I honestly can't say if the food I got after they popped out my kidney was pretty good or if I was just so ravenous at that point that my standards were low.
My previous stay in a different hospital however, the food was so devoid of flavor that it was depressing.
That's pretty much where I was on it. I wasn't on a dietary restriction when I was in the hospital in June, but I was in October, which didn't help matters.
Got out of the hospital the afternoon of the 15th, pulled two 12-hour shifts at work the next two days, and the rest of that week wasn't much better - it was the culmination of a work project to upgrade our electronic faxing that's been two years in the works, where I'm lead engineer and the subject matter expert. The past month has been cleanup of post-migration issues, all the stuff from my primary job (supporting our Epic server infrastructure), and then all the extra meetings to try to figure out the support responsibilities for our electronic faxing, now that it's expanded out well beyond where it was before.
And the backlog of departments and clinics wanting to be onboarded with electronic faxing...which goes back into the category of responsibilities. There's stuff that only I'm able to do right now, because there debate all the way up to the director/VP level about who should actually be responsible for it (though everyone agrees that the only reason it's with my team was that I supported it before becoming an ECSA). It's been a mess.
With that said...we're coming up to the holidays, and I also took an extra week off, so I'm hoping to be able to get caught up on writing again. I've got bits and pieces of pretty much all my stories in the works right now (from "Starship Diana" to "Beer Keg" to "Syberia") - it's just a matter of getting away from meditative games that allow me to relax from work stress, like Solitaire or Rule the Waves 3.
