Me, as well. At least for the next couple of weeks.
Recap, please if you do it.
Ann? McManus
Ann in PA
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On September 7, 2020, at 12:08 PM, Jenny Swanson <jenny@...> wrote: Lovely to hear so much news from everyone. ? A group call sounds great, but better leave me out of it at the moment, my life is too uncertain. Maybe in a week or two……. ? Jenny ? ? And that doesn’t take Jenny into account... Laura
On Sep 7, 2020, at 10:16 AM, Jaya Srikrishnan <ermabom@...> wrote:
? I just did a quick search for today and found that it is quite possible, US EDT first column, Australia east coast second column and US PDT third column. We could go a bit later to accommodate people?who are working or pick a weekend day
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? On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 10:12 AM Jaya <ermabom@...> wrote: I thought I saw a new dog in your IG feed. I'm sorry it didn't work out. All the best to you in getting a new one and coping with work and the isolation through the winter. To all the Mongers: one of the groups I admin on Ravelry has been very active with Zoom calls since COVID-19 started. We meet for two 40-min sessions every Sat am US time which is Sat pm Indian time. That has been a very pleasant interlude for most of us who are either isolating by choice or by necessity - India has been on total lockdown without public transport and requiring only essential trips till very recently. It is essentially like a knit night - we knit (sometimes I spin) and we chat and we look at each other's work, discuss patterns, food, COVID-19, politics (occasionally and very superficially), books, TV, movies, etc.? If any of you are interested we could do the same for Mongers. It might be tough to work in Beryl and US PDT but early am US EDT might work. I can look into times if people are interested.? ? On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 9:28 AM Laura Need <lrneed@...> wrote: Hi, I’ve been reading through with interest - like Beryl, I’m a lurker these days. Jenny, it sounds like you’ve had a rough go of it, what with your parents, and everybody being scattered about and quarantined from each other.? I am so sorry and I hope your small menagerie is helping when you’re not on the phone.? I’m pretty isolated myself.? As you may know, my beautiful Golden died just before I had a knee replacement last November.? All of my attempts to adopt a new dog came to naught, as one after another candidate disappeared as I awaited yet another Rescue group’s approval process.? I even had a re-homed dog for a week, but she had undisclosed aggression, got worse every day as she missed *her person* (and couldn’t understand why he wasn’t there), and had teeth on my face by the end of the week she was with me.? I suspect she had acted equally aggressively towards her person’s wife, which is why the wife was re-homing her.? It was an incredibly challenging week, made worse by my “helpful” greyhound rescue neighbor who basically accused me of being irresponsible to return this dog to the people she loved. After I picked myself up And dusted myself off from that, and even had been approved for a rescue puppy, The pandemic started in full swing, and I realized I couldn’t give a new puppy the time she deserved as my hours might get very crazy indeed, and the Doggy Day Care I had used for Max was closed due to COVID (and even now is only open limited hours).? So I remain dog-less for now, but am hoping maybe next spring I can get one. ? Work is, well, work.? I still work several times a month in the hospital, in the nursery, and labor and delivery. Labor and delivery is an oddly high-risk location, as the risk of transmission from an asymptomatic laboring mother, panting, blowing, and pushing in close proximity to health care workers - sometimes for hours! - became quickly apparent.? At this time, all moms are either tested prior to a scheduled induction or cesarean, or are tested as soon as they arrive on L&D, which I think is standard now here for all the hospitals in Boston. ? At the beginning, as the hospital made lists of who could be pulled from their usual job to help elsewhere if needed, I had volunteered, as my pediatric cardiology background means I know more about ICU management, ventilators and lines than most average adult primary care doctors.? However, I fall into a rather high risk group If I were to get COVID, so the head of the ICU (who happens to be my pulmonologist) and my cardiologist both said, “No!? Thank you, but, please, no!”? Outpatient primary pediatric care Is an odd thing during a pandemic.? At the height of our shutdown, I was still seeing a handful of patients every day in the office - kids 2 yr and under who needed vaccines (because *my* patients are not going to get measles or diphtheria because of COVID, thank you very much!).? Everything else was converted to telemedicine from my kitchen and dining room, and my *job* was to manage everything remotely and keep the ERs as empty as possible.? Fortunately, with kids isolated from each other, the average constant background of infectious respiratory illnesses dried up essentially overnight. As the numbers in Massachusetts have gotten better, and we have slowly reopened, I now see all kids for physicals, and kids with non-COVID-like symptoms for urgent appointments.? However, kids with fever, cough, sore throats, diarrhea?? I can’t see those in my office without potentially exposing other patients, and the number of phone calls for those issues are ticking upwards as day cares and schools reopen.? All pediatric COVID testing is taking place at Urgent Care centers (commercially separate free-standing clinics), and, as I tell my patients’ parents, if your kid has a fever, the most important thing to do is make sure it’s not COVID. ? So we muddle along.? We also moved office locations In July - new, bigger space, More exam rooms, more ancillary staff to help get patients in rooms and help clean them afterwards.? It’s a good move, but a new space adds to the general dysphoric sense of being disconnected that I’ve heard from other outpatient primary care doctors. ? Parker is muddling through his early 20s, trying to figure out what he wants to do. Someday I hope he will actually have a job that pays him enough to cover his own rent and expenses.? He had flirted with the idea of using his Econ/Psych degree to go into business (investing), but over the past year, realized his lack of direction about finding a job was fueled by his feeling that much of business lacked a soul, and he didn’t think he could do that and live with himself.? So he’s been writing (don’t know about what...), and is about to move to NYC (staying w a friend) where he has a short term writing contract for something in the music Industry, with plans to move to LA w the new year. ? So I knit - some - and I read - some - and I walk - as much as I can - and I work. ? Not very exciting....
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