The Cracked Mug v 2.0

[erikakaiser]

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anyways, I can't wait to move in two weeks

[erikakaiser]

I told the barista "skim milk if you have it" and they said "thankfully we do but there's a LOT of milk missing" in an accusatory voice at their colleague

What drama did I miss,

[erikakaiser]

Today I took in the case of a man with no hands and soft bones

[Fetian]

Was that his condition before he died?

[erikakaiser]

Correct! His baseline was no hands, soft bones

(Just a strange combination of med hx -- long-term steroid abuse leading to severe osteopenia + like 20 back surgeries and, unrelatedly, a cigarette lighter blew up in his hands last month. He was also HIV+, because why not. When I got all the information together, which required talking to police, his brother, and his assisted living facility, I went "uh. what" out loud)

[erikakaiser]

His brother was like "oh and he's HIV+" when I said he was going to be an autopsy case, as if that might change my mind, and I was like my guy that is 1000% the least of my worries did you miss the NO HANDS SOFT BONES,

[erikakaiser]

(as a sidebar, we are thankfully in a time when HIV is not a death sentence, and sometimes I don't even release young people who have it because it's not considered significant medical history when medicated!

also like. we wear PPE, I have no plants to drink cadaver blood with a straw and unless you have a prion disease we're really not worried about it

if you DO have a prion disease, FUCK THAT)

[erikakaiser]

I have no plants????

plans*** but I guess, yeah, I also do not own Audrey II

[erikakaiser]

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[erikakaiser]

Trying to get home to where I live (near Montrose Beach, a popular party beach in Chicago) on a very sunny Memorial Day made me have a rage aneurysm