Lights are on. Anyone home? Who is here and what are you up to? How are those around you?

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So this last month has been going on for a year or so and that kind of fits with the past couple years being both a decade long and just a couple of weeks at the same time. →[More:]

I took my wife to ER (I know it is mostly called ED for Emergency Department now but thanks to advertising for boner pills ED just makes me think of sad not boners...) on February 13 and I spent the night there and walked home in the early hours. She had emergency surgery the next day and got out on the 8th of March. She has been doing so much better now that she is home. Her appetite is back and things are getting back to closer to normal.

The surgeon has a decidedly not Anglo-saxon name and my wife heard it as Eminem. So Dr. Eminem he now is. He later told her she was remarkably present and clear for someone in such a state of distress. She is surprised by this as all she remembers of that first few days is pain, and an opioid high where she watched the vines growing off the bed and covering the walls and nurses and Dr. Eminem.

After she was gone for a couple of days the cats had reactions to the changes. Caspar is one of the happiest cats I have ever met. He purrs all the time. But, he is also intelligent and Very Serious Cat. Every day he would come to me every 20 or so minutes and bonk me and check in. Things had changed and it worried him. He came to bed every night but did not do his long kneading and purring thing.

Possum was messed up by all this. He arrived here in very bad shape but he has settled in to a good life and all of a sudden that got turned over. Every night he came and clung to my leg for the entire time I was in bed and he spent as much time as possible curled up in the cat bed under my desk by my feet.

Nora? Well Nora was Nora. Mostly concerned about finding snacks although she did come for scratching more than usual and she has got right back into jumping up to sleep next to my wife on the couch.

We have been doing blood tests and daily wound care visits. My wife's staff sent some very nice notes with a card. Her employer has been great.

It has been a trying time but oddly, and maybe somewhat macabrely, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was very helpful. I would come home and doom scroll the war and feel better. It sounds bad but watching the videos of a shooting war reminded me that my problems are not unique and all of us just keep stumbling forward until we can't. Seeing that other people are going through trials kept me from getting maudlin or too far up my ass.

Ginger, Pan, and Rocky have emerged from another winter and are OK. Someone new may have arrived. Cat food was on sale so I got 8 bags, 96 kg. Maybe I should write about the cats again. It’s been awhile.

Still dealing with the fallout of my brother in laws death and the police investigation and making sense of the forensics I’ve culled from his electronic trails and waiting on more info from the coroner.

Hear is a trance song from KEY4050 - Good Morning. I would like to be up in front of a crowd again.