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I’d love to hear how? people are doing. Between virus, floods, fires, storms (locusts?) it has not been a great year. Are we all making lemonade with our lemons? ? I’m struggling a bit, with one daughter trapped in Scotland for many months and now just got out to see her dad in Switzerland only to be caught by the new quarantine regs for people coming from Switzerland back to the UK. One daughter still shielding with a very vulnerable young husband. My DH? stuck out in Geneva – we managed two good meetings over the summer but now every time I go out I’ll have to do 2 weeks quarantine on return (great excuse for more knitting time?)…… ? Meanwhile my mother fell over their elderly tomcat and broke her leg and detached her calf muscle. Two weeks in hospital, now home but not complying with instructions for full recovery. Didn’t do the cat much good either, and I had to take him and his elderly sister to the vet for their final farewells. Between us siblings, we managed to have someone in London with my dad for the two weeks until Mum came home, but with everyone at work this is not viable long term. Both parents clearly failing badly, lockdown has I think accelerated this. I seem to spend half of every day in communication with docs, optician, carers, social services, assessors of various kinds – and Mum herself who calls multiple times sometimes quite rationally but often not.? My current daily average of calls from or about parents is ten – excluding whatever the four siblings generate. ? They are now trapped in a? 3 storey house with stairs neither can safely climb, but still flatly refuse to relocate. We tried so often to tempt them to do the move some time over the last 8 years while they were still hale and hearty – but of course they wanted to wait until they “needed to”. Which was their right. ? I’m trying to knit on, as they say. Garter stitch is about all I can manage but there are so many clever patterns using this in interesting shapes and colour changes. At least I have plenty of yarn on hand ? ? How are all the kids of school and college age coping? In many ways I think it is hardest for them. ? Very best of wishes to everyone ? Jenny
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Jenny, I’m sorry to hear about your parents. Yes, it is very difficult to deal with parents who are adamant in doing certain things. We had that with my MIL and fortunately, my mother was wise enough to make the move when they were young and could adjust. That is why my father is here and we are able to manage. I am now doing all his medical appointments and healthcare work. Fortunately he is in good health but I can see that as his health degrades, things are going to become more involved and busy. I hope things work out well for them.?
My kids are fine. They are all working from home and staying put as much as possible. DD does socialize with a friend and has a room-mate. She is dealing with higher infection rates in CA. DS’s uni has opened fully and is being very casual about testing so he and his wife are also staying home and working from home, which they have been doing since March.?
So far no one we know has fallen ill. Our area had some bad rates in Apri/May due to the fact that we have a lot of NYC people who live here - weekend homes, commuters, etc. But now things are in very good shape - unlimited testing, infection rate at or slightly lower than 1%. So a lot of things are fairly normal with precautions but indoor capacity is limited to 50% and one can’t go and hang around at the library or other places.?
We are being very careful still due to my father who is 92 (will be 93 this year) and is really afraid of catching it. My sister - who has been living in her weekend home here since March - has been visiting him outdoors for brief periods every couple of weeks. They are going back to NYC tomorrow as schools are opening in person with a hybrid model for her son.?
Nothing much is going on here - my garden is in good shape this year as I have been home to tend it. We are planting a few more things this fall to replace plants that died years ago. I can baby them through next spring so I feel confident they’ll survive. Doing quite a bit of crafting of various kind - spinning, weaving, knitting
On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 10:52 AM Jenny Swanson < jenny@...> wrote: I’d love to hear how? people are doing. Between virus, floods, fires, storms (locusts?) it has not been a great year. Are we all making lemonade with our lemons? ? I’m struggling a bit, with one daughter trapped in Scotland for many months and now just got out to see her dad in Switzerland only to be caught by the new quarantine regs for people coming from Switzerland back to the UK. One daughter still shielding with a very vulnerable young husband. My DH? stuck out in Geneva – we managed two good meetings over the summer but now every time I go out I’ll have to do 2 weeks quarantine on return (great excuse for more knitting time?)…… ? Meanwhile my mother fell over their elderly tomcat and broke her leg and detached her calf muscle. Two weeks in hospital, now home but not complying with instructions for full recovery. Didn’t do the cat much good either, and I had to take him and his elderly sister to the vet for their final farewells. Between us siblings, we managed to have someone in London with my dad for the two weeks until Mum came home, but with everyone at work this is not viable long term. Both parents clearly failing badly, lockdown has I think accelerated this. I seem to spend half of every day in communication with docs, optician, carers, social services, assessors of various kinds – and Mum herself who calls multiple times sometimes quite rationally but often not.? My current daily average of calls from or about parents is ten – excluding whatever the four siblings generate. ? They are now trapped in a? 3 storey house with stairs neither can safely climb, but still flatly refuse to relocate. We tried so often to tempt them to do the move some time over the last 8 years while they were still hale and hearty – but of course they wanted to wait until they “needed to”. Which was their right. ? I’m trying to knit on, as they say. Garter stitch is about all I can manage but there are so many clever patterns using this in interesting shapes and colour changes. At least I have plenty of yarn on hand ? ? How are all the kids of school and college age coping? In many ways I think it is hardest for them. ? Very best of wishes to everyone ? Jenny
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Jenny sounds like this has been a rough patch for you - sorry to hear it.?
The hardest part of the pandemic for me has been not seeing my folks.y dad had a bad flare of pain after his sister’s funeral in November and, as a result, they ended up not coming out to California in January as is their usual. Which has worked out better as they would have been stuck in Palm Springs (like another aunt and uncle) where it’s 120 degrees today.?
So we are healthy, parents are healthy, no one close to us (Kina hora) has gotten sick. We have been completely hunkered down as infection rates here are so high - our socializing has been limited to one couple in the backyard at 12” away. I’m sure there will be a huge post-Labor day spike we’re in a huge heatwave and there’s tons of beach going and gatherings.?
Daughter’s school made the decision to go entirely online in August, which seems prescient as colleges are shutting down left and right. But she went back to Northampton and is living in a house with 3 other young women. It’s much safer there and she is so very very happy.
But I’ve buried the lead - I told my boss on Friday that I’m going to retire! I’ve been working from home since March and had actually postponed my retirement date from next week (on my birthday) until January. But they decided to move me to a different department and give me a new boss - after two weeks I decided I didn’t need the added stress of changing how I work only to leave, so it’s looking like mid-November now.?
Meanwhile I’ve been weaving lots and hoping to build up a stock to begin selling things once I retire. My pandemic knitting has been the Jewel Long Shawl - I’ve just started the second border.?
Hope you are all bearing up as well as can be expected. I’m looking forward to doing testing and phone banking for Biden from home and looking forward to our national nightmare coming to a close.?
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On Sep 6, 2020, at 10:57 AM, Jaya Srikrishnan <ermabom@...> wrote:
? Jenny, I’m sorry to hear about your parents. Yes, it is very difficult to deal with parents who are adamant in doing certain things. We had that with my MIL and fortunately, my mother was wise enough to make the move when they were young and could adjust. That is why my father is here and we are able to manage. I am now doing all his medical appointments and healthcare work. Fortunately he is in good health but I can see that as his health degrades, things are going to become more involved and busy. I hope things work out well for them.?
My kids are fine. They are all working from home and staying put as much as possible. DD does socialize with a friend and has a room-mate. She is dealing with higher infection rates in CA. DS’s uni has opened fully and is being very casual about testing so he and his wife are also staying home and working from home, which they have been doing since March.?
So far no one we know has fallen ill. Our area had some bad rates in Apri/May due to the fact that we have a lot of NYC people who live here - weekend homes, commuters, etc. But now things are in very good shape - unlimited testing, infection rate at or slightly lower than 1%. So a lot of things are fairly normal with precautions but indoor capacity is limited to 50% and one can’t go and hang around at the library or other places.?
We are being very careful still due to my father who is 92 (will be 93 this year) and is really afraid of catching it. My sister - who has been living in her weekend home here since March - has been visiting him outdoors for brief periods every couple of weeks. They are going back to NYC tomorrow as schools are opening in person with a hybrid model for her son.?
Nothing much is going on here - my garden is in good shape this year as I have been home to tend it. We are planting a few more things this fall to replace plants that died years ago. I can baby them through next spring so I feel confident they’ll survive. Doing quite a bit of crafting of various kind - spinning, weaving, knitting On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 10:52 AM Jenny Swanson < jenny@...> wrote: I’d love to hear how? people are doing. Between virus, floods, fires, storms (locusts?) it has not been a great year. Are we all making lemonade with our lemons? ? I’m struggling a bit, with one daughter trapped in Scotland for many months and now just got out to see her dad in Switzerland only to be caught by the new quarantine regs for people coming from Switzerland back to the UK. One daughter still shielding with a very vulnerable young husband. My DH? stuck out in Geneva – we managed two good meetings over the summer but now every time I go out I’ll have to do 2 weeks quarantine on return (great excuse for more knitting time?)…… ? Meanwhile my mother fell over their elderly tomcat and broke her leg and detached her calf muscle. Two weeks in hospital, now home but not complying with instructions for full recovery. Didn’t do the cat much good either, and I had to take him and his elderly sister to the vet for their final farewells. Between us siblings, we managed to have someone in London with my dad for the two weeks until Mum came home, but with everyone at work this is not viable long term. Both parents clearly failing badly, lockdown has I think accelerated this. I seem to spend half of every day in communication with docs, optician, carers, social services, assessors of various kinds – and Mum herself who calls multiple times sometimes quite rationally but often not.? My current daily average of calls from or about parents is ten – excluding whatever the four siblings generate. ? They are now trapped in a? 3 storey house with stairs neither can safely climb, but still flatly refuse to relocate. We tried so often to tempt them to do the move some time over the last 8 years while they were still hale and hearty – but of course they wanted to wait until they “needed to”. Which was their right. ? I’m trying to knit on, as they say. Garter stitch is about all I can manage but there are so many clever patterns using this in interesting shapes and colour changes. At least I have plenty of yarn on hand ? ? How are all the kids of school and college age coping? In many ways I think it is hardest for them. ? Very best of wishes to everyone ? Jenny
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Oh, Jenny. How lousy a time you are having. I’m so sorry. ? We are coping as best as can be expected Older Son invited us along on a beach outing. We didn’t go. As much as it would be possible to distance (they rented a house on the beach), getting there (9 hour drive) was problematic. So we stayed home. They arrived home last night. Kids are remote schooling back and forth between parents. ? Younger Son is studying for the bar exam (next month) and has taken on a new-to-him fostering experiment. Two week old kitten that must be bottle fed around the clock. I guess he figured he’s not going anywhere, so why not? Previous newborn kittens have come with their mother, so there was no need for a bottle. His “puppy” is growing by leaps and bounds and is bouncy and strong. We will be puppy sitting while he takes the 3-day exam. She is not accustomed to separation. I anticipate a lot of tears (hers and ours). ? Nothing else to report except that I am weaving (dishtowels) and mailing them to family (why wait for a holiday?) ? ? ? ? ?
