- Thanks to the one & only Jody Day for bringing this crowdfunding project to my/our attention: British journalist Kat Brown is editing a collection of essays by 15 writers on their experiences of infertility, childlessness, baby loss and almost motherhood, to be titled "No One Talks About This Stuff." Follow this link to find out more and how you can support publication! There are a number of different support levels and rewards, most of which include a copy of the book when published -- and one of the FAQs assures "We deliver to most countries worldwide," so it's possible for those of us outside the U.K. to participate and help out too. Let's do this! :)
- The covid/omicron news is increasingly dire, with new case numbers rapidly rising. :( (Bruce Arthur's column in the Toronto Star on Monday is titled "It feels like March 2020." Eeek.) Doctors are advising people not to travel internationally, and some aren't giving their blessings to domestic travel either. Of course, this is all unfolding just days before we're scheduled to fly west to spend Christmas with my family (after missing last year's Christmas for the first time in my life). I'm not going to cancel unless we're absolutely forbidden to travel there -- once we get there, we won't be going anywhere other than the grocery store and maybe the dollar store, and we're not planning to spend time with anyone else with the possible exceptions of PND & family (and we may have to rethink that). And we're getting our booster shots tomorrow, and they'll have fully kicked in by the time we have to fly back home, so that will help. But it still sucks. :(
- SO thankful my family doctor's office is now offering covid vaccinations, including boosters! Getting an appointment was totally painless this time around. SIL has been frantically scouring the internet for appointments since they opened up on Monday (finally found ones at a pharmacy for her & BIL tonight), and I've heard stories about crashing systems, etc. (Same song, second (third??) verse...!)
- Knocking wood here: my gallstones have not bothered me for several days now. (But I'm getting pretty sick of eating chicken, rice and toast...!) Praying that this continues!! -- especially while I'm at my parents' house. The closest 24-hour emergency room is 20 miles away in an anti-vax hotspot, and it's currently swamped with covid patients. No way I want to be anywhere near there...!
This is post #1,998 since I began blogging in October 2007! -- Two (2) more to reach 2,000 posts -- hopefully by the end of December/2021!
Fingers crossed that your gall bladder and its stones (sounds like a band!) continues to behave on your trip.
ReplyDeleteOmicron's high infection rate is scary. I heard someone say on the radio the other day that international travel is probably not an option for another year or two or three. Argh! It's not in the community here yet, but has arrived in the country and is in at least one of our managed quarantine facilities. Sigh. We're travelling north for Christmas, to an area that is a major holiday area for Aucklanders, and where vaccination rates aren't quite as high as the rest of the country (90% of adults and teenagers), so I think we'll be doing outdoor or at home activities only.
Oh man, chicken, rice, and toast... that would get tiring after a while. But yay to less gallstone issues! No hospitals, fingers crossed. Submitted to "No One Talks About This Stuff" -- sounds amazing! I'm in! Get more out there. :) Love the cover, too.
ReplyDeleteI am very frustrated by the COVID situation. I am trepidatious about what it means for school in January, and just as I got my cute snowflake masks in the mail we are switching to KN95s because of the guidance. Argh. We are laying low this break because it just seems like it's going to explode and we'd like to hermit away and try to avoid it... :( Huzzah for boosters without having to go to a center! Finally.