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How many of us are in a state of recuperation or fighting germs? I think Diane and I are the only ones not in recovery.

I hope you have fun at Universal Liz. About 8 years ago we went to do the Harry Potter attractions. Really well done! DD grew up in the Harry Potter years, as the books were coming out, and it was a huge passion in her youth, so I know a lot about HP via osmosis, although I didn't read the books, I went to all the movies with my kids.

I'm back at my Dad's house. Today was finalizing service with the pastor, and ordering flowers, and finding the phone numbers of some of my parent's friends. As I've said more than once since Thuraday, the person with the answers is no longer here. I did sleuth out the numbers: one friend has a son who is a dentist, so I called his office and left a message for his son, to tell his Dad to call my Dad. And he did. I heard him telling my Dad we've been friends a long, long time.My Dad is almost 88, his friend is 90. True, they've known each other since 1972, so yeah, a long time.

My Dad is still talking and talking. I'm so tired. DD has stepped up to be the ear right now, bless her.

My city is in pain. We who live here are in pain. I know the rhetoric is they're getting criminal immigrants, but there are multiple, indisputable examples of actual citizens being taken off the street and held for hours, and released hours and hours later when somebody finally checked their status. One of my friend's brother was held 6 hours, with no apology for being roughed up. Clearly there was NEVER a warrant for his arrest as he is neither a criminal or an immigrant. He was just snatched for being in the wrong place and wrong color. Another friend, whose daughter goes to a Spanish immersion school, had to turn around at drop off because the drop off line was swarming with ICE and he couldn't safely leave her there. Terrorizing 1st and 2nd graders.

Not much on my to do list tomorrow, except pick up the pasties (CC probably knows these from Michigan) a Finnish version of an empanada. The folded over pie pastry is filled with meat, carrots, potatoes, onions AND, what makes it Finnish, rutabagas.

My Dad said he was going to bed at 7pm. 45 minutes later, he is standing in the kitchen with his monologue going strong. I think he's winding down. Oh, he just looked at the clock: 7:45, I'd better get up there. Night Dad. : )

ETA: Nope. He's talking some more.

119.2, back down to my low!

Went to water aerobics this morning and it was chilly. Will probably go tomorrow and then not again until it warms up!

I finally went in to Urgent Care today. Had to go to 3 of them before finding one that accepted my insurance even though all 3 were listed as approved providers on my insurance's webpage! Grrrrrr! My abscesses were drained and I am on antibiotics. Hopefully this thing will finally be kicked. I'm feeling fatigued and somewhat congested again! Boooo! I guess I should have gone a week ago!

That nose irrigator has been so good for you! Glad you found it!

Good luck getting the rest of the Christmas decorations down and wrangling the heavy rugs!

201 this morning.

Swelling continues, but it sure did help getting Liz's timeline. It makes me feel like I'm on point with the healing process. I took the last pain killer around midnight last night. Switched over to extra strength tylenol today and it's working well.

I think when it's elective (or as BFF says, "self inflicted") surgery there is an underlying belief that recovery will be smoother, shorter, and easier. Once I had the surgery I could feel how very involved it actually was. It's amazing to me that I look as good as I do. I should look like a car accident victim, but I don't. Surgical skill matters.

CC, I hear you. I'm feeling a bit closed in myself and it's only been 5 days. However, the first time I had covid in March 2020, it took me weeks and weeks to feel well again. Even then, I had breathing issues well into the summer months. I can't imagine what it would have been like for me if I had still been a smoker! I think the first round of Covid is a doozy, vaccinated or not!

Diamond D, glad you were able to get home, if only for a short time. Being in one's own house is recuperative.

Liz, hope time at universal with DS is fun. I've not been. I still would like to revisit DisneyWorld in Orlando. I was there in the spring of 1994. So much more to see now, though some old favorites are gone (e.g. The Explorers' Club).

A mending Monday for me.

What the heck does that mean?