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[dancingwoman]

@Kachina624  I'm tired but moving around...I guess things are healing like they are supposed to.  Still don't have pathology report from my 3 hr surgery at Lovelace last Wednesday.  It's always a waiting game for results...I'll keep you posted. Thanks for asking..DW

[dancingwoman]

@Kachina624  DH is braced for the snow... I haven't been out since we got home Friday..the plow is ready and firewood stacked...DW

[Kachina624]

@dancingwoman.  Interesting, I just heard on KOAT that a Navajo teacher at Durango is teaching a class in the Dine' language.  Probably makes more sense that it did me learning French.

[dancingwoman]

@Kachina624  I took Latin...go figure!  DW

[Kachina624]

@dancingwoman.  Are you aware that Lovelace, owned by Ardent Health, is one of the hospitals hacked over the weekend?  They're not taking patients and no medical records are available.  All surgeries canceled. Patients can't even get vital prescriptions refilled.   You may have a problem.  Better tune in to Albuquerque TV.  I doubt you can get further treatment without records.  This has been going on for a week with no resolution in sight.

[dancingwoman]

@Kachina624  My drs are not there...I just talked to them today and they didn't mention any problems..geez...I hate the hacker stuff...glad I already had my surgery..DW

[BlueFinch]

On the news yesterday they had a giant tumbleweed that was massive. As large as a car.

They clarified that everyone calls them TW's because they look much alike, but they're actually a different plant.

They're not native to US, but found their way here, I think he said from the Middle East.  

[Kachina624]

@dancingwoman.  Google "Ardent Health Care hack".  Medical facilities in 4 states in the South were affected.  They say they can't access any medical records.  Strange your doctor didn't mention it.

[Kachina624]

@BlueFinch.  Tumbleweeds are also known as Russian Thistle and originally came to the US in shipments of Russian wheat.  Boy have they flourished.  They stick together because they have interlocking thorns on them.  They're not pleasant to handle.

[BlueFinch]

@Kachina624 Maybe the Russian Thistle is what the news guy was talking about and I got the wrong origination. If they are gigantic in size, but look like a TW, it may be the Thistle. He didn't mention gnarly thorns though. Sounds awful to deal with.

It was fun to see, but I was more interested in looking at the monster, than paying attention to its history, since I don't run into tumbleweeds, unless I'm traveling out west.