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Rachel
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Bird watcher and word botcher. Data engineer professionally; hobbyist birder, gardener, stained glass artist, and indie game developer. Crohn's patient with deep interest in healthcare policy due to my dependence on Very Expensive medications.
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This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt?

He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.
Very proud of this pretty little painting I did on some glass yesterday. It'll be one piece in a larger stained glass project I'm working on.
Here's a bright spot in my life that has otherwise been quite consumed with cancer fear recently: I have begun shopping for a dress for my wedding ✨

Yesterday I tried on a dress that made me feel like a pretty princess which is not a feeling I experience very often!!
Unhappy to report that preliminary results are showing us having reelected every single incumbent like usual
Eager to see how town elections go tomorrow.

We have a town council made up of majority old white dudes for a town that is less than 30% white. We also have historically had <15% turnout for local elections.

Would love to see a change tomorrow.
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Juncos are here ❄️
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There is one dude in particular on our town council who has had multiple scandals for egregious behavior and who nonetheless keeps getting reelected. He's been on the council for like 30 years now. I do not understand it.
Eager to see how town elections go tomorrow.

We have a town council made up of majority old white dudes for a town that is less than 30% white. We also have historically had <15% turnout for local elections.

Would love to see a change tomorrow.
Today's news was Medium
Every bit of good news seems to be closely followed by some bad news
It's wild how something can just live dormant in your brain unremembered by your conscious mind. I just watched Coraline for the first time in 1.5 decades and learned that a concept in my game is just fully stolen from it 😅
Fall color on the native saplings. The dogwood is a lovely dark red and the serviceberry is orange. First fall with the serviceberry, we just planted it in the spring!
Somebody tell these spring blooming bulbs I just planted to stop this nonsense! It is not spring!!
Really AWS another major outage? It has been 8 days since the last one.
Scrolling therapists on Psychology Today and click one. In her bio, there is a line "I thrive on watching people make better decisions." This line is immediately followed by an image of her feeding Cheez-its to a raccoon. The image is unacknowledged in any of the text.
Lil man has been glued to my lap ever since it started to get cooler.
Every bit of good news seems to be closely followed by some bad news
Three distinct and unrelated issues with third party services this week have created fires for me / my team. I am so tired.
There'll be a few more tests and treatments in the near-term, but soon we will be settling into the "wait and see" steady state, and we're just gonna have to learn to live that way for a bit.
We are NOT stoked about five years of limbo but it is what it is. We at least feel a little better now than we did two weeks ago.
This week we got some test results and so far there are no signs that it spread beyond his thyroid, which means the surgery may have removed it all. There is no way to know for sure now, but if there are no changes in his scans for 5+ years he'll be considered cured
Two weeks ago we got the very shitty news that, unlike 95% of thyroid cancers which are pretty slow moving and have good targeted treatment options, the specific type Matt has is more aggressive and less responsive to treatment
Okay so this week's appointments were pretty good.
This day has aged me 5 years. I beg of the Cloud gods for mercy tomorrow
Then the actual oncology appointment, where we are told that Matt's scans look good for now but also the best case scenario is we will be spending the next 5-10 years not knowing whether he has cancer or not

Then home for more firefighting until 7
While in the waiting room there was a big loudspeaker announcement about a "code red" which in hospitals apparently usually means a fire?

We did not have to evacuate or anything and there was a resolution message some 15 minutes later but just....what