The dark sleek heads are risen from the water

[sovay]

Home from six days in hospital with a plan designed not to land me back there any time soon, I have been passed into the care of Dr. Hestia, who is already carrying out her duties with enthusiastic ministrations of purr. I have washed my hair for the first time in a week. I have eaten food prepared by my family. I napped like a stone in the late afternoon, which I will have needed since my regimen for the foreseeable involves a schedule of medications I cannot let slide even when some of them require me to be awake at hours I have preferred my entire life to spend unconscious. My calendar is inevitably full of further maintenance, but I am truly looking forward to an increase in conversations that have nothing to do with the monitoring of my vitals. Mostly I am marrow-tired and vague with new chemistry and glad to be home in my own clothes and drinking water I don't have to ring anyone to bring me in bed. I was not expecting and delight in the gift of a plush harpy eagle that arrived while I was away.

Comments

[selkie]

*hugs* It is true we hardly talked about your vitals. I sort of figured you felt maxed out on that subject.

Hail, Dr. Hestia, most intuitive and pastoral of voids.

[sovay]

It is true we hardly talked about your vitals. I sort of figured you felt maxed out on that subject.

I've got some! Who needs to know more?

Hail, Dr. Hestia, most intuitive and pastoral of voids.

*hugs*

[batdina]

so very glad you're home with Dr Hestia.

[sovay]

so very glad you're home with Dr Hestia.

Thank you. She is a force for healing even when she overstimulatedly bites my hand.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

I'm so glad to know you're home, that's excellent news! :D Yay for the kitty doctor and the plush harpy eagle! <3

[sovay]

I'm so glad to know you're home, that's excellent news! :D Yay for the kitty doctor and the plush harpy eagle!

Thank you! I'm so glad not to be in a hospital!

*hugs*

[rydra_wong]

I am glad Dr Hestia is on the case!

[sovay]

I am glad Dr Hestia is on the case!

She's even on my lap!

[thawrecka]

I'm glad Dr. Hestia is on the case, and the plush toy gift sounds cute.

[sovay]

I'm glad Dr. Hestia is on the case, and the plush toy gift sounds cute.

Thank you! It is a very impressive harpy eagle with which she wanted to play and I did not let her, even as her doctor's fee.

[thisbluespirit]

*hugs*

So glad to hear you are home again! <3<3<3 (Good luck with all the rest.)

[sovay]

So glad to hear you are home again! <3<3<3 (Good luck with all the rest.)

Thank you! I like being home!

*hugs*

[radiantfracture]

Hurray home! What a relief. (Knock wood.) The harpy eagle sounds like an excellent adjunct.

[sovay]

Hurray home! What a relief. (Knock wood.) The harpy eagle sounds like an excellent adjunct.

Thank you! It is currently occupying an adjacent shelf to the Paleozoic Pals, since Hestia desired to know it better and her talons are not plush.

*hugs*

[asakiyume]

A plush harpy eagle?! What a great gift. They are such cool-looking birds.

Keep up your good work, Dr. Hestia.

[sovay]

A plush harpy eagle?! What a great gift. They are such cool-looking birds.

It's a very cool-looking plush!

Keep up your good work, Dr. Hestia.

She has been most attentive and solar-powered. I can't believe it's almost autumn. This last week had more time than I thought in it.

[regshoe]

*hugs*

That is a lot! Glad you're home, and glad you have Dr Hestia.

[sovay]

That is a lot! Glad you're home, and glad you have Dr Hestia.

Thank you!

*hugs*

[cyphomandra]

I’m glad to hear you’re home with your dedicated personal physician!

[sovay]

I’m glad to hear you’re home with your dedicated personal physician!

Thank you!

[troisoiseaux]

Glad to hear you're home and in the care of Dr. Hestia!

[sovay]

Glad to hear you're home and in the care of Dr. Hestia!

Thank you!

[princessofgeeks]

So glad you are on the mend!

[sovay]

So glad you are on the mend!

Thank you! I did not enjoy my time spiraling.

[lokifan]

Oh man. Very glad you're back home!

[sovay]

Oh man. Very glad you're back home!

Thank you! Me, too! The experience had really lost its glamour.

