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Happiness Tuesday

Well, future happiness, I’m in the process of breaking out of the hospital. Some happiness–a wonderful woman who works here found me some pants.

What made you happy this week?

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  1. What?! I definitely missed something here. Have to check your last post.

    Anyway, don’t break out of the hospital until they’ve done their best for you.

    Besides, I think you’re more talented at breaking out of jail than breaking out of the hospital — but don’t take that as a challenge!

    1. If you’re on Facebook, she’s been posting all about it. She apparently had some sort of incident a couple of days ago, and got taken to the ER, where they cut her dress off her and stole her underwear (she eventually got those back). She’s feeling fine, but some of her tests apparently disagreed, and she was persuaded to stay and get a full check-up and assessment, now that she has health coverage and treatments have advanced.

      Anyway, that’s the short version. She’s fine, they’re checking things out to make sure she stays that way, and someone is taking care of Johnny, so nothing but good times ahead.

      4. I very much appreciate the update. Although I am still wondering why they had to cut her clothes off her! Anyway, thank you. Sending speedy recovery vibes.

        1. She had a major asthma attack, and apparently pneumonia, and ended up with tubes in both arms and a giant mask over her face as she struggled to breathe. So they have to cut the dress off. (I asked the same thing, which is the only reason why I know.)

  5. Glad you got some pants for your escape but sorry for the hospital part! Take care of yourself!!

  6. Yikes!

    Happy for the great escape. Happy that my tatsoi has sprouted on the deck garden (altho’ I need to cover it tonight and tomorrow when the temperatures go down into the twenties — it’s hardy but not that hardy). Happy that access to telehealth that was supposed to end on March 31st got pushed back to the end of September, so my long-scheduled routine but necessary appointment with my endocrinologist tomorrow can happen (but not so happy that it’s even an issue).

  7. Good call. Breaking out without pants will bring you back.

    Let people pamper you (or pamper yourself) at the hospital or at home.

    I hope the medical incident is positively resolved or at least in the way to be.

  8. I actually got to finish paperwork for a work project, for a change. I saw some shows for free. I saw an improvised show that was fun. My work on the papillon shawl is going well.

  10. I hope you are feeling better. And thank goodness for the kind person who found you some pants to wear!

  11. Glad to hear you are okay — I was starting to worry. Sorry about the ER part; I hope you are on the road to recovery, especially now that you have pants. Pneumonia is nothing to mess with.

  12. And I told myself not to worry. Hope you feel 100% soon.

    I’m still loving the bizarre sunshine. Sitting in the garden reading in between bouts of gardening: I’m allowing myself just to enjoy life. This spring is amazing, especially the blossom. (Instagram has indigestion, but I hope this is a link to a few of the flowers I’m enjoying: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIJMRZNs7_x/)

    Today I took the big brown bin that’s been living by my front gate to the tip for recycling, since the council’s stopped collecting the green waste it was for. (I rarely used it, since I have three compost bins.) I’ve replaced it with a large tub which I’m going to plant up tomorrow: it should be much more welcoming.

    Had a phone call from my Serbian penfriend, and am hopeful we’ll stay in closer touch. Also long chats with several other friends.

    2. As it slowly loaded, the polyanthus looked just like a cross-stitch pattern. I haven’t done any cross-stitch in years….

  13. Whoa! Jenny, get well soon, and I hope it was nothing long-term serious.

    Oddly enough, a friend of mine, younger than Jenny and me, also spent some days in the hospital for unspecified reasons. So I’m happy that he’s safely home and that you soon will be.

  14. I said earlier that almost as soon as I learned that a knit hat is called a “beanie” in the Pacific Northwest and possibly elsewhere,  I found it in that meaning in a novel.   I just saw it again in a different novel, to my amazement one set in Chicago and from the viewpoint of a Chicago native.  I spent almost my first 22 years in the Chicago area, but I’ve only been back for short visits and never in winter.  Things change, and some quirks now regarded as quintessentially Chicagoan did not exist in my day.  Had that meaning of “beanie” taken hold there?   Happily for my sense of continuity, probably not—the book was Unromance and author Erin Connor, per her author bio, lives in the Pacific Northwest.  So she probably just got the Chicago terminology wrong.  Later:  In the novel she even has TMZ using the term, as if it were nationally understood.

