Thanks for reminding me, my wrist just flared up in the last two days. Am taking some IVM right now.

Re: my username - I had eleven kids. I don't like to talk about it, because most people say something stupid, like: didn't you have a TV (and I didn't LOL), but yes, a very hard twenty years when they were small - (I recommend earmuffs as a parenting aid - you might spare a little of your hearing when you get older). One of my pet hates was that the outside doors never stayed shut, no matter how many times I tried to keep the flies out in the summer, or the heat in, in winter. And we home-schooled, so the house was a school and a home at the same time - try that when the kids decide to be artists. Paint everywhere. There are bigger, but less noisy, problems now, like the choices they make as adults, as you say.

But the real reason for the username is that I joined here, when the whole Covid nonsense started blowing up - I felt like it was the end, because so many people were sucked in, and the narrative seemed almost impenetrable, with constant reminders to watch our dear leader on 'updates'. Since then, we have found some sort of equilibrium, and are watching workmates falling over multiple times with the Covid, while we sail through (b...b..b.. the vax was supposed to prevent that) but there it is.