Same here!
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Ok.
Thank you.
So today: one long blah.
It all started last night with no sleep. 4:30 am- starring at my eyelids, and stayed that way until 6:30. At 6:30 kiddo gets up, starts being “sick” and doesn’t want to go to school. I get coffee, wife assists as kiddo reluctantly bucks going to school. After a bit of inquiry- he skipped his science homework and didn’t know what to do. His science teacher is a passively adversarial twat, and really doesn’t seem to want to help an excellent student that is in a bit of a pinch due to circumstance beyond his control, and he’s afraid to go to school. Recognizing this, we keep him at home an extra half hour to do his homework and I drive him to school and assure him that we have him covered from all angles. He goes about his business and crushes a stats test in math class. Yay!
I return home just in time to take wife to radiation appointment, Dr. Consult day, and a 4 hr. infusion cuz she isn’t getting enough potassium and is dehydrated.
Home by late afternoon, just enough time to get more eyelids from 5:30ish till 7:00.
Was going to hit the gym after his therapy appointment (as I’m typing) from 7:30 till 8:30.
I wanted to do gym then therapy, but thats how today went. Just a big smear of life stuff that never actually ended yesterday, and won’t be actually over until I get a little more than just eyelid gazing. Probably a little later tonight.
So no gym tonight.
. Im ok with that.
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You’re a good husband and a good father. I hope you can sleep tonight. I’m thinking of you and your family How is your wife feeling after her infusion?
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Thank you. Kiddo is worth it 100%. I kinda consider him the unbroken version of me, and want to protect that.
Wife is doing pretty good. She was parched. Getting a litre of potassium chloride slow dripped in has her Pumped!
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Good. I’m glad she’s feeling better. 
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Thanks. Typically that wouldn’t be a problem, but she really can’t eat anymore and hasn’t adjusted to the feeding port thingy. Her throat, tongue and tastebuds are toast.
And liquid meal replacement has nothing on my beef & broccoli teriyaki stir fry.
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Obviously. Lol. Dehydration is yucky. It can really fuck with everything. I’m glad the infusion helped. How long will she have to be on the tube?
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It may be quite a while. That was left open ended (up to two years) on purpose depending on the success of the treatment and rate of healing
that takes place after radiation is complete and tumors are treated (gone).
If she was a 20 year old post drain cleaner SuperSkyz she’d already be pounding beers, starting bar fights and tapping ass.
As it stands, she’s only marginally super.
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Is there a projected timeframe for treatment? Or was that the two years? That seems like a long treatment plan. So maybe two years for everything to heal properly? Sorry if I’m asking redundant questions. Just want to understand.
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These are good questions.
This first course of treatment is on the 4th week of 7, then theres a series of evaluations and monitoring as the tissue turns over.
We saw the growths, which are actually reduced a bit at this point- on ct scan ladt week. It was explained then that they will be present for some time after the treatments are completed, and the follow up monitoring is to see that the tissue is returning to a normal density on the ct.
After that, we’ll see. There might be another course of rad/chemo, surgery, or a combo after some recovery time.
They keep it kind of fluid and under a lot of monitoring.
This too. The radiation is pretty intense. She has a bib now very similar to the flash burn I’ve gotten from welding without proper cover- which is kinda painful- once.
She’s getting zapped every day, so there’s going to be some serious tissue damage and internal scarring.
Edit: session is wrapping up in 2 min. Im going to be in transit for the next 20.
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I’m around. Just let me know when you are free if you want to continue chatting. You know how to reach me if you would prefer to chat privately. Don’t make no nevermind to me. 
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Thank you. I’m gonna browse, read, chill & eat. I designed a no leak ham & cheese melt and I’m dying to try it out. 
I laid out a quafoil of ham slices, then cheese on top of it, then folded the lobes in to cover the cheese & close the edges.
And hot sausage meat bars for breakfast roll ups.
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Dontchu don’t make me no nevermind me! I’ma fixin to make all kind of nevermind!
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Did you ever finish that hammer/mace thing from a while back?
I have not. I’ve doodled around a little with different types of cordage and braiding for the grip, bu no progress. I may have to drill another hole perpendicular to the one at the pommel to make it the way I envision it.
That reminds me though, that I need to go play in the shop some.
And I have a cool thought for making this kitchen knife that I broke into more like a tanto point.
I took befores of the reason (cracked the blade) for the redux:
And an approximate design of how I’d like to reshape it.
It’s a pretty decent steel from Chicago Cutlery and I could just never bring myself to throw it away.
Then after that line is cut, another tanto style at like 110° or so to the tip.
I’m not crazy about the roundedness of the edge, and really like the Japanese style of cutlery. Its like a preference for Long flat edge vs. parabolic or eliptical curves on western world style knives.
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Any time knives are mentioned, I’m in.
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Good. I’ll do that one on saturday and score myself a small victory, and share the results.
Its hard to set foot in our shop without getting neck deep into something related to commerce other than my little hobby projects.
Also, for @EmilyQ to pass along in case he doesn’t already know:
A thing for the WPAM at Frick Park.
I gotta quit doom scrolling and go to sleep. Maybe. I really hope. 
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The presentation already happened, but it could be good info for reference. They do some cool stuff and Morel Madness is also usually at the end of april/first week of may.
Thanks! I’ve passed it on.
I hope you’re sleeping the sleep of someone who is doing all he can and deserves his rest.
Although looking at the time, you’re probably doing the awake stuff of someone who has a school age kid. :-/
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Here’s the response:
I’ve been meaning to meet up with that group for a while. Yeah there are tons of edible mushrooms around here and it’s a cool little subculture
To which I replied that yes, so it seems.
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I did for a couple hours. Wife got kiddo off to school so I got to snooze through that part.
Yeah, I guess it is! .
Everybody goes out for morels. Its like the first day of trout fishing.
Then they all go away.
Then people who know go out for chanterelle. 
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