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From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of Jenny Swanson Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2020 10:52 AM To: [email protected]Subject: [yarnmongers] How is everyone? ? I’d love to hear how? people are doing. Between virus, floods, fires, storms (locusts?) it has not been a great year. Are we all making lemonade with our lemons? ? I’m struggling a bit, with one daughter trapped in Scotland for many months and now just got out to see her dad in Switzerland only to be caught by the new quarantine regs for people coming from Switzerland back to the UK. One daughter still shielding with a very vulnerable young husband. My DH? stuck out in Geneva – we managed two good meetings over the summer but now every time I go out I’ll have to do 2 weeks quarantine on return (great excuse for more knitting time?)…… ? Meanwhile my mother fell over their elderly tomcat and broke her leg and detached her calf muscle. Two weeks in hospital, now home but not complying with instructions for full recovery. Didn’t do the cat much good either, and I had to take him and his elderly sister to the vet for their final farewells. Between us siblings, we managed to have someone in London with my dad for the two weeks until Mum came home, but with everyone at work this is not viable long term. Both parents clearly failing badly, lockdown has I think accelerated this. I seem to spend half of every day in communication with docs, optician, carers, social services, assessors of various kinds – and Mum herself who calls multiple times sometimes quite rationally but often not.? My current daily average of calls from or about parents is ten – excluding whatever the four siblings generate. ? They are now trapped in a? 3 storey house with stairs neither can safely climb, but still flatly refuse to relocate. We tried so often to tempt them to do the move some time over the last 8 years while they were still hale and hearty – but of course they wanted to wait until they “needed to”. Which was their right. ? I’m trying to knit on, as they say. Garter stitch is about all I can manage but there are so many clever patterns using this in interesting shapes and colour changes. At least I have plenty of yarn on hand ? ? How are all the kids of school and college age coping? In many ways I think it is hardest for them. ? Very best of wishes to everyone ? Jenny
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Sorry to hear about your parents Jenny. Mine did a similar thing, refused to move until it was way too late, will have to try not to do the same ourselves!
We are fine here in Port Macquarie, no COVID in our country town. Most of our state borders are closed so no trips for us apart from within the state (NSW).
We were supposed to be on our way to Europe but Australians are forbidden to leave the country unless there are exceptional circumstances. Wouldn’t really want to be there atm anyway.
The kids are fine. Daughter’s new house is just beginning to be built after the bushfires so that’s good. Poor Lara, DGD#2, 18, is having a horrible year. She is doing her final year of school & first the house burnt down, then the school was closed because the nearby river flooded, then Covid, more floods, Covid hot spot. She seems to be coping though.
Son in NYC & family are fine. DGD#3 is not going back to school physically but going to study online. During the summer the school has spent a lot of money setting online learning up.
Adam got a new job at a higher level in the UN, with UNICEF & is still working from home. Weird because he hasn’t met any of his new co-workers.
I hope all of you are well. I don’t post much but I’m lurking and reading all the posts.
Love to you all
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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....
Laura?
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Laura, 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....
Laura?
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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 | Mon 7:00 pm * | Tue 9:00 am | Mon 4:00 pm * | | Mon 8:00 pm * | Tue 10:00 am | Mon 5:00 pm * |
On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 10:12 AM Jaya < ermabom@...> wrote: Laura, 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....
Laura?
-- Jaya
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I would love to do this. I have classes T-Th evening so it’ll depend on timing. Thank you Jaya.?