  18. And here I thought it was a technical issue not something as serious as a hospital visit. Your critters must miss you as much as we did. Take care and get well soon.

  19. I hope you are fixed up before you break out, going AMA from the hospital is almost never a good idea. I will admit I was getting just a little bit worried about you.

    Yay for pants!

  21. I’m glad you’re ready to break out.This is timely since I got home from the doctor with an antibiotic and two different decongestants. I have discovered I am too tired to read! Words? In a row?

    1. My happiness is 40 years of marriage this week to report on Happiness Tuesday from Saturday Sanity. Escape is good.

  22. I hope you are well and that they will release you home soon! And that you’ve got help for you and the doggo.

  24. Oh gosh, I was worried – please take care of yourself!!

    Myself, I’m happy I listened to you all, especially the Quebecois among you and brought my winter coat with me. While kiddo #2 talks of 18 C in BC, I wore 4 layers and was just about warm enough while kiddo #2 wore two knit hats (me: hoodie and coat hoodie) on our visiting tour around old Quebec City. Great tour guide, impressive city, a strange mix of what reminds me of British, Norman and French architecture. Great experiences with the food so far, too.
    Happy about our stay in Montreal, too. Kiddo #1 fell in love with thd city, now plans to learn French (the locals are so wonderfully relaxed comoared to our compatriots) and to save up for another trip. He also got why I fell in love with hockey – we had a great time at the Bell Center! Thd Habs finally figured out in the third period how to get behind the strong Flyers defense and their fine goalie. We had great seats and were surprised by the friendly atmosphere. At home, hhere’s more aggressiveness in the air. I’d have loved to get a jersey but I’ve got to be sensible: no spare room in my suitcase, I can’t break the bank on the first leg of the journey, too difficult a choice between Suzuki, Monty or Hutson. A toque has to suffice…

    1. So glad you are having a wonderful time in Canada. It has been raining, cold then turned sunny and windy today in Vancouver area. Still layer up. Hope you get wonderful sunny weather when you arrive. Canada is beautiful but then I am biased.

    2. It was only one day with 18C in Vancouver so far. The rest of the days are about 10C and rainy. Still better than in Quebec and Ontario, if you ask me. But then, love Vancouver.

      1. Here in Québec City, we woke up to fresh snow and temperatures around 0 Celsius, but with the wind it felt like (at least) minus 10. The city is beautiful anyway. And the locals are so nice.

  26. Oh, no Jenny. Hope you are okay! Take care of yourself. Glad you are out of hospital.

  28. Get well. I hope someone is telling you ‘poor baby’ and taking care of you. Rest up. Read fiction, not news.

  29. I’m glad you’re out of hospital but sorry to hear you’ve been ill. Hope you feel better soon.

    I found crocus in my garden over the weekend. First flowers of the season. Now buried under 3 inches of snow! Temps are going up on the weekend so hopefully it will disappear.

  30. Happy to have you doing better! And happy you have wonderful nurses taking care of you.

  31. Dear Jenny, please take care as you leave the hospital. Don’t try to do too much beyond following the discharge orders. You are greatly loved and needed in this world. Maybe you and Bob could slow the writing pace a bit?
    I’m happy that a longtime friend is coming for Easter, even though it means cleaning.

