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1. I got wonderful postcards from oracne and misbegotten! Thank you!

2. MRI scheduled for tonight at 8:30. It is wonderful that this facility is open after normal business hours and on the weekends, making it easy for people who can't take off work to schedule imaging. But, lordy, do I not want to drive an hour away in the dark to get this test done. LOL *cross your fingers for me*

Biopsy consult scheduled for the 31st. Who knows when the actual biospy will occur. No one is moving with any alacrity. I am annoyed (but let's be real; this is indeed my default state LOL).

Still haven't gotten Emma's lumbar puncture scheduled. Cymbalta seems to be having minimal effect on her pain levels. :( Back to the meds drawing board for her, I think.

3. Today is Fiona's last day of school! She won eleventy billion awards at Awards Day, including several state awards (for math and for writing; her entry to the RESA Writing Contest was a kickass poem about an owl). She was also the Outstanding Third Grade Musician. *preens in the reflected glory*

4. Peacemaker is a delightful show that you all should watch. It has many things going for it: it is short (this may actually be the #1 selling point for me), it has a diverse cast (people of color, women, queer characters), it manages to be really endearing and heartwarming. I mean, I don't understand how the show manages this last exactly; it's some kind of magic (okay, it's really excellent writing and a truly stellar cast). The characters are mostly terrible people, and the show deals with some super heavy themes, and it's incredibly violent, and yet I cried more times than I would care to admit (I care to admit no times), I am charmed by all the terrible people (except the villains, obviously--caveat, Todd the Wraith has a special place in my heart always), and this show is just damn awesome. John Cena is a fucking amazing actor, and I never thought I would be saying that, but damn. Also Danielle Brooks. And Eagley. :)

5. So many books!

( Matrix (Groff), Victorian short stories, The Crime in Mind (Rodensky), Embracing Refuge (Janssen) )

1. The doctor did see some irritation in Josh's stomach during the endoscopy that he thinks is because of acid. So he's putting Josh on an acid blocker. And having him eat yogurt mixed with a little rice every day to prevent the return of the cdiff. He took biopsies, but we hope he doesn't find anything in those. It wouldn't be the end of the world if he found celiac, but Josh already had biopsies checking for celiac in an earlier endoscopy, so I'm going to be very surprised if this one finds it. Anything else a biopsy might find is DNW.

I'm hopeful that this will be helpful for him even if it's not the root cause of his episodes.

2.

Finding Refuge by Victoria Janssen

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This is so good. The basic story is that three freedom fighters are given the opportunity to start new lives and heal from their traumatic experiences, but there's so much richness packed into the novella.

This is my favorite kind of world building--no info dumps, no belaboured dialogue to catch the reader up. Everything about this universe is explained organically, and by the novella's end, there's still a lot of ambiguity about universe history and etc.

The novella is 100% character-focused which I love. Each of the three main characters is complex and interesting, and I am very much looking forward to reading about how they integrate into this new community they've found.

I teared up at the end. Just lovely.



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3. timespirit recommended CholestOff to me as a supplement to help me get my cholesterol down, and after reading the rave reviews, I decided to try it. *crosses fingers*

4. What are y'all up to this weekend?