I’ll chime in later on updates. Hugs to you all.? Nilda
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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 | Mon 7:00 pm * | Tue 9:00 am | Mon 4:00 pm * | | Mon 8:00 pm * | Tue 10:00 am | Mon 5:00 pm * |
On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 10:12 AM Jaya < ermabom@...> wrote: Laura, 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....
Laura?
-- Jaya
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I have another knit Zoom group Monday evenings. ?
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On Sep 7, 2020, at 10:22 AM, Nilda <nildamesa@...> wrote:
? I would love to do this. I have classes T-Th evening so it’ll depend on timing. Thank you Jaya.?
I’ll chime in later on updates. Hugs to you all.? Nilda
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 | Mon 7:00 pm * | Tue 9:00 am | Mon 4:00 pm * | | Mon 8:00 pm * | Tue 10:00 am | Mon 5:00 pm * |
On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 10:12 AM Jaya < ermabom@...> wrote: Laura, 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....
Laura?
-- Jaya
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And that doesn’t take Jenny into account...
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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 | Mon 7:00 pm * | Tue 9:00 am | Mon 4:00 pm * | | Mon 8:00 pm * | Tue 10:00 am | Mon 5:00 pm * |
On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 10:12 AM Jaya < ermabom@...> wrote: Laura, 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....
Laura?
-- Jaya
--
Jaya
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No, it doesn't take Jenny into account. Europe?+ Australia?+ US PDT doesn't work very well. I used to have to do this in China and I think, iirc, that I had to do 10 pm China time, which was 6 or 7 am US Pacific time depending on DST or Standard time. Australia is another hour beyond my time zone in China. For work, the guy in San Jose got up and participated at that time. I don't think it is reasonable for fun.
If both Beryl and Jenny want to participate, we have to do two different slots. Jenny is easy to work into a US set of timezones as her time zone is only 5 hours ahead of us and I think their Winter and Summer times change about the same time as us. Australia is opposite, if they do still change time. I don't remember if they did or not when I was working with people there.?
China and India don't change but we'll have to re-do our slots for the other Zoom call when we go back to Standard time.
On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 10:35 AM Laura Need < lrneed@...> wrote: 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 | Mon 7:00 pm * | Tue 9:00 am | Mon 4:00 pm * | | Mon 8:00 pm * | Tue 10:00 am | Mon 5:00 pm * |
On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 10:12 AM Jaya < ermabom@...> wrote: Laura, 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....
Laura?
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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 ?
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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
| Mon 7:00 pm * | Tue 9:00 am | Mon 4:00 pm * |
| Mon 8:00 pm * | Tue 10:00 am | Mon 5:00 pm * |
? 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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On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 10:12 AM Jaya < ermabom@...> wrote: Laura, 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....
Laura?
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Zoom first: don't worry about me - probably I would stay away anyhow, I still work a lot of hours on the computer and really don't enjoy socializing there.
Amy, congratulations on the retirement! What a concept - can't imagine when I'll be able to pull that off.
Update second. Jenny, I'm sorry to hear things are getting so difficult for/with your parents - not to mention being separated from DH so much! What a rough time.
I feel as though I *am* pretty much making lemonade from the lemons. Not that there aren't plenty of difficulties and disappointments - this week, I should have been on the North Yorkshire moors, walking the Cleveland Way with my sister. I'm being tortured by Instagram posts of the heather in bloom. Oh well, maybe next year. We haven't seen daughter Eve and her two girls since Thanksgiving, hard to see when that will be possible (they're in Colorado). But happily Emma and Hank are nearby and we're seeing them regularly. As many of you see on IG or FB regularly, Hank is just always a joy. Beginning tomorrow he's coming here one day a week for his morning remote school session (pretty amusing) followed by lunch and an afternoon of play with us here.
Jenny's parents' situation resonates with me. Mine are here on the property, in their own house - they are both 85 now, my dad in declining health with metastesized prostate cancer, my mother just, well- old and getting older. Although they seem to be coping pretty well with the pandemic-related isolation, it really isn't the best place for them for the long haul. Where we live, if/when they can't drive, life will get very complicated. And if my dad dies soonish and my mother's on her own, that will be difficult as well. There's a lot to take care of here, most of it now being neglected, by us as well as them. Eric's health, and ability to physically maintain the property, is ever declining.There *will* be more floods and more fires. After last year's flood we had some conversation about the idea of moving elsewhere and parents were adamant about staying - "dying here," as they put it. It's going to be rough on me. It's not the best place for me and Eric for the long haul either, for the same reasons, so I'm hoping I can initiate some real conversation about doing something different before too many years go by. I don't want to be trapped here ten years from now, and I don't want Emma to find herself in the same position I seem to be in, down the road, being the only or main support for ailing parents.
