...and *this* is why Australia is too goddamn far from Kansas City.

I'm here. If you're ever really missing me, you can email me or send me a PM here. I get email notifications. :)

We have good reason to worry about you...

Not to mention the drop bears, and the trees that follow you home and bugger you in your sleep...

Yeah man - they're the worst

Hey, sorry to have been quiet. Things have been exhausting and somehow I crash every night without checking in. I had to move my father back to Ontario, and his health promptly headed straight downhill. My practice has pretty much failed, and ...

Yeah, that.

Business has been too slow and I owe the bank too much. I got a contract with a client for 4-5 days/week onsite, which limits my practice to independent medical exams and pilot exams one day/week. The contract will help with the bank loan but I don't start getting paid until October.

I had a worrying mammo and some bone issues but am back on track again. The mammo turned out to be a false alarm after some additional imaging and tests, and the bone stuff was a pathological fracture due to cancer meds - but not the metastatic kind of pathological fracture, so I'm happy to just have bone pain that isn't cancer! Somehow the fatigue is still there, so with long days (long commute to work) I fall into bed and still never seem to get enough sleep.

The lawsuit is slowly wending its way through the bowels of the EEOC; that has to finish before anything else can happen. I suspect nothing really WILL happen in the end.

I need to check out the threads and catch up, but wanted to say hi first. :o

I'm glad you're still fighting. Even if it's a strategic retreat at this point, you're undefeated. I'm curious if you've been getting any moral support from family, if not cheerleaders at least not critics.

Lots of moral support from immediate family, glad to say. Not from my siblings regarding my father, but that's another story.

Half a loaf, I guess. Rooting for anyway. :cheerldr:

Thanks for checking in Ortho. We've missed you.

Hey, grav! Hope all is good with you.

And, Bruce ... thanks.

What Grav said.

Hi there. Glad to see you back.

Does anyone have any info on Bruce's absence this last week?

We don't necessarily need details, just want to know if things are ok.

He sends out a daily collection of cartoons and funny shit for years. This morning he announced, it's over.

I wrote to ask him if anything was up.

His short reply was cryptic.

:worried sick: