Barely tenured

I have a terrible problem with scratching open mosquito bites until they bleed. I also chew either nails or cuticles -- one or the other, typically, for months. My nails are grooved from the cumula...

I'm here. It's still here. Nuchal scan was entirely normal; ultrascreen came back with 1/4000 chance of Down's, 1/2000 of trisomy 13/18. I keep saying I'm trying to decide whether to get an amnio o...

I am still pregnant. So far as I know. Another ultrasound, nominally for nuchal translucency purposes, in a week. Cornell told me to start tapering off the PIO after the 9w1d ultrasound, but wanted...

The ultrasound today was normal. Normal growth, normal placement, normal gestational sac, etc. -- and a normal heartbeat pounding away 182 times a minute. I went straight to my first midwife appoin...

My grandmother died on Wednesday morning, as I was traveling. Beaker drove out on Friday with Miss T. We held the funeral mass on Saturday.Everyone who came to the wake was either a neighbor (they ...

At the end of Monday, things didn't seem too bad, all in all. I'd gotten through my grading. As long as I managed to scrape together two midterm exams on Tuesday -- when I wasn't going to be teachi...

I talk to either Ricky or Marina every three days or so. I call Ricky in the late afternoon, as he sits in my grandmother's hospital room. It's an isolation room, with double doors and (I presume) ...

I have been wanting to tell people, this past week. I am tired of living inside myself, of walking around worrying about things only I know about, of holding back.
I have become very aware of how i...

The good news: the book is in!
Even better, there was no co-author-on-co-author violence in the final days, despite the sudden (brief! it came back up! oh my god!) collapse of our version control ...

My grandmother has tuberculosis. Not unheard of in the very elderly, although more common in immigrants. Generally it's a reactivation of a previous primary infection. Since, in cases like this, it...