My Dad has a pressure sore, an expected but unfortunate consequence of his paraplegia, so he's been stuck in bed for the past couple of weeks and will probably spend the next few weeks in the same way as it heals. My Dad is hardly the kind of guy who likes to loll about, so he's starting to go a little stir crazy. Thankfully his sense of humor is ( Read more... )

I just finished my second term at Frontier Nursing University, enrolled in a Master of Science in Nursing program with the intention of becoming a certified nurse-midwife and women's health nurse practitioner. I did well both terms. I met great people at the orientation session back in late February, and took a brief trip to Philly in June to ( Read more... )

The Appalachians are not frozen, and in fact there is not now nor is there forecast to be any appreciable temperature difference between San Francisco and Hyden, Kentucky for the time that I'll be traveling. I'm so pleased ( Read more... )

Very few days have passed since I boldly claimed that I'd never be returning to the East Coast during winter ever again, and yet in a few minutes I'll be buying a ticket to go to frozen Appalachia at the end of February.

But I think I can forgive myself for the change of heart, considering I'll be going there for my orientation to midwifery school ( Read more... )

unsound and I had a really, really nice Christmas visit to New Jersey, hanging out with our respective parents and having amazing food, lots of good conversation and laughs, and great scotch.

( Then we tried to fly home on Sunday. )

Today I went down to the garage to get into my car, and noticed to my horror that both my and unsound's bike racks were empty; I called him in a panic as I was driving away from the garage to say that I thought our bikes had been stolen but that I had to go to work and couldn't investigate further ( Read more... )

An MRI a few days ago has revealed that my faithful MS med of the last eight years[1] has pooped out on me; according to the radiology report of the scans, I've got a "significant" increase in lesion activity in my thoracic and cervical spine and a couple of new lesions in my brain. Thankfully I still feel mostly fine; the most obvious thing I can ( Read more... )

So I've got a tough scheduling decision to make at work, and I'd appreciate any and all advice ( Read more... )

Last night, at work, I had this conversation ( Read more... )

ME
Hey, even though there's no Sox game tonight, we could watch the Giants/Astros opener instead. Tim Lincecum's pitching.

MY DAD
Oooh! I've always wanted to see him.

(later, as we watch the game)

MY DAD
Y'know, "Lincecum" is a funny name[1]. Oh, and there's one of the Molinas ( Read more... )