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Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

—orc Fri Oct 31 23:59:10 2025

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

—orc Fri Oct 24 20:59:30 2025

Cappuccino

I stopped by a coffeehouse on the way home from a (routine! No medical emergencies today, thank goodness!) medical appointment and ordered this coffee. It was very cozy to curl up in a comfy chair and sip this while reading social media fluff on my phone.

(Not to be all mystical or anything, but since transitioning moments like this feel much more intensely proper. Nature is healing for me, I guess, thanks to modern medicine and – at least briefly – a government that wasn’t invested in trans genocide.)

—orc Tue Oct 21 17:53:04 2025

(Approximately) Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

It’s been a week. I was discharged from the (Big Yeet)hospital Monday afternoon (suck it, fash, you didn’t make me illegal soon enough!) and not more than 10 hours later I was back in the ER with the first of two gallbladder attacks. I came home on Tuesday, but by wednesday the second round of gallstones was rolling down that pipe and it was off to the ER again, followed this time by being admitted to the hospital to have my gallbladder yanked out on thursday AM, and then after an overnight stay (half on a broken hospital bed that kept triggering bed pump errors EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR, and then after I got up and was wandering the halls to stay away from the thing, on a replacement bed that didn’t, thankfully, throw loud errors every hour, I was finally discharged from this (different) hospital on Friday afternoon.

Eventually I remembered that it was friday, but before I got Dust Mite (shown frowning disapprovingly at my discharge paperwork) photographed and onto the web friday was but a fresh memory.

(not one I’m likely to forget soon, given that the surgeon has punched 5 holes in my abdomen to get at and remove the offending gallbladder and they keep very pointedly remind me that I use my abdomen whenever I want to get out of bed or stand up out of a chair.

At least my repaired genitalia haven’t decided to fall out. Yet.

—orc Sat Oct 18 00:26:25 2025

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Dust Mite & I went to the hospital on Wednesday; me for The Big Yeet, dust mite to chaperone me. And here we sit two days later waiting for my remanufactured bits to heal up to the point where I can walk without them falling out :-)

And; best decision, no regrets, probably should have done this a decade ago but the best time to do it was when I got it done.

—orc Fri Oct 10 17:41:20 2025

There’s a moon in the sky

—orc Tue Oct 7 22:13:54 2025

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

—orc Fri Oct 3 23:25:21 2025

It’s winter squash pie season!

A vegan pumpkin pie, based on a recipe from the internet and the pumpkin pie recipe in the joy of cooking. It uses coconut milk, so it’s got approximately 10,000 grams of fat :-)

—orc Thu Oct 2 22:19:24 2025