Commiserations.
November can be a very rough time.
Chez moi, I spent almost an hour chatting (by phone) with Decent Brother, and his hand is healing up nicely.
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Commiserations.
November can be a very rough time.
Chez moi, I spent almost an hour chatting (by phone) with Decent Brother, and his hand is healing up nicely.
I can’t imagine how you feel but I hope your memories of her also provide some happiness too.
Not really to be honest. Just painful to recall.
He visited the hospital (by appointment) on Friday, and they seem to have thought that his hand was (is) healing nicely, that it didn't seem to require a fresh dressing, and he was prescribed creams and antibiotics and painkillers, with instructions to contact the community nurse if necessary.
The pain has mostly eased, (replaced by an itch), but he lacks dexterity & strength in the hand that was burned (he said that while showering is now sort of okay, shaving remains an issue, - hence he has been using an electric shaver, rather than the manual razors he normally uses, and while zips and buttons are a bit easier, dressing is still a surprising challenge, as are shoelaces).
Nevertheless, having ascertained the sort of work he does - he is a lawyer with the local authority, and he admitted that much of his work in the Covid-era takes place in front of a screen - they declined to furnish him with a further sick note (unless there is a fresh deterioration), which means that he will return to work tomorrow (to his disappointment), and that no further hospital appointments are scheduled (unless they become necessary).
Nevertheless, for all of that, or notwithstanding that, he will stay away from cooking for another few days; takeaways make sense for now. Besides, the Le Creuset pots and pans that I gifted him years ago, (well, he also inherited some from me from the time we lived together) are a bit heavy for healing hands that still lack full strength.
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I hadn’t realised he was off work with it. Yes cooking would be a problem we have some Le Creuset stuff and it’s not light. Mind you it never gets used these days.
He has been off work for the best part of a fortnight, now, and has had three visits to see specialists in hospital, and a few (earlier visits) to his local doctor and local nurses who had insisted that medical specialists see it.
Well, with one functional hand, there wasn't much he could do, or, could have done, work wise, and he had been advised to be very careful with it, to keep it dry, and clean and raised; the first week it was very, very painful, and it was still a bit painful up to a few days ago, when the pain was largely superseded or replaced by an itch, which was probably a sign of healing.
Le Creuset is brilliant to cook with (no, agreed, it's not light), but you do need to be healthy (and focussed) to use it.
That is good news that Decent Brother's hand is healing up so nicely! These things take time, though...... I can imagine he would've liked to have gotten another letter requesting that he be off work for at least another few days.... Working from home, though, will be easier and more comfortable for him than trying to dress appropriately for the office and going in and dealing with things there.
Also, forgot to mention, good luck as I’m sure it will be a journey for you but it will also be worth it.
Thank you! Yeah, I think that’s why I’m so nervous cause I’m doing something new.
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How many dogs are losing it right now due to the clock change messing with their dinner hour.
How many dogs are losing it right now due to the clock change messing with their dinner hour.
I imagine it's hectic for many people and animals who are on schedules. I have extreme anxiety, so I'm prone to living by a certain schedule to maintain mental wellness. I'm not a fan of darkness at 6PM CST.
I guess my post didn't translate well. It always cracks me up b/c the time change messes with their chi. They are such creatures of habit and act like they've never been fed a meal in their lives if it's even 5 minutes late.
Ah. That's true. My grandma, her dog was always quite in a tizzy if she were off on feeding her by even a few minutes. A whole hour is a lot.
He may have to put in an appearance in the office once this week (files to be consulted) and he is not looking forward to that, between train travel (perhaps people stumbling into his hand), lack of masking or distancing, having to be - yes - attired sort of appropriately for the office, though I cannot imagine him being able to knot a tie with one hand more or less out of action.
You’ll have to order him a clip on! It’s years since I or anyone else has worn a tie to the office (except interviews). I’d be quite happy if they dropped the antiquated ritual altogether.
As he won't be meeting clients, or formally meeting colleagues, (he works as a lawyer with the local authority), or attending court, I think that he should be able to wear an open-necked shirt - or, a turtle neck (polo-neck) - with a suit jacket, or a tweed jacket without any issue. I'll suggest that to him.
Anyway, I think he is attending the office to consult files and material that cannot leave the office.
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This troll who is harassing me on YouTube by disliking this one video and tanking the like to dislike ratio and leaving nonsensical comments.
Managed to secure the last loaf (a brick like thing) of multi-seeded brown bread in a local bakery, by dashing out - briefly - between hailstone showers.
Is daylight savings time (and more broadly, the clock change) something nearly every American hates, yet somehow we cannot seem to eradicate it?
In the back of my mind, I seemed to have the idea that DST was only used in the U.S. and a few other nations. But looking at the map on Wikipedia, I see that nearly every European nation apart from Belarus and Russia uses it.
So I'll amend my question: every time the clock change comes up, I hear widespread bemoaning of the practice. Purely anecdotally, no one I know (online or off) seems to like having to change the clocks. Why is it that we (whatever your nation may be) can't seem to get rid of this practice if it is (apparently) so unpopular?
So I'll amend my question: every time the clock change comes up, I hear widespread bemoaning of the practice. Purely anecdotally, no one I know (online or off) seems to like having to change the clocks. Why is it that we (whatever your nation may be) can't seem to get rid of this practice if it is (apparently) so unpopular?
Well, in the US a few States and Cities abolished DST, so... there's hope.
California apparently voted to abolish it once, but it required the cooperation of the federal government so it ended there.
As far as I know, it was first introduced as a temporary war time measure in 1916 - in the middle of the First World War (and a year before the US joined the Allies) in the UK.
Personally, I dislike it for what it represents - the imminent appearance or arrival of winter, which I loathe, - rather than the actual fact of the clock being put back by an hour during the winter months. But then, I deeply dislike anything that calls winter to mind, and this is not something that clocks, or time regulation, can control (or assuage).
The thinking was to ensure that mornings remained more or less bright (which suited factories, and war work, and commercial imperatives) for longer than would have been the case had the clocks not been put back by an hour.