smell, or dog anything. 5 and half more days for me, counting today, unless we can get admin to go to break early and not do the 2 1/2 days next week. I am so sorry for your losses, and I bet dollars to donuts you are correct that the very first one was a miscarriage and not just a late cycle. Hugs.

Goldie-- I guess you will be just about getting up now to start loadiing the car and get DH ready for the trip to town. I think the nursing home folks had older machines, they were HUGE and the machines themselves made quite a bit of noise. I hear the machines are a lot better now. Still,noise is noise, and a real problem at night.

Morning, Jazzy

Goldie--woops, update, looks like you are already in Phoenix. Glad you didn't have to drive in the dark or in the storm. Also glad you won't be late for appointments.

Morning, Minus

Morning, Misty

Hugs, Kid

Chi--good grief, what a parking problem! People can be so self-centered.

In the 60s today, but the high winds are keeping it from being pleasant. We're in for even higher winds, with gusts of 60-70 mph tonight between 6p-3a. Straight-line winds, but they can still uproot trees and blow down power lines. Made sure all our flashlights are at hand with fresh batteries, and our power banks are charged up for our phones & iPad. Hope we don't have to head to the basement; at least we won't get more than a tenth of an inch of rain.

Obviously not grilling tonight.

High winds in Colorado too. In the Denver foothills upwards of 80-90mph. Not sure how windy it was in Denver, but probably 40mph.

Off day again today - Had 3 hour zoom department meeting which contributed to it. Last hour was really good. It was on gangs and a school in our district that is in a youth lock up.

After tomorrow I'm on winter break Since trip to see DD#2 (and overnight in each direction with DD#1 and SIL) canceled, most of the two weeks are time to putter in the house, some deep cleaning like dusting, going through stuff to donate or throw out. Need to start writing lists of what I put where. This week-end we are going hiking. It will be COLD, but no snow. I have plenty of warm weather clothes and if its sunny out, it will be great.

Israel has extended its border closer to foreign nationals til at least 12/29 and has turned several countries red which means Israelis can't travel to them. This is due to increasing cases in Israel, the UK, SA, UAE and other countries. Told DD#2 keeping our fingers crossed for summer.

Lori - hope all goes well with the appointments today and tomorrow. Glad you left before the snow.

Yesterday would have been my late FIL's 101st birthday. It seems so weird as he only lived to 62 - too short of a life and he was a dear man.

I have been under a lot of pressure recently at work. I don't have a clear objection to worry about nervousness, restlessness, and symptoms of autonomic dysfunction, such as palpitations, hand tremors, sweating, frequent urination, etc., and exercise anxiety. What should I do?

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Oh wow Jazzy. Thanks for posting. Yum is right. Were you at OldTown?

Late getting moving this ayem, just pooping in to post a DOTD, will ketchup tomorrow.

Lori - what a sweet oncologist. Sounds like the two of you have a great relationship. Your husband sounds like my late mother - when she went to her pcp everything was wonderful. I would have to speak up and "tell the truth". Her neuro-degenerative disease was different than ALS but horrid non the less. Glad your scan went well.

Good Morning, Loungettes!Happy Staturday! Ketchup day for me today, here and around the house. The weather has been going back and forth between snow/sleet/freezing rain to thawing/melting/black ice in places, with gusty, windy times in between.

Things at school have been up and down. The negative pool tests were great to get. Finding out the CDC will no longer be case managing the close contacts of school exposures was not. Guess who's been given job of daily symptom checks, quarantine follow up, test ordering?School nurses?Right in one! The Fed CDC has endorsed a test-to-stay approach for schools, meaning student who are close contacts of a confirmed case stay in school and get tested (at school by the school nurses who probably won't be able to have enough test cards due to the shortage) two or three days a week. The state Dept of Ed Nurse consultant has started saying that school nurses should continue to put off other work--like vision andhearing screenings, vaccination (other than COVID and chicken pox) tracking, and have teachers and office staff take over seeing kiddos with minor injuries, upset tummies, and administering medications needed during school hours. I feel like we're being told to give up doing school nurse work, and just be CDC extenders. The Maine CDC is putting out a new Standard Operating Procedure for managing COVID in schools during the winter break, to go into effect when schools reopen in January, and we're all wondering, and afraid of, what that's going to look like.

Then, yesterday, there was an apparently nation-wide Tik Tok challenge to bring a gun to school. So we spend the day in semi-lock down, made all the kiddos drop off their coats and back packs on entering, and we searched them all before letting the kids have them back. Over a dozen kids were kept home because of the threat. At least one gun was found being brought into a nearby middle school. Several schools in the area just plain closed for the day.

I was amazed how many students were totally aware of the challenge, but then it had been on the local news that morning.

But to finish the day, the teachers/staff had the annual potluck holiday lunch get together. There was some pretty good food there--mac and cheese, vegan scalloped potatoes, a homemade cheese ball, cookies, candies, and all sorts of goodies. It was a lot of fun to actually have some time to sit and eat and chat with people.

Karen--Lots of wind everywhere, recently, it seems! Enjoy your break time, as best you can without traveling. FIL sounds like a wonderful person.

Chi--sounds like you are well prepared for the windy conditions!

Goldie--wow, what a nice looking collection of fruit! Glad your appointment went well. Sounds like DH really had the whole treatment, and too bad you couldn't tell them what he can be like at home. People can be so very different with medical people than with their family members.

Thanks for the DOTD help! I did sleep in this ayem, quite late. And enjoyed it!

Good Morning, Loungettes!Happy Sunday Funday! Waking up to a couple inches of snow, an d still coming down lazily. Really slept in this ayem, didn't get up till 9! Of course, I was up and down until at least 2:30 ayem, just could not get comfortable, couldn't get my mind to turn off, and generally restless. Mom called yesterday and now her plan is for us to take a couple of 2 or 3 day trips, one in the spring and one in the fall, to "have something to look forward to." I think she's realizing that she really can't travel alone any more. I can understand her wanting to get away for a bit I just wish she had someone else to travel with. I'm going to let her plan the whole thing, she'll never get it all put together and maybe that will get me out ofat least the second trip. If she gets the first one put together, she'll never get the second one put together before I go back to work. And if I pick up summer school coverage, there won't be time for more than one trip. Mom doesn't know about the February trip yet. I did tell her quite some time ago that one was planned, but she's probably forgotten about it by now. At least she's not mentioned it.

I'm still waiting for Sadie nose nudges for ear scratches while I'm checking email and such in the mornings. And still saving the very last bite of whatever I eat for breakfast for her. The house still doesn't feel right without her. I got lovely cards from the emergency vet and from the regular vet. It's better than it was, but it's still hard being without her.

Goldie--what a hoot about your DH and his harem!