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Ouch…Elliot…Ouch

Knee needs to get a life. OTOH, wouldn’t we all love to have a memory like this?   THE DAY It wasn’t a bad writing day at all, and ended with having a terrific chance to sit down, have coffee…

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Not the Best Day

THE DAY The knee was a major reason why.  Several nights in a row now with very little sleep and waking up to find the knee locked, very painful.  After not hearing back from the internist, I just made a…

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Lost Weekend

Great old movie about alcoholism with Ray Milland, and while I wasn’t even close to tipsy, the entire weekend got lost in a blur of getting things ready for the husband’s lab party thing and then the aftermath.  It was…

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Running Subcuticulars

THE DAY I remember the first time a resident taught me how to do a subcuticular stitch.  It was so bloody cool.  It’s also difficult to do well, but the idea you close a wound by hiding the stitches.  You do that by…

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Work-Arounds

THE DAY It’s what I spent the day doing, devising work-arounds for the situation into which I’ve written myself.  Granted, this is only the outline, but if it doesn’t work here . . . So that was it.  Well, and…

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Dead Stop

It was not a good day. THE DAY So the outline came to a dead stop.  We’re talking DEAD.  STOP. Now, on the one hand, you can look at this as a catastrophe.  On the other, though, you can look…

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What Was I Thinking?

THE DAY What was I thinking? In a fit of misguided support for the husband, I volunteered us both for the 5K Double Helix run tonight.  Now, let’s be clear about one thing: neither of us has run for more…

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Getting Back into the Swing of Things

THE DAY So I see that I was sufficiently flummoxed not to have posted anything yesterday.  My bad; I’ve been so good but broke that danged streak again.  I think I was just tired.  We had a lovely time with…

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Family Visits

So nothing was done.  Maybe…250 words, but they don’t really count at this point because I had no time to give this thing any kind of sustained attention. THE DAY Got up early and tried to pound out at least…

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M-in-L

THE DAY My mother-in-law is here for the weekend, so I made sure to get cracking early today.  Did just fine, and would’ve done more but there were other things to attend to (dinner, challah, cocktails: the bare necessities of…

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