TL;DW
• Gin is back to being an exhausted-looking puffy boozebag who needs a comb and a haircut.
Puffy, bloated, haggard Gin.
• It's been a long ordeal; she's in a skilled nursing rehab. One setback after another. Going to spend Christmas in hospital but at least Gin will be with her.
• Gin and Jen mounted fairylights to the wall. Administrative staff told Gin and Jen to turn them off because they're a fire hazard. They unplugged them but are going to turn them on Christmas Eve because fire regulations are for the little people.
Gin begins to explain how LED lights "burn a lil' cooler" and you just know that he went through the whole process of explaining this to the administrator when she told them "no." Also notable: Jen indicates that they will insert a photo of the fairy lights "here" and there is no edit splicing them in. Boozy "The Cat's Away" Gin isn't quite the editor he is when he's less freely boozy and under Jen's thumb.
• Jen was getting PT and OT, then came down with covid. Noticed a metallic taste in her mouth. Brushed her teeth. Next day chest felt heavy and heavier still the next day. Was put in isolation for ten days. Two days after she went into isolation Gin came down with symptoms. Was tested and was found to also be positive for covid. They don't know which one gave it to the other.
• Jen was concerned because her obesity and beetus put her at risk of dying. From covid, that is. Not from the obesity and beetus. She wouldn't worry about that, silly. Doctor gave her "monocaulo...no...mono...mono-something antibiotic...antibodies."
• Doctor told her that it could turn serious very quickly. Gin is immediately indignant, saying that the news has been blowing that up for over a year and there's no need to spread fear to your patients.
• Among the other common symptoms of covid, it caused her thinning hair to fall out. With all the patches of hair and bald spots she decided to cut it off. Gin indicates the current length of her hair by gesturing to how far it hovers off the hump.
About yay long as the buffalo hump lies.
•Developed lumps in stomach. Getting x-rays and other tests. Gin: "That's been holding her back from doing more PT because of pain." They ask for prayers. No mention of consulting with Oriental wise men to dx the issue.
•Verbatim: "She would be doing
excellent otherwise" but for covid and the stomach lump pain. But for that, this "
excellent" specimen of physical vigor would already be on her way home to Big Wheelie.
•Has lost enough weight that she can get an MRI and CAT scan safely.
• Gin has been there as much as he can. One night he couldn't get an uber home and had to sleep on the floor the whole night. Gin: "I was miserable." I'll bet. He probably didn't bring an emergency flask in the event that he couldn't get to the booze at home. Gin had to sleep partially under the bed; both acknowledge they were paranoid the bed would break and crush him to death. Funny that she's not concerned about the bed breaking because of the massive weight she's carrying on her body that
is crushing her to death.
•She's realized that YT has been sucking the peace and joy out of her life. She was being as nasty and negative to others as others were to her. She's not sure when she's coming back to videos. When she does she thinks she might swing a weekly upload but that's it.
• Her original discharge dates were December 31st and then January 6th and now that's all cancelled. Jen has had no PT for a month so now she's slid back to where she was and it's going to be a while before she builds herself back up. Claims she can "sit up and stand up and all that."
• Everyone is nice and, Gin tells us, everyone like Jennifer because she's very easy going and does not ring her button. Gin encourages her to "step up" a little more, but Jen is a sweetheart.
Fat Jen shows us her un-rung button.
• Gin jokes that he got together with a band and is going on tour. They laugh. Gin mutters that's been his dream his whole life.
• Jen has been facetiming with the cats but they largely ignore her. Gin insists he's been spending a lot of time with them, doting on and brushing them. Unlike his hair, which he's neglecting. But the cats? Totally doting on them.
• Not very Christmasy. It's not cold and hasn't snowed. The highlight of her time there is changing rooms.
• Didn't get around to doing the Q&A video because she was busy moving to rehab and working hard at her PT and all that.
• She's lying on her side because there are two or three painful lumps on "what on obese people is called 'the apron area.'" Gin: "The apron? That's cute."
• They've been playing a pool app. When they play and she wins he has to hand over all his coins; when she wins she wheedles until he consents to let her keep her coins. Not to stretch but it kind of reminds me of how Gin isn't allowed to drink without Jen having a fit and threatening to kick him out but Jen is allowed to binge and must be accorded infinite patience and tolerance.
• Merry Christmas and thanks for all the support, even the haydurs.
