Unrelated to the strip – in case anyone was actually missing me and my posts, I have spent the last 2 months on and off with husband in the hospital and have not had a chance to come online.
Why was he there? Well, if one has a hernia – please do not wait 30 years before having it dealt with – even as your wife pushes to get it done. (Per his doctor “Whoever made you come to the hospital saved your life.”) They were very nice and I spent most nights sitting next to his bed – they did not kick me out – to keep him company. Survived on peanut butter sandwiches I made and brought en mass when I did go home to check mail, etc., packages of cheese crackers, and when I ran out of above – 2 pack packages of Pop Tarts in the machine there.
He was rather shaky when he came home. We were going out on an errand and he fell going out the backdoor/down its steps and went back into the hospital. All is okay from same. Still has some other problems related to all of this that we are still dealing with. He is afraid to go for now and we are staying in the house – once his sister came and once his niece so I could go out and run errands. We are having the outdoor steps replaced – will start work next Monday – and then he will be comfortable (hopefully) to go out again.
So have not had a chance to come online. Hopefully I am back now.
Thank you all! His niece is coming again tomorrow so I can go out and run errands – he is afraid to stay home alone even for a few minutes – afraid he will fall and not be able to get up. Work is finished on the side steps – looks great, but we have to wait for the cement to set – never knew it took weeks for same to happen.
One errand this time is going to our doctor for paperwork so he can get a handicap parking sticker as he is using a walker and still unsure of his balance. At least he has reached the point where he is not falling over on me due to lack of balance. (He has fallen over on me a total of 6 times so far – half of them while using his walker.)
He is making progress. Tomorrow I am going out (as I think I posted elsewhere) and his niece is coming again to “uncle sit” for me so I can run errands – mail bill payments, grocery shop, go to the doctor for paperwork for him to get a handicap parking pass, and such.
I can’t wait until the outside steps railing is ready to be used and he can come out with me and wait in the car for me so we don’t have to bother his niece nor I rush to get all done in one day every couple of weeks.
The cute little smile in the foreground of that Palurdeando reminded me of the “Pumpkinmojis” in Sunday’s Foxtrot.
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Odd that the pumpkin is glowing while the candle is not lit.
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10:08 am: Glad to see we’re back up. I was getting “Internal Server Error” messages earlier.
That first one is from the Tuesday Six Chix artist. I often find her either confusing or a downer.
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zbicyclist: There are going to be a lot of sites down today–high-severity PHP patch being released.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/php-maintainers-tell-web-devs-to-prepare-themselves-for-critical-security-patches/
(That page was down, too, a half hour ago!)
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Unrelated to the strip – in case anyone was actually missing me and my posts, I have spent the last 2 months on and off with husband in the hospital and have not had a chance to come online.
Why was he there? Well, if one has a hernia – please do not wait 30 years before having it dealt with – even as your wife pushes to get it done. (Per his doctor “Whoever made you come to the hospital saved your life.”) They were very nice and I spent most nights sitting next to his bed – they did not kick me out – to keep him company. Survived on peanut butter sandwiches I made and brought en mass when I did go home to check mail, etc., packages of cheese crackers, and when I ran out of above – 2 pack packages of Pop Tarts in the machine there.
He was rather shaky when he came home. We were going out on an errand and he fell going out the backdoor/down its steps and went back into the hospital. All is okay from same. Still has some other problems related to all of this that we are still dealing with. He is afraid to go for now and we are staying in the house – once his sister came and once his niece so I could go out and run errands. We are having the outdoor steps replaced – will start work next Monday – and then he will be comfortable (hopefully) to go out again.
So have not had a chance to come online. Hopefully I am back now.
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Hey Meryl. I saw you post on GoComics a while back which reminded me that I hadn’t seen you here some time. Sorry to hear about Robert.
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Yes, nice to see you back, Meryl! And sorry about your husband’s condition.
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Sorry to hear about your husband’s issues, Meryl.
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Thank you all! His niece is coming again tomorrow so I can go out and run errands – he is afraid to stay home alone even for a few minutes – afraid he will fall and not be able to get up. Work is finished on the side steps – looks great, but we have to wait for the cement to set – never knew it took weeks for same to happen.
One errand this time is going to our doctor for paperwork so he can get a handicap parking sticker as he is using a walker and still unsure of his balance. At least he has reached the point where he is not falling over on me due to lack of balance. (He has fallen over on me a total of 6 times so far – half of them while using his walker.)
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Thank you all!
He is making progress. Tomorrow I am going out (as I think I posted elsewhere) and his niece is coming again to “uncle sit” for me so I can run errands – mail bill payments, grocery shop, go to the doctor for paperwork for him to get a handicap parking pass, and such.
I can’t wait until the outside steps railing is ready to be used and he can come out with me and wait in the car for me so we don’t have to bother his niece nor I rush to get all done in one day every couple of weeks.
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