Update on my ex-husband
I spent the earlier part of today sitting in on my ex’s first home sessions with a nurse and then a speech therapist. So I decided it might be time for an update here for those of you who are … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Me, myself, and I
Red boots
I first saw professional Russian folk dancing when I was a child in the late 1950s, when during Khrushchev’s cultural “thaw” the Moiseyev Dance Company came to New York. The performance I attended (with my family, of course) was in … Continue reading →
Stories that don’t much interest me
One of the main tasks of a blogger is deciding what topics to cover. It’s not as simple as it may seem. Sometimes there are stories so huge they cry out for coverage, even if everyone else is writing about … Continue reading →
Traffic here has been somewhat down …
… and I wonder why. It had been stable for years and years, but has dropped off about twenty or twenty-five percent. Maybe people on the right are taking a breather, now that Trump has been elected. Maybe it’s just … Continue reading →
“I’m going to grab your vitals”
I recently had the experience of spending a great deal of time visiting a hospital and a rehab hospital due to the illness of my ex-husband and the fact that I was the only person geographically on the scene. I … Continue reading →
Update on my ex-husband
Yesterday my ex-husband did indeed manage to get out of the rehab hospital and come home, against their recommendations. Without going into details, I’ll just say it was a very stressful day. I don’t know how it will ultimately go. … Continue reading →
AOL dialup is ending
Are you kidding me? Dialup? It was still around? AOL dialup is sort of like the coelacanth, but its days are numbered: AOL, the company previously known formally as America Online, is discontinuing its Dial-up internet service after 34 years. … Continue reading →
Yahoo has once again decided to “improve” things
Suddenly, without warning, Yahoo has introduced a new and vastly inferior email format. And this comes after many other “improvements” over the years that are anything but. For example, just recently Yahoo kindly added a seemingly useless and unnecessary step … Continue reading →
Fashionable memory
From commenter “Ruth,” on the Saturday Night Fever Open Thread today: Ten seconds of that video and I’m back to 1977, sitting in a packed theater beside my sweetheart. I have on my brand new Christmas boots – black, high … Continue reading →
Medical update for today
Regarding my ex-husband’s treatment in the rehab hospital – I didn’t mean to give the impression that my ex wasn’t walking at all. He has PT every day where he walks with a walker, practices getting up and down, does … Continue reading →
Medical update on my ex
A bit of clarification on yesterday’s post … Yes, the rehab hospital has all sorts of equipment that would allow them to help a person walk safely without a walker under supervision. But they say they will not use it … Continue reading →
No medical news today …
… so far on my ex’s stay at the rehab facility. One thing I see that’s a potential problem is that, although he was walking on his own until he had the health crisis (partly caused by dehydration) this past … Continue reading →