Nerdnote #147: on grief and MRI results
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 9:15pm

It's my baby's birthday today. She's one.

Her Auntie Nora is visiting from Tennessee this weeek, and they are currently watching ...Ru Paul's Drag Race? with her other mom in the livingroom. I am sitting alone in the kitchen with the remains of Larb Thai dinner and my thoughts on grief and injury.

I handed her off a few minutes ago when she spotted the black cat image on Dr Kelsey's CleanPro cat kibble bag tucked up in the top shelf of our pantry and got all excited, thinking it was our black cat Catapult, who passed away three weeks and two days ago.

As of October 20, 2022 I have received the Pfizer bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine (in addition to 3 Pfizer shots on March 1 & 23, 2021; January 10, 2022). I am still rapid-PCR testing weekly.

Starting September, office visits will be $120, and housecalls will be $30 per 15 minute commute (minimum $150).

Same-day appointments are subject to a $50 fee (e.g., office visit $170, housecalls minimum $200). This fee may be waived at my discretion (e.g., for labor support).

I rolled my right ankle Monday morning while hiking the Lower Jordan Fire Trail in the Berkeley hills in the misty not quite rain. I was able to limp back to the car, leaning on my partner…