[sabotabby]

Yay for progress!

[sovay]

Yay for progress!

Thank you!

[castiron]

Dr. Hestia will give you the best care; glad you're home!

[sovay]

Dr. Hestia will give you the best care; glad you're home!

Thank you! She settled firmly onto my lap as soon as it was home.

[umadoshi]

You're home!!! Hooray! I'm so glad you have Dr. Hestia keeping close watch. *hugs*

[sovay]

You're home!!! Hooray! I'm so glad you have Dr. Hestia keeping close watch.

I am! And very happy to be so! Thank you!

*hugs*

[a_reasonable_man]

I'm so happy you're home with kitty to cuddle!

[sovay]

I'm so happy you're home with kitty to cuddle!

Thank you! The absence of cat from hospitals is a major strike against them.

[gwynnega]

I am so glad you're home and being ministered to by Dr. Hestia!

[sovay]

I am so glad you're home and being ministered to by Dr. Hestia!

Thank you! The best home care, although Dr. Doppel-Abbie did heroic hospital duty.

[sartorias]

Huzzah! Wishing you swift improvement.

[sovay]

Huzzah! Wishing you swift improvement.

Thank you!

[davidgillon]

Hurray for home!

my regimen for the foreseeable involves a schedule of medications I cannot let slide even when some of them require me to be awake at hours I have preferred my entire life to spend unconscious

My mother was prescribed a bunch of stuff as "life critical and time critical" due to the ongoing endocrine weirdness, but checking what precisely was needed over a period of months (because getting care organisations to commit to giving meds at a particular time is all but impossible) actually turned up most of them not actually being time critical and the ones that were having quite a bit of leeway. So timing may potentially be something that can be nibbled at in ongoing discussions with your tame medics.

[sovay]

Hurray for home!

Thank you!

My mother was prescribed a bunch of stuff as "life critical and time critical" due to the ongoing endocrine weirdness, but checking what precisely was needed over a period of months (because getting care organisations to commit to giving meds at a particular time is all but impossible) actually turned up most of them not actually being time critical and the ones that were having quite a bit of leeway.

I am glad she was not in danger from a sliding schedule. I am under the impression I should be able to back some of them down closer to my regular schedule once I have established a more granular plan with my endocrinologist, but as I will not be able to see her for several days including the weekend, I was firmly instructed please not to fuck around and find out on my own. [edit: the medications in question are not specifically endocrine, they are the management of the symptoms of the uncontrolled thyroid such as landed me in the ER and then the hospital to begin with.] Frankly not having anyone wake me up in the middle of my sleep cycle and stick me with needles was such a nice change, I think I will be able to hack it.

*hugs*

[pameladean]

Ooof, so glad you are home with the cat doctor and other excellent family support.

I was glad to see in comments that your time-critical sleep-disturbing medication schedule does not involve any more needles.

I think of you a lot. *hugs*

P.

[sovay]

Ooof, so glad you are home with the cat doctor and other excellent family support.

Thank you! Hestia spent much of the afternoon in the back of my office chair, quietly present as cats are with one another.

I was glad to see in comments that your time-critical sleep-disturbing medication schedule does not involve any more needles.

I don't even have a problem with needles, but there were so many of them and I was on so much blood thinner. I'm not sure what I look like I lost a fight with. Some kind of mutant lamprey?

I think of you a lot.

I think of you, too. I hope you and yours are holding.

*hugs*

[swan_tower]

Yeeks! I am exceedingly glad you are home now, with your Hestia and your spatch, and I sincerely hope things improve from here.

[sovay]

Yeeks! I am exceedingly glad you are home now, with your Hestia and your spatch, and I sincerely hope things improve from here.

Thank you! My own bed felt incredible. I have a rushthatspeaks who keeps checking in on me, too. It is a much more pleasant support structure than three different departments of doctors.

[nineweaving]

So deeply glad you're home! Thank heavens for spatch and rushthatspeaks and Dr. Hestia on call.

*hugs*

Nine

[sovay]

So deeply glad you're home! Thank heavens for spatch and rushthatspeaks and Dr. Hestia on call.

Thank you! They are the best care team. And selkie on telehealth.

*hugs*