Aside from that - think I said this before to you all, but a silver lining for me these last months has been the extra time that has magically materialized from somewhere. I have never had more time for serious reading, writing, reflecting. I've done a lot of satisfying sewing and knitting. And I'm on a dedicated fitness kick, finding new gym-free ways to keep my body in good shape, inspired by watching my parents' and Eric's physical declines. Determined to be as strong and flexible as I can be for as long as possible. Daily yoga or pilates (there's lots of good teaching online), that kind of thing. Walking whenever I can. Staying out of chairs and off sofas as much as possible :-)? Yesterday I drove out to our beautiful coast, solo, walked a little, then sat on the bluff and read, wrote, and knitted for 3 hours, listening to the waves (111 degrees here at home, 72 there).
Now if we can just wake up from the nightmare this country is in in November, and somehow get into 2021 without a civil war of some kind. Through all of this, another fairly recent enthusiasm is a great help to me: an embrace of a kind of modern Stoic philosophy (if interested, Google around - there's lots of good writing about it). My dad's impending death? The natural order of things; when it arrives, I won't be surprised; every day, I'm grateful for the man he is and the father he's been. Donald Trump's possible reelection? Well, if that happens, I won't be surprised either, and I'll know that I did everything I could to prevent it.
Good to hear from those of you who are usually quiet - Beryl, Laura - and hope we'll hear from a few more!
Onward, Therese
Thérèse Shere
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On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 10:20 AM Amy Brotslaw Schweiger < brotslaw@...> wrote: What a wonderful idea. I’m in.?
Amy On Sep 7, 2020, at 7:16 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 | Mon 7:00 pm * | Tue 9:00 am | Mon 4:00 pm * | | Mon 8:00 pm * | Tue 10:00 am | Mon 5:00 pm * |
On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 10:12 AM Jaya < ermabom@...> wrote: Laura, 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....
Laura?
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I’m sorry to read that things are so rough for you Jenny, and about the extra challenges and frustrations the pandemic is bringing to others too. ? At the moment, we’re keeping on here.? After a lot of chaos and last minute insanity, both Baird and Ezra are physically back at school.? They drove out together (which occasioned a lot of the insanity trying to get in touch with anyone who could grant Baird permission to arrive early to accommodate Ezra’s class schedule) and survived the road trip.? Ezra’s school went from “everyone is welcome back” to freshman, transfer, international students on campus only, all classes virtual for the first module (first half of the semester), with other students able to petition to return.? Ezra felt strongly that he needed to be out of the house, which he was right about, so he asked to return and is now back on campus along with two of his close friends, and the first week of classes seems to have gone well.? About 25% of the student body is at Mac right now and they seem to have good protocols in place.? Carleton seems to have adopted more of a head in the sand approach.? Yes there is testing and mask and distancing requirements, but professors were allowed to opt to make classes in-person only, so although Baird had originally decided to stay home (but return from his leave of absence), he had to go back physically to take a class he needs for his major and his minor.? Carleton is going to have about 75% of the student body on campus, which is only slightly down from the usual 85% in any given term.? And yes, I am worried.? Especially worried about the possibility that the campus will close and I will need to find someplace for Arielle to stay and fly out to drive back with Baird if Macalester doesn’t close and send Ezra home at the same time. ? I can’t remember who mentioned the idea that this pandemic is especially hard (in a different way) on teenagers and college students, but based on my kids, I tend to agree.? Having the 3 of them home for 7 months was really hard on all of us, and I am hoping, for everyone’s sakes, that the boys are able to stay at school.? Arielle goes back and forth with how she’s doing. ?She had a group of 3 or 4 girls she was spending time with socially distanced over the summer but a lot of those families chose to take vacations so that’s been nearly nonexistent the last bit.? She starts school with a hybrid approach on Wednesday but we just don’t know how that’s going to work out or for how long.? Extracurricular dance class is currently a go with small sizes, masks, and extra precautions, and I’ve opted to allow that (her father disagrees) because in weighing the risks for our particular family, given that she is also going to school (which was also her choice in the face of her father’s opposition), it seems like the best choice to balance her physical and emotional health.? She hasn’t seen her father since February since Jemma is afraid of everything and even the several ideas I floated about outdoor distanced ways for them to spend some time together didn’t generate any interest on Jemma’s part, so I’ve given up on that. ? We did see my Dad a couple of weeks ago before the boys left and I’m hoping to get back down there some Sunday before it becomes too cold for outdoor visits.? That was really nice and he and his wife seem to be doing well.? Arielle and I have also had a couple of outings with Lise, who Arielle adores, which has been really wonderful too.? My dog training club has reopened with lots of careful measures in place (the average age of teachers and students for everything except the manners classes – and those are still virtual – is probably over 60, and the board and members seem to have a real sense of the importance of what to do so that we can stay open) and being able to go back to class with the dogs is really good for me.? ? My work really hasn’t changed much, so I’ve mostly just added juggling pandemic related things to the mix.? I’m still knitting a ton but not so much spinning or weaving lately, since I turned my ankle and have been babying it quite a bit.? Which did not stop me from agreeing to take Arielle and the younger dogs hiking at the Delaware Water Gap yesterday.? We had a wonderful time, I was glad we didn’t take the oldest dog (she would have been miserable) and I found out that an 18 or 19 inch (at the shoulder) dog can scramble up rocks much more easily than we can, so Arielle is busily picking some other rock scrambling hikes she’d like to do this fall too.? ? I’ve finally been dragged onto Facebook, kicking and screaming, so if anyone wants to find me, I’m Skye Wolf (yup, borrowing a dog’s name for my pseudonym because I don’t feel like being found by a bunch of people I went to high school with).? ? Melisande
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Melisande, sorry to hear how complicated and tough this all this on the kids -- but yeah, not surprised. Hope that Baird's and Ezra's school situations stay stable.
