Quote of the day

rowanf: This too shall pass.

mdlbear: I just hope it passes in the right direction.

Colleen: progress

Working from home this afternoon, since I had to go to Colleen's nursing home for a care conference at 2:00. No point spending another hour driving when I could spend it working. The care conference is still pretty upbeat -- they say that once she can stand up and stay standing for 2 minutes she should be able to walk.

The big news is that she doesn't need a crane to hoist her in and out of bed; she can use a "sliding board". That's huge, because it means that she doesn't have to wait for them to find the lift, and then track down people who can operate it.

She's also going to be working with two of the male PTs, and they'll be pushing her pretty hard. That's good, too: Colleen's a waterfall, and a woman is going to be more inclined to go easy on her when she's crying. That's not what she needs right now: she needs boot camp.

We're still concerned about the draining infection in her wound; the wound care nurse will come by to look at it this afternoon, but she has no fever and apparently this kind of thing isn't too uncommon.

Done yesterday

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Umm... it's been a busy day. Tomorrow will be busier, but at least I can work from home and save an hour's worth of commute time. So posting yesterday's doings is necessarily coming a little late. OK, a lot late.

I was basically OK, maybe a little down, most of the day, but got rather little done. Quite a lot of singing for Colleen; singing always helps. One episode of coasting slowly to a stop during my walk; I have no idea what caused that.

Lots of mudita around a co-worker's move from research to rather high management (head of a new division). Berna is blonde and bubbly, with a high soprano voice, a Turkish accent, a PhD in computer science, and a string of publications and patents that's simply amazing.

On IM with pocketnaomi, I think I managed to give us both a little more hope. I, um... hope I did, anyway. Hope is elusive. Like cope, it's been in rather short supply recently.

Sang for Colleen.

River: safety

I'm a loner, maybe not by nature and not by choice, but I got used to it. I think it took me two or three decades to learn what Colleen knew from the start: that the safest place in the world is in my lover's arms.