hr people are normal about it because they are robots but random middle manager always reacts like they never could have anticipated this. just let me take a couple days off next time bro

pointless story i'm just grumpy because my knee hurts

he is terminally ill, his kidney disease is extremely advanced, and we can't possibly know how long he has. but it's officially not an immediate concern

this resolves the moment that one of said very young children cries and my first instinct is to throw them out a window to make loud noise fucking stop. i would NOT be good at being a parent.

people are so kind to me even though they really have no reason to be. what the fuck. i need to do more nice things for other people

she was just stunned by how correct you were

i do feel a bit like this is a boy who cried wolf situation because this is potentially lorcan's third near-death experience. trying to remind myself that i was and am allowed to crash out because he is legitimately reaching the end of the road, even if he's stable right this moment

i started explaining my crude oil processing and consequently rocking and flapping my hands and they were like "i really love how happy this makes you!" help 🫥

idk what's going on yet because we won't have bloodwork results until tomorrow, but the vet was Extremely impressed by how much his demeanor has improved. she will probably not have good news but still. notable improvement