The doorbell rang unexpectedly this morning, heralding a vase of flowers with my name on them, a retirement and thank you give from my colleagues at acmqueue. We put the flowers on the back porch to protect them from Kaja while we went to Cambridge for a picnic with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
adrian_turtle. The note says "Thank you very much for your excellent work on queue all these years. Enjoy your retirement! All the best from the queue staff."
Last weekcattitude was disappointed because it looked like we might have missed the last good day for a picnic until April, and I decided to keep an eye on the forecast. By Monday that looked promising enough that I asked Adrian if she'd like to join us for a picnic Wednesday [today) if the weather was as nice as predicted, and she said yes.
We met on the Cambridge Common at about a quarter to one this afternoon, sitting on a pleasant bit of lawn, in the sunshine. We had lox and bagels, salad, chocolate chip oatmeal cookies (baked by Adrian), some salad, and iced tea. Adrian said they weren't her best cookies, before we tried them; after eating one I said they might not be her best cookies, but they were definitely good cookies, and ate a few more.
That was a very pleasant, low-key hour and a half. Adrian then went home, and catittude atnd I went to the Arlington Farmers Market, which in retrospect may have been overdoing things slightly. Bu while I have to get up early tomorrow for a medical appointment, for my semi-annual infusion of Ocrevus (an MS medication), once I get there my job will be to sit in a chair for a few hours, while they give me the drug (after a steroid, an anti-histamine, and a couple of other things to reduce the risk of side effects).
Yes, I'm getting a drug where they take those precautions for every patient--but I have now had this a few times, without difficulty, and I'll be in the Hematology and Oncology clinic at Mt. Auburn Hospital, so help if needed will be nearby. (In the years since I got this diagnosis, I have taken/been given the anti-MS medication in doctor's offices, at home, at a specialized infusion center, and at two different hospitals' oncology clinics. I like this better than either my previous neurologist's clinic out in the land of long commutes, or the Medical Oncology department of Evergreen Hospital, though all three were fine in medical terms.
adrian_turtle. The note says "Thank you very much for your excellent work on queue all these years. Enjoy your retirement! All the best from the queue staff."Last week
cattitude was disappointed because it looked like we might have missed the last good day for a picnic until April, and I decided to keep an eye on the forecast. By Monday that looked promising enough that I asked Adrian if she'd like to join us for a picnic Wednesday [today) if the weather was as nice as predicted, and she said yes.We met on the Cambridge Common at about a quarter to one this afternoon, sitting on a pleasant bit of lawn, in the sunshine. We had lox and bagels, salad, chocolate chip oatmeal cookies (baked by Adrian), some salad, and iced tea. Adrian said they weren't her best cookies, before we tried them; after eating one I said they might not be her best cookies, but they were definitely good cookies, and ate a few more.
That was a very pleasant, low-key hour and a half. Adrian then went home, and catittude atnd I went to the Arlington Farmers Market, which in retrospect may have been overdoing things slightly. Bu while I have to get up early tomorrow for a medical appointment, for my semi-annual infusion of Ocrevus (an MS medication), once I get there my job will be to sit in a chair for a few hours, while they give me the drug (after a steroid, an anti-histamine, and a couple of other things to reduce the risk of side effects).
Yes, I'm getting a drug where they take those precautions for every patient--but I have now had this a few times, without difficulty, and I'll be in the Hematology and Oncology clinic at Mt. Auburn Hospital, so help if needed will be nearby. (In the years since I got this diagnosis, I have taken/been given the anti-MS medication in doctor's offices, at home, at a specialized infusion center, and at two different hospitals' oncology clinics. I like this better than either my previous neurologist's clinic out in the land of long commutes, or the Medical Oncology department of Evergreen Hospital, though all three were fine in medical terms.
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