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Did you press the corpse with your finger?

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“I heard you were moving to Maryland and starting a tea farm. 😂”

“As I read this I wandered if this post would have been something that Catalina would have posted on her extremely exciting Instagram. 😀 “

Not mad. I thought the comments were funny, so the kitty is tongue in cheek. 😀

