• My body has started getting more random lumps, so I finally went into the doctor a third time and asked for that u/s she said I could get for the lump in my leg that is probably a hematoma or a lipoma but could instead be a highly unlikely cancer.  It will take a month and a half to get said u/s.  DH (who is not a radiologist nor a medical doctor) did a couple of u/s before this most recent visit (he has an u/s from his previous job) and it doesn't appear to be growing, but the addition of more lumps (one on the top of my leg, one on my right arm) is concerning.
  • DC2 attended a birthday party.  It's 4 kids (hir best friend group from before the grade-skip who zie regularly minecrafts with) and 100% outside.  The birthday kid's family has had covid twice already so probably has had delta and omicron (from daycare-- the kid's two younger siblings are too young to be vaccinated) and one of the other kids has had it at least once (also has a younger sibling at daycare) and they're all vaccinated.  I think DC2 will probably be the only masked kid, but it's outside so I'm sure it's fine.  (Yes, yes, you probably don't need to mask outside, but also I know of a super-spreader event back with alpha where the kids didn't put their masks back on to go inside to use the restroom.)  Last year's birthday party was supposed to be at the zoo (we said no because DC2 wasn't vaccinated yet and yelp was full of pictures of anti-maskers at the zoo) but got cancelled either because of a snowstorm or because of delta, I can't remember, and they ended up playing minecraft again.
  • Update:  DC2 was the only kid who masked and the party did move inside for part of it.  DC2 kept hir mask on (and was the only person masked in the indoor pictures).
  • FIL came and visited on the way to a hunt.  I took a test that morning (negative) and we asked him to take a test when he got in (also negative).  He spent the night and stayed another day and night before heading back out.
  • I had a lipoma on my back once in my 20s but it wasn't as deep as these lumps are and was obviously a lipoma.  It was surgically removed at a dermatology office at the university.
  • I've gotten some IRL people hooked on behealthyusa.net.  One of my friends was bemoaning how they'd finally put their daughter back in daycare only to have the vaccine timeline for 0-5 get moved again.  I gave her a set of 5 disposable kids masks of different kinds because I had extras (because I have a problem or because DC2 changes hir mind, you decide) and hir daughter fell in love with the POSH small mask.  They bought 100!  (For $160, or $1.60/mask which is a really good deal. Especially if they get all the designs listed, some of which are out of stock otherwise.)  Then one of my graduate RAs was bemoaning how he can't find disposable masks that fit his larger head, only cloth, and I was like, have you tried extra large BOTN?  And he was like, oh hey, this is where people have been getting those masks with the cool designs and my wife the K-12 teacher is totally going to order a ton of them.  (Also I gave him a Honeywell and a 3M Aura, but those are N95 which aren't as convenient as KF94.)
  • The schools continue to have exposures even though official numbers have dropped (they're still not low numbers!)  But I'm hopeful that things will get better.  Of course every time I get hopeful there's a new variant, so maybe I should stay pessimistic!
  • I will continue to enjoy the fact that I have a Posh mask that matches my houndstooth pants and another Posh mask that exactly matches one of my dresses.  And another that matches one of my skirts!
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