About FB - hate to tell you this, but there are several "Skye Wolf" profiles, including one with a naked profile pic. Which one are you??
-T. Thérèse Shere
Freelance indexing & digital information design
On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 12:13 PM Melisande R. Wolf via <melisanderwolf= [email protected]> wrote:
I’m sorry to read that things are so rough for you Jenny, and about the extra challenges and frustrations the pandemic is bringing to others too. ? At the moment, we’re keeping on here.? After a lot of chaos and last minute insanity, both Baird and Ezra are physically back at school.? They drove out together (which occasioned a lot of the insanity trying to get in touch with anyone who could grant Baird permission to arrive early to accommodate Ezra’s class schedule) and survived the road trip.? Ezra’s school went from “everyone is welcome back” to freshman, transfer, international students on campus only, all classes virtual for the first module (first half of the semester), with other students able to petition to return.? Ezra felt strongly that he needed to be out of the house, which he was right about, so he asked to return and is now back on campus along with two of his close friends, and the first week of classes seems to have gone well.? About 25% of the student body is at Mac right now and they seem to have good protocols in place.? Carleton seems to have adopted more of a head in the sand approach.? Yes there is testing and mask and distancing requirements, but professors were allowed to opt to make classes in-person only, so although Baird had originally decided to stay home (but return from his leave of absence), he had to go back physically to take a class he needs for his major and his minor.? Carleton is going to have about 75% of the student body on campus, which is only slightly down from the usual 85% in any given term.? And yes, I am worried.? Especially worried about the possibility that the campus will close and I will need to find someplace for Arielle to stay and fly out to drive back with Baird if Macalester doesn’t close and send Ezra home at the same time. ? I can’t remember who mentioned the idea that this pandemic is especially hard (in a different way) on teenagers and college students, but based on my kids, I tend to agree.? Having the 3 of them home for 7 months was really hard on all of us, and I am hoping, for everyone’s sakes, that the boys are able to stay at school.? Arielle goes back and forth with how she’s doing.? She had a group of 3 or 4 girls she was spending time with socially distanced over the summer but a lot of those families chose to take vacations so that’s been nearly nonexistent the last bit.? She starts school with a hybrid approach on Wednesday but we just don’t know how that’s going to work out or for how long.? Extracurricular dance class is currently a go with small sizes, masks, and extra precautions, and I’ve opted to allow that (her father disagrees) because in weighing the risks for our particular family, given that she is also going to school (which was also her choice in the face of her father’s opposition), it seems like the best choice to balance her physical and emotional health.? She hasn’t seen her father since February since Jemma is afraid of everything and even the several ideas I floated about outdoor distanced ways for them to spend some time together didn’t generate any interest on Jemma’s part, so I’ve given up on that. ? We did see my Dad a couple of weeks ago before the boys left and I’m hoping to get back down there some Sunday before it becomes too cold for outdoor visits.? That was really nice and he and his wife seem to be doing well.? Arielle and I have also had a couple of outings with Lise, who Arielle adores, which has been really wonderful too.? My dog training club has reopened with lots of careful measures in place (the average age of teachers and students for everything except the manners classes – and those are still virtual – is probably over 60, and the board and members seem to have a real sense of the importance of what to do so that we can stay open) and being able to go back to class with the dogs is really good for me.? ? My work really hasn’t changed much, so I’ve mostly just added juggling pandemic related things to the mix.? I’m still knitting a ton but not so much spinning or weaving lately, since I turned my ankle and have been babying it quite a bit.? Which did not stop me from agreeing to take Arielle and the younger dogs hiking at the Delaware Water Gap yesterday.? We had a wonderful time, I was glad we didn’t take the oldest dog (she would have been miserable) and I found out that an 18 or 19 inch (at the shoulder) dog can scramble up rocks much more easily than we can, so Arielle is busily picking some other rock scrambling hikes she’d like to do this fall too.? ? I’ve finally been dragged onto Facebook, kicking and screaming, so if anyone wants to find me, I’m Skye Wolf (yup, borrowing a dog’s name for my pseudonym because I don’t feel like being found by a bunch of people I went to high school with).? ? Melisande
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Yikes!? Ann found me!? I’m the Skye Wolf with a profile pic of a black and tan dog in an agility tunnel (it’s Kibeth). ? Ann – I waved in your direction from the top of Mt. Tammany yesterday and told Arielle that if we hung a left over the river we were sorta kinda nearish to a Monger.? She humored me ? ?
