Transfusions

The trip across the Bay Bridge is becoming both extremely aggravating and boring. We have the routine down pretty well. Head out of the house, pick up lattes at Peet’s to make the ride bearable, swing by NB ride share to pick up a couple of passengers before heading to the freeway, the Bay Bridge and the SF side of the Bay.

Once again, George didn’t have much for blood, so it was platelets, two units of packed red cells  We didn’t even get on the road till 1830 so it, again, was a really long day. More so for him than me, but still. When the highlight of your day is pizza for lunch, you know you are in spinning-your-wheels-mode.

Add on top the As pitcher totally blowing up, resulting in the Astro’s wiping the As 15:0. Not fun. actually sad. And a testament to the fact that somedays, they just don’t have it.

 

 

About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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