things i learned from four and a half hours in the ER other than i still can’t stand being around people plaguewave or no because people

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Not for me, I'm fine.

"Sweetie" seems to be the default phrase uttered from nurse to patient, at least 'round about these parts, in the nomenclature. Also, "honey" as in, "Oh, sweetie, I'm just here for your blood now bleed for me honey BLEED FOR ME."

Perhaps most shittily, I learned what missing lunch with T1D is like: already told K that when, in five to ten years (five, probably, due to my unknown lineage and indeterminate makeup – I'll tell that story sometime) I have to have a colonoscopy and can't eat for a weekend or whatever, we'll tie me up Larry-Talbot-in-ABBOTT-AND-COSTELLO-MEET-FRANKENSTEIN-style and lock me in a room for that day or two for the safety of myself and those around me – hanger, thy name is Tyler.

Non-ER related: HALO debut was solid. Felt like a cut scene in the game that wouldn't let me play the first (awesome) sequence but they made the right decision in taking off the helmet: a needed transition to the filmed series from the gamefeel aspects of the first half, a clear sign that this is its own thing. Cut scene feel vanished once the helmet came off. Loved the audio easter eggs.

We still have heat, hot water, and refrigeration. My car runs. My grandfather's elbow has healed / something to something / turbines to speed / roger, read to move out etc etc the day does whateverthefuck it's going to do, the day the day.