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From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of Therese Shere Sent: Monday, September 7, 2020 3:29 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] How is everyone? ? Melisande, sorry to hear how complicated and tough this all this on the kids -- but yeah, not surprised. Hope that Baird's and Ezra's school situations stay stable. About FB - hate to tell you this, but there are several "Skye Wolf" profiles, including one with a naked profile pic. Which one are you??
Thérèse Shere
Freelance indexing & digital information design
? ? On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 12:13 PM Melisande R. Wolf via <melisanderwolf=[email protected]> wrote: I’m sorry to read that things are so rough for you Jenny, and about the extra challenges and frustrations the pandemic is bringing to others too. ? At the moment, we’re keeping on here.? After a lot of chaos and last minute insanity, both Baird and Ezra are physically back at school.? They drove out together (which occasioned a lot of the insanity trying to get in touch with anyone who could grant Baird permission to arrive early to accommodate Ezra’s class schedule) and survived the road trip.? Ezra’s school went from “everyone is welcome back” to freshman, transfer, international students on campus only, all classes virtual for the first module (first half of the semester), with other students able to petition to return.? Ezra felt strongly that he needed to be out of the house, which he was right about, so he asked to return and is now back on campus along with two of his close friends, and the first week of classes seems to have gone well.? About 25% of the student body is at Mac right now and they seem to have good protocols in place.? Carleton seems to have adopted more of a head in the sand approach.? Yes there is testing and mask and distancing requirements, but professors were allowed to opt to make classes in-person only, so although Baird had originally decided to stay home (but return from his leave of absence), he had to go back physically to take a class he needs for his major and his minor.? Carleton is going to have about 75% of the student body on campus, which is only slightly down from the usual 85% in any given term.? And yes, I am worried.? Especially worried about the possibility that the campus will close and I will need to find someplace for Arielle to stay and fly out to drive back with Baird if Macalester doesn’t close and send Ezra home at the same time. ? I can’t remember who mentioned the idea that this pandemic is especially hard (in a different way) on teenagers and college students, but based on my kids, I tend to agree.? Having the 3 of them home for 7 months was really hard on all of us, and I am hoping, for everyone’s sakes, that the boys are able to stay at school.? Arielle goes back and forth with how she’s doing.? She had a group of 3 or 4 girls she was spending time with socially distanced over the summer but a lot of those families chose to take vacations so that’s been nearly nonexistent the last bit.? She starts school with a hybrid approach on Wednesday but we just don’t know how that’s going to work out or for how long.? Extracurricular dance class is currently a go with small sizes, masks, and extra precautions, and I’ve opted to allow that (her father disagrees) because in weighing the risks for our particular family, given that she is also going to school (which was also her choice in the face of her father’s opposition), it seems like the best choice to balance her physical and emotional health.? She hasn’t seen her father since February since Jemma is afraid of everything and even the several ideas I floated about outdoor distanced ways for them to spend some time together didn’t generate any interest on Jemma’s part, so I’ve given up on that. ? We did see my Dad a couple of weeks ago before the boys left and I’m hoping to get back down there some Sunday before it becomes too cold for outdoor visits.? That was really nice and he and his wife seem to be doing well.? Arielle and I have also had a couple of outings with Lise, who Arielle adores, which has been really wonderful too.? My dog training club has reopened with lots of careful measures in place (the average age of teachers and students for everything except the manners classes – and those are still virtual – is probably over 60, and the board and members seem to have a real sense of the importance of what to do so that we can stay open) and being able to go back to class with the dogs is really good for me.? ? My work really hasn’t changed much, so I’ve mostly just added juggling pandemic related things to the mix.? I’m still knitting a ton but not so much spinning or weaving lately, since I turned my ankle and have been babying it quite a bit.? Which did not stop me from agreeing to take Arielle and the younger dogs hiking at the Delaware Water Gap yesterday.? We had a wonderful time, I was glad we didn’t take the oldest dog (she would have been miserable) and I found out that an 18 or 19 inch (at the shoulder) dog can scramble up rocks much more easily than we can, so Arielle is busily picking some other rock scrambling hikes she’d like to do this fall too.? ? I’ve finally been dragged onto Facebook, kicking and screaming, so if anyone wants to find me, I’m Skye Wolf (yup, borrowing a dog’s name for my pseudonym because I don’t feel like being found by a bunch of people I went to high school with).? ? Melisande
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Purely deduction, Melisande. Had the handle, saw the agile pupper. Years ago when we lived in the Poconos, we spent significant time in the Gap on the PA side. Had I known you were there yesterday, I'd have waved from Little Gap ?.
Today, we stopped at our bank's ATM then drove home "the scenic way." Lordie, at the abundant signage for NMP!! That's some scary territory! Then there was the stretch with every property on the left, plastered with NMP and on the right with Biden signage. I'm thinking they don't have a lot of block parties along that stretch of road.
