steel plates an d esophagus spasms

 4.5 hours of sleep.


Going back to bed was not an option. I am a grownup, allegedly.  I am the one who scheduled the endoscopic ultrasound at 8:00 in the $#$@*( morning.

I had time for a shower. The bus was VERY empty. The attitude at the hospital is MUCH more relaxed than when I got a test I probably did not need early in COV.ID 

Someone sent me this mask in the mail. I am very grateful, but I have no idea who to thank because the envelope was destroyed.
The Mask of the Day

Still smiling about the baby orca, the mom who carried her dead baby around for 17 days 2 or 3 years ago. I hope mom and baby survive both the navy and the wildfire smoke.. 


Also of course still muddling about transit. And tonight for the next in my series of "will work for sandwiches" home video conferencing usability exercises is tangled with so many dial-a-tirade themes that if I have the sense God gave goats, I will just GO TO BED and not even try to think until the super cloud passes. 


Have we already established that I DO NOT claim the sense God gave goats? On a twitter thread about smoke headaches, I said yes, as in it's a good thing I don't do firearms. And a snarky post on another blog is receiving favorable notice. Usually I do not post blog items to Twitter. i just let the interwebs find things. But...

As for the steel plates and the spasms: Dr was mostly reassuring before and also after about visuals. Or at least just talk over with new primary care Dr after lab results come in. But riding home through the part of Cap Hill that is just FULL of steel plates while one's esophagus is already grumbling.... And this is before acknowledging broccoli that may have been unrefrigerated too long.


But at least I needed one of my nice masks today.

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