tw: talk about surgery (little detailed)

[catharsis_logs]

I'm alive! I made it through surgery and now make mean jokes to people I kinda know that I've been absent for a while because I got stabbed five times, which is true(kinda, they're incisions that people gently pushed tools through) but not nearly as violent an association as they're probably making lmao.

I said this to the guy (manager) at gamestop that I talk to all the time when I go in to pick up my (many) games and he just kinda looked me in the eye, really deadpan, and I said, "it's okay! It was just surgery!" and he looks at me some more and I'm like "it was repair for a hiatal hernia! And I haven't used acid reflux medication since!" and that kinda broke the tense-ish atmosphere and he laughed and said that that's awesome LMAO

We vented for a bit about shitty customers and anti-vaxxer/maskers and he said that he's glad that retail in my state is going back under a mask-required (which went into effect this Mon) mandate and I'M relieved too, because I noticed that the door didn't have the mask note on it anymore and went in without a mask on and noticed that everyone else didn't have a mask on, including the employee and so kept my mask off but also kept 6 feet away from everyone else in the store

Then I talked to the manager J and said that I felt akward putting a mask on when it isn't "required" because I feel like I'm putting a target on my face for assholes and asked him if the store was making him not wear a mask and he burst out that he felt the same way I did because he *could* wear a mask he just didn't want to attract the attention of that shitty kind of customer either!

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[enemyofperfect]

(Please ignore this comment if you're too caught up in other things to deal with it! I just thought that since I've signed into Dreamwidth for the first time in forever, I might as well try to catch up a little bit...)

I'm glad you got through your surgery and that it helped with your reflux!

And yes, it's so stressful when people don't want to do what they can to protect themselves and others from covid. I always wear my mask, even when it's not required, but I also wonder sometimes if people are looking at me strangely. I remember a month or two ago, I saw someone wearing a mask that said "I'm vaccinated", and I felt so grateful that -- even socially awkward as I am -- I had to compliment her on it. It just meant so much to see someone else being careful!

[catharsis_logs]

Yeah! The surgery was pretty amazing actually. I snuck my surgery in riiiiight before my state got overwhelmed with cases again which meant that a. I didn't have to share a room after surgery and b. my dad could visit. Which is... kind of an unfortunate thing to feel lucky for? Since if some of the people in the u.s. weren't criminally misguided/undereducated/xenophobic the pandemic might have had a chance of being over by now, instead of mutated and still killing thousands of people all over the world. The recovery from surgery was really fast too. Fastest recovery I think I've had since eye surgery. I got real sick of dietary restrictions and switched over to slightly-more-solid foods than my surgeon advised but to no ill affect and I'm now back to wolfing down food as usual with the added benefit of no antacids every night, or worrying about choking on stomach acid in my sleep!

That is an awesome mask! I've basically also made the decision to keep wearing my mask even when not required because I don't want to get/give it and me and definitely my dad would probably not do well if we had a breakthrough case. In fact both me and my dad can apply for booster shots which I think we might apply for as soon as possible... I've also thought about looking into taser laws in my state/county because I am growing increasingly paranoid hahahahahahhhhhhh.... :/

[enemyofperfect]

I'm so glad your surgery went well! Both in the sense of recovering well, and of how well it's resolved the issues you were having. And I'm glad you were able to get that done without the pandemic adding its own terribleness!

Continued mask wearing solidarity! And it makes a lot of sense that you and your dad would want to be as protected as you can get, so I wish you luck getting your booster shots. <3