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On September 7, 2020, at 3:35 PM, "Melisande R. Wolf via groups.io" <melisanderwolf@...> wrote: Yikes!? Ann found me!? I’m the Skye Wolf with a profile pic of a black and tan dog in an agility tunnel (it’s Kibeth). ? Ann – I waved in your direction from the top of Mt. Tammany yesterday and told Arielle that if we hung a left over the river we were sorta kinda nearish to a Monger.? She humored me ? ? ? Melisande, sorry to hear how complicated and tough this all this on the kids -- but yeah, not surprised. Hope that Baird's and Ezra's school situations stay stable. About FB - hate to tell you this, but there are several "Skye Wolf" profiles, including one with a naked profile pic. Which one are you??
Thérèse Shere
Freelance indexing & digital information design
? ? On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 12:13 PM Melisande R. Wolf via <melisanderwolf=[email protected]> wrote: I’m sorry to read that things are so rough for you Jenny, and about the extra challenges and frustrations the pandemic is bringing to others too. ? At the moment, we’re keeping on here.? After a lot of chaos and last minute insanity, both Baird and Ezra are physically back at school.? They drove out together (which occasioned a lot of the insanity trying to get in touch with anyone who could grant Baird permission to arrive early to accommodate Ezra’s class schedule) and survived the road trip.? Ezra’s school went from “everyone is welcome back” to freshman, transfer, international students on campus only, all classes virtual for the first module (first half of the semester), with other students able to petition to return.? Ezra felt strongly that he needed to be out of the house, which he was right about, so he asked to return and is now back on campus along with two of his close friends, and the first week of classes seems to have gone well.? About 25% of the student body is at Mac right now and they seem to have good protocols in place.? Carleton seems to have adopted more of a head in the sand approach.? Yes there is testing and mask and distancing requirements, but professors were allowed to opt to make classes in-person only, so although Baird had originally decided to stay home (but return from his leave of absence), he had to go back physically to take a class he needs for his major and his minor.? Carleton is going to have about 75% of the student body on campus, which is only slightly down from the usual 85% in any given term.? And yes, I am worried.? Especially worried about the possibility that the campus will close and I will need to find someplace for Arielle to stay and fly out to drive back with Baird if Macalester doesn’t close and send Ezra home at the same time. ? I can’t remember who mentioned the idea that this pandemic is especially hard (in a different way) on teenagers and college students, but based on my kids, I tend to agree.? Having the 3 of them home for 7 months was really hard on all of us, and I am hoping, for everyone’s sakes, that the boys are able to stay at school.? Arielle goes back and forth with how she’s doing.? She had a group of 3 or 4 girls she was spending time with socially distanced over the summer but a lot of those families chose to take vacations so that’s been nearly nonexistent the last bit.? She starts school with a hybrid approach on Wednesday but we just don’t know how that’s going to work out or for how long.? Extracurricular dance class is currently a go with small sizes, masks, and extra precautions, and I’ve opted to allow that (her father disagrees) because in weighing the risks for our particular family, given that she is also going to school (which was also her choice in the face of her father’s opposition), it seems like the best choice to balance her physical and emotional health.? She hasn’t seen her father since February since Jemma is afraid of everything and even the several ideas I floated about outdoor distanced ways for them to spend some time together didn’t generate any interest on Jemma’s part, so I’ve given up on that. ? We did see my Dad a couple of weeks ago before the boys left and I’m hoping to get back down there some Sunday before it becomes too cold for outdoor visits.? That was really nice and he and his wife seem to be doing well.? Arielle and I have also had a couple of outings with Lise, who Arielle adores, which has been really wonderful too.? My dog training club has reopened with lots of careful measures in place (the average age of teachers and students for everything except the manners classes – and those are still virtual – is probably over 60, and the board and members seem to have a real sense of the importance of what to do so that we can stay open) and being able to go back to class with the dogs is really good for me.? ? My work really hasn’t changed much, so I’ve mostly just added juggling pandemic related things to the mix.? I’m still knitting a ton but not so much spinning or weaving lately, since I turned my ankle and have been babying it quite a bit.? Which did not stop me from agreeing to take Arielle and the younger dogs hiking at the Delaware Water Gap yesterday.? We had a wonderful time, I was glad we didn’t take the oldest dog (she would have been miserable) and I found out that an 18 or 19 inch (at the shoulder) dog can scramble up rocks much more easily than we can, so Arielle is busily picking some other rock scrambling hikes she’d like to do this fall too.? ? I’ve finally been dragged onto Facebook, kicking and screaming, so if anyone wants to find me, I’m Skye Wolf (yup, borrowing a dog’s name for my pseudonym because I don’t feel like being found by a bunch of people I went to high school with).? ? Melisande
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Me, as well. At least for the next couple of weeks.
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Ann? McManus
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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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