  32. I am happy that I am finally out of the hospital also! Glad you made your escape.,

  33. Get well soon Jenny. Don’t worry about anything else – just focus on getting your health back.

    Happy for me is the cherry tree walk in the next door apartment complex in full blossom. Literally a hundred yards from my front door is a walkway between some houses and apartment blocks, it is edged by a copper beech hedge and cherry trees. It is quite long and leads (up some steps) to the last remaining bit of the original botanic gardens (local park – really small). The cherry trees come out once a year and is absolutely gorgeous. I walk under them and there is a humming noise (like when you are near an electric substation) and look up and see hundreds of bees having a very nice frat party drunk on the nectar. Even when the blossom is on the wane (or it is really windy) and the petals are falling it is lovely – like getting confetti thrown on you. There are quicker ways to the main road but none prettier. And I live in the city centre!

    There is love (someone bringing you panties) and beauty in this world – we need to focus on that.

    Sending hugs

    1. Christine, Americans call “pants” what people in the UK call “trousers”. In the UK, pants are panties. I’m sure she needed trousers, not panties, which would hardly be acceptable covering on the street. Reading UK fiction has been an education for me.!

      1. If they cut off her clothes in the ER, I’m sure Jenny needed both. And underpants are called knickers in the U.K.

  34. Well, I thought something was wrong when there was no post on Sunday. I emailed Bob, and he sensibly stayed out of your business, and did not email back. I’m so glad you are able to go home, and I hope it’s not serious. Having you recovering is my happy. You are the brightness in a darkening world, here, for me, and I suspect, many of us. Take care of yourself.

  36. Yay for breaking out of the hospital! Nurses are the best! (With a few Rachet exceptions)
    Please rest and take some time for yourself.

    I kind of did have visions of Jack Nicholson’s butt hanging out of his hospital gown when I read pantsless in the hospital.

    Happy I kept my Pansies indoors this week. Between frost and rain they wouldn’t have made it. Instead they are on my breakfast nook table wishing me good morning.

  37. I am happy that you are getting the care you need and are still here with us. Everything is pretty much going to Hell in a handbasket.

  38. Yikes! I hope you found some pants and got out of hospital and that whatever put you in there is on the mend. Take care of yourself.

  40. Hope you’ve made your great escape and are home enjoying snuggles with your pup!

    We had a beautiful trip to Pinnacles NP. The weather was perfect and all the hikes we did were gorgeous. I should book a return trip for the fall soon… In the meantime, I have campfire smoke so deeply saturated in my skin, hair, clothes, and gear, that I will have reminders of the good times coming to me at odd moments for another several days, I would guess!

    I finally had the “STAT” CT scan that was ordered five weeks ago last week and it turns out I have quite a large gallstone? I can’t see my doctor to discuss the results till late next week, which I was a little worried about, but he says he’s not overly concerned, so I will also not be overly concerned…

  41. I was following the hospital saga on Facebook. Glad you’re coming home soon and Johnny is well taken care of!

    Happiness for me this week was getting to think about a new story…at least until the edits come back on the one I submitted last week.

  42. If you are not now well, please get well.
    If you are well, please stay well
    At your remote remove, you are a part of my life.

    1. I just spent an hour on facebook. Pneumonia? Had it. 3 times. Now I’m innoculated. Please get the vaccine. Backless gown? Should be reserved for the ballroom. I giggle in your general direction.

      Hugs and good vibes.

  43. I’m happy for you that you’re heading home!

    I too had an ER visit while on vacation in Arizona. Nice paramedics. Happy to learn it wasn’t a heart attack but it did turn into a flu. Now I am back in the hospital for a quick (?) procedure that I will be happy to have (hopefully) assuming all goes well. I will also be happy to eat once it’s over!

    May everyone take care!

    3. I will not watch the trailer until the series comes out. It will make me Too Hungry.

  47. Hope you’re comfortably home, feeling better, and snuggling with the littles. Take good care of yourself!

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Jennifer Crusie is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author and co-author of twenty-three novels, one book of literary criticism, miscellaneous articles, essays, novellas, and short stories, and the editor of three essay anthologies. She lives in a cottage in Pennsylvania, where she often stares at the ceiling and counts her blessings.

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