Keep Calm - Just Recovering.

Blogmeister has been down, but not out for the count.

Last Monday I had some oral surgery that I knew was going to result in my being down approximately 1/3rd of the teeth in the left side of my mouth. Thankfully I did not have dry socket – salt water rinses 3 times a day and careful eating & drinking helped prevent that.

It's just that if you are hypo-glycemic a liquid diet does not bode well and requires some changes that I forgot to ask about. So Thursday night my blood sugar levels were a mess and Friday I required bed rest and other medical assistance.

1. Thankfully I have insurance. One of the benefits of my employment is dental & health insurance that helped cover the costs. Not entirely, but they are much less than out of pocket.

2. Thankfully I have learned discretion in dealing with my friends and their political views – many belong to the two capitalist parties and we deal with each others' political views and periodically take a jab (and give one too). And when the numbers are down – like blood sugar – and I needed a ride to a hospital – people were there.

So capitalism has a weakness. Friendship and respect for each other. I'd do the same for them & they did what was needed for me.

I'm better. Not yet 100%. Good enough to go back to work. Which leads me to point #3.

3. Sick days. I took 2. I have 12 contractually.

And I have all this not because the government is gracious. Neither is my boss.   It is because my predecessors in the place where I work fought for a union, won it, and passed the responsibility for keeping what they won to us.

We're negotiating a new contract. I have not heard any specifics, but the negotiators refuse to bring anything to the union unless they think it is good.

So, on doctors' orders (several of them) I am to take it easy and keep calm and slow down for a bit.

The blog might be a little light, but I will keep it going and get the furnace stoked hot soon.

Evidently I get a little moody when blogging and that can affect my blood sugar.

So I need to keep calm when updating the world on reality.

Lesson of the day: Unionize.

And keep good friends.

And keep calm.

The revolution needs living revolutionaries.