I also want to hug the Corgis. We are of one mind on all of the above.

This was the toughest week we’ve had at work, with record numbers of patients and nowhere to put them. We started the week seeing roughly 50 patients at a time in our 22 bed ED, and by Tuesday, we had been boarding admitted patients overnight in the PACU, or as most people know it, the recovery area where people go…

This is not true, though. Wills are not filed with the recorder’s office, where the public records are. If they are filed at all before a person’s decease, it is with the probate court, and only the court, the attorney handling the estate after death, anyone contesting the will in the case of a will contest, or anyone…

It's free and available to anyone with a qualifying health condition or who has been exposed to COVID recently as post-exposure prophylaxis.

The recall election affects far more than the 40 million people in California. It affects the whole country, because whoever is governor is going to be picking Dianne Feinstein's replacement in the Senate. We could lose our majority.

Taking a year off would have been the better move for his recovery. New relationships and the stress of raising your first child could put him at high risk of a relapse. Recovering addicts are always cautioned to keep their lives as simple as possible for a year so they can focus on their recovery.

Very lucky, indeed.

You are so welcome! Everyone needs to see happy faces these days. They're in such short supply.

New kitty! Hi, Miranda! Your new home is a wonderfully loving place. I think you'll be very happy there.

The most important thing that happened this week is that Darwin made a friend. Her name is Holly, and she will be coming with her person to my brother’s apartment a few days a week to keep Darwin company since everyone is back working and going to school onsite.

Rooo was not banned. I'm pretty sure she can still be found in comments on The Root. Mostly, she was on sideblogs, and those are gone, so she has moved on to the two Disqus blogs (backtalkvillage and groupthink). Best Coast and OWYAC are on backtalkvillage, too.

You are always welcome at backtalkvillage.blogspot.com. Rooo is there, and it's basically just comments. Moderators post a couple times a day with conversation starters and we chat.

Hear, hear. Especially where your sister is involved.

I think it would have cheapened the moment more if Kit finally hit a high one and ended up getting out at home plate. Dottie letting go let Kit fully have her moment.

Now, now, Muck, you know damned well that no one on the interwebs has ever moved on from anything ever.

You are a genius.

Open MRIs are not available everywhere. My system has over 45 hospitals since our recent merger, and still only one open MRI. If you tell your doctor, though, you can get meds (usually Ativan or Versed) before you go in to help you relax.

I've decided to start calling them White Noise Machines instead.

Send them to me so I can put them all in my mouth.

Thank you. We don't usually have enough of the right cloud cover to get these kinds of vivid colors, so I wanted to make sure I captured the moment as soon as I saw it.