This is me and Teresa behind me, about to start sit-r-cise on Wednesday. I did pretty well, considering how little action I'd really been doing lately. However, the story continues, as you may have heard, with an Xray of my chest the next morning, after a bad night of fevers, and again no Covid, no flu...but now pneumonia!
All good news
- The Yurok Tribe lays 11,500 pounds of native plant seeds along the Klamath River.
- A federal court rules that the president overstepped his constitutional authority in freezing most spending on U.S. humanitarian work abroad that Congress appropriated for this purpose.
- Transgender service members stay on active duty as a federal court blocks implementation of the president's ban on trans service members while litigation proceeds.
- The House reintroduces the bipartisan CROWN Act, which would ban discrimination
- against individuals based on their hairstyle or hair texture due to their race.
- Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), new senator and ex-CIA, critiques the anti-democratic actions of the current president.
- AZ: A circuit court strikes down two state laws intended to suppress voters.
- CT: The governor's bipartisan working group for Ranked Choice Voting is working collaboratively across party lines.
- NJ expands early voting opportunities for primary elections.
- NY: Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D) holds Know Your Rights forums to provide accurate immigration-related information to New Yorkers of diverse national origin.
- San Francisco celebrates Women's History Month in diverse and creative ways.
- Montgomery and Selma, AL host a weekend of events commemorating the 60th Bridge Crossing Jubilee and Bloody Sunday.
- Rural organizers and grassroots leaders in the U.S. form the Rural Defenders Union to support under-resourced anti-authoritarian actions.
- Across the U.S. and the world, scientists, researchers, and those who support science protest the current administration’s research-funding cuts, federal layoffs, and obfuscation of facts.
- Principled artists–including Rhiannon Giddens, Renée Fleming, Ben Folds, and Shonda Rhimes–resign from the Kennedy Center and cancel appearances in protest of the president’s takeover of the board.
- Pope Francis rebukes the U.S. president’s harsh immigration policies and refutes a close-minded interpretation of Catholic theology by the vice president.
- In honor of Reading Month, 60 volunteers show up to a Michigan elementary school to read with third-graders.
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So here I was, at the hospital from Thursday afternoon till Saturday afternoon...very well cared for by great staff from all departments. I had quite an adventure, got many tests and good news from most.
Here I'm holding a device which delivers cardio and pulse-ox info to the nurses station by radio waves, rather than having the readout in each room as well as the bells...and maybe another readout at the station. I hated it before I got it off finally, it was like carrying a kitten that was hanging by those leads stuck to my chest and I couldn't stand up without holding it (I guess some gowns come with a pocket for them)...and sleep meant moving it as I turned over all night.
Shows the places for the stuck on leads all over my torso!
Came home on a sunny warmish day and couldn't get to sleep because of being tired and yet amped up on steroids. I'm sooo glad to be home again.
Stories of hospital life will wait for another post.
Back to my original format...
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Today's quote:
Extend the circle of “us” to include as much of the world as you possibly can.
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Today's art:
and how it also reflects off an earlier potter woman in England,...
by Clarice Cliff, 1899
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Family album:
Son Marty and granddaughter Cayenne, several years ago! She has graduated college and is living on her own and working a great job.
One thing that happens when I go to the hospital is getting to talk to my sons on the phone. I got caught up on some of the family doings. Need to work on more frequent calls. They are busy people!