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Apr. 8th, 2025 17:09![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bill_schubertDana is doing OK. Not great. She's at the point I remember well, a week in and really tired of it hurting. She had kind of an emotional meltdown yesterday. For some reason she decided to weigh herself and spiraled out over the gain. It is all water. She can see her leg is swollen. Why anyone would want to weigh themselves six days out of major surgery is beyond me. But, there you go.
It will pass.
It is hard to be patient when the one thing you need to do is nothing. Like losing weight it is so much negative space that can not be filled with positive action. I understand the frustration but suck at not responding, not being able to help, saying the wrong thing, saying anything at all.
Such are relationships. Knowing for a fact that it will all be so much better in a week or two is hard to convey.
So I went and hung out with the dogs today. They explained it all to me. It was a lovely morning to be out on the Ranch and the dogs were in fine spirits.
I also went to lunch with my networking group. Three of us are fairly certain of a recession and one is about to agree. But they are doing fine so far. Pest control, bookkeeping and insurance all doing as well as they have ever done. They are by nature optimists and even seeing a perilous economy on the horizon they think they will be OK.
Sometimes the very small businesses can dodge things. Mine did fine during the 2008 recession. We were about recession proof. And these three will do fine. Their growth might be clipped a bit but maybe not.
Other than that all is well. The younger of my two sons is 44 today. Not ready to retire but he can see where it is now. The three I was with today are about that same age and there was some discussion of how they were going to reach retirement.
It will pass.
It is hard to be patient when the one thing you need to do is nothing. Like losing weight it is so much negative space that can not be filled with positive action. I understand the frustration but suck at not responding, not being able to help, saying the wrong thing, saying anything at all.
Such are relationships. Knowing for a fact that it will all be so much better in a week or two is hard to convey.
So I went and hung out with the dogs today. They explained it all to me. It was a lovely morning to be out on the Ranch and the dogs were in fine spirits.
I also went to lunch with my networking group. Three of us are fairly certain of a recession and one is about to agree. But they are doing fine so far. Pest control, bookkeeping and insurance all doing as well as they have ever done. They are by nature optimists and even seeing a perilous economy on the horizon they think they will be OK.
Sometimes the very small businesses can dodge things. Mine did fine during the 2008 recession. We were about recession proof. And these three will do fine. Their growth might be clipped a bit but maybe not.
Other than that all is well. The younger of my two sons is 44 today. Not ready to retire but he can see where it is now. The three I was with today are about that same age and there was some discussion of how they were going to reach retirement.