Thanks, Ben. It's exhausting for everyone involved, and we've earned a rest. My partner is still convalescing, though; they can barely handle the stairs to and from the flat without stopping and they struggle with their muscle weakness. But they're home, and that's what matters.You might also appreciate the whimsy in my partner deciding to name their stoma hole Hubert. This because Hubert is a good name for something small and roundish. There may be Huberts who are tall and rakishly debonair, but the default Hubert is (to my partner's unique mind) a short, comfortably proportioned man in a grey suit and reading glasses with lenses like the portholes on the Titanic.
You know things have come to a pretty pass when of a given couple it's me who's the normal one. =]
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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory
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