Done Since 2019-06-02

[mdlbear]

Mostly a good week. I guess. Somewhat harrowing. Colleen is home, as of Friday.

She still needs a lot of care; she isn't yet strong enough to walk from the bedroom to her recliner in the living room without having to sit down a time or two along the way. (We have a wheelchair, paid for by Medicare. that we are I am using for that.) The big worry is my 50th college reunion -- I'm leaving a week from Wednesday, and will come back Sunday night. That's four nights that she won't have anyone sleeping with her. There are appointments with Palliative Care, her doctor, and probably Home Health coming up this week. We'll figure something out.

$GIG is converging -- we're into the second round of edits.

I think I'm more worried than happy at this point.

Notes & links:

0602Su
  * up 6ish; W=200.6, S=7:31; shower
  * Paid AMEX (due 0618)
  * SL: bread, English, garlic black bean sauce

0603Mo
  * Up 4:27; S=4:44;
  * 11:30 finished reviewing and responding to $EDITOR's comments in $GIG
  @ The Book No One Read - Nautilus - Pocket Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem
    Partial translation into English (by Dr. Frank Prengel)
    Wikipedia entry
  * _finally!_ made appointment to get Molly serviced.
  @ The Typewriter (a concerto for orchestra and solo typewriter) - YouTube f()
  / Great news -- all of Colleen's tests came out clear, and she's coming home Friday!
  / from search in nova:News/.outgoing -- 20 Oct 1997 was my post "To modern medicine"
    after C was hospitalized with peritonitis.  She'd been hospitalized exactly a month
    before with abcesses caused by acute diverticulitis - that post was 23 Sep 1997
  @ Researchers strapped video cameras on 16 cats and let them do their thing. Here’s
    what they found | Science | AAAS
    The use of animal-borne cameras to video-track the behaviour of domestic cats -
    ScienceDirect - unfortunately just the abstract for non-subscribers; $35 for full

0604Tu
  * Up 5:30; S=199.6, S=6:45;
  @ Facebook, Not Microsoft, Is the Main Threat to Open Source | Linux Journal
  @ ysabetwordsmith | Owning vs. Sharing
  * garbage cans to street before leaving
  * Bring down  ~ N's mail,  * weighted blanket
  * post C's status
  * went to hearing center; they said she'd have to get a new hearing test -> Next Tuesday
  * car transfer practice 1:15pm
  & managed to drop Cygnus while lunging to catch a falling object.  Was closed and
    asleep; seems to work except for some keys on the right of the keyboard.  :P
  * stay at Rest Stop overnight.
  * buy keyboard -> Logitech wireless with touchpad.  Not great, but it works.  BT ones
    are nicer, but can't use them until after boot.  :P The eyeglass toolkit I found is
    almost certainly inadequate.
  * order 17lb 48x72 blanket and duvet cover.
  % sleepy
  % back hurts.  Naproxen

0605We
  * up 5:30ish; ;
  % still somewhat sleepy.  Naproxen for back
  * 9am Molly's appointment at Bill Pierre Chevy -> got lost, of course.  :P
    -> early afternoon -> done around 10:30
  * stopped at Saffron to get C some takeout for lunch
  * had Indian leftovers for dinner
  * ... and in fact removing and replacing Cygnus's keyboard worked.  Whew!
  * load drugs (wasn't home Tu)

0606Th
  * up 5:30; S=6:27;
  @ jonw | Using the internet in a non-private world
  @ 
    EFF and the Internet Archive Present: Cult of the Dead Cow Book Event at the Internet
    Archive | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  @ Schools Are Deploying Massive Digital Surveillance Systems. The Results Are Alarming
    - Education Week scary, and outrageous
  @ A Git Horror Story: Repository Integrity With Signed Commits — Mike Gerwitz 
  @ Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong - Nautilus - Pocket 
  * leave at 4; pick up N on the way home; retrieve jacket and suitcase
  * blanket and cover arrived; put cover on blanket (with some interference from the cats)
  * N coming up for weekend

0607Fr
  * awake 5:30; cuddle Ticia.  She's very cuddly in the morning
  * up 6am; S=6:53
  * Scheduled C's followups with Palliative Care (Tu) and Dr. Rochier (Th)
  * bring (small) walker -> had to turn back for it
  ~ 4pm C discharged (after lunch)
  ~ Norco brought a wheelchair, but it's a 22" instead of a 20", and it doesn't fit
    through the bedroom door.  Not even close.  The 20" _might_.  (that's seat width)
    The power chair claims a width of only 24", so it might fit too.
  @ kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood: Curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in.
    " Falsehood articles are a form of commentary on a particular subject, and are
      appreciated by the developer community at large for their effectiveness and
      terseness. They're a convenient written form to approach an unfamiliar domain by
      dispelling myths, point out common pitfalls, show inconsistencies and subtleties. "
    " In a sense, Falsehood articles are a suite of wordy unit-tests covering extensive
      edge-cases provided by real-world usage. "
  * -> Yu Shan -> Snappy Dragon (alternatives were Saffron and Charmers)
  : The wheelchair bogged down badly in the gravel.  Have to fix that over the weekend.
  : The wheelchair does not fit through the bedroom door; C used the scooter to get to bed

0608Sa
  * up 6:30; W=202.4, S=6.6;
  * 11:45 C up and in her chair.  Sat in the middle of the walk; I was following with the
    wheelchair. 
  * V arrived ~noon
  * (V) load up C's drugs - get V to help.  We don't appear to have gotten her POLST from
    Prestige; grump.
  % Weird.  Not only does speaking loudly enough to be heard make me _sound_ grumpy, it
    actually seems to _make_ me grumpy.
  * make shuttle reservations for reunion
  * dinner:  fish (orange roughy), artichokes with homemade mayo (S, C's request).  Desti
    liked the fish; Ticia wasn't interested.
  / C went to bed 10pm

Comments

[kjn]

Here's to continued health improvements!

[mdlbear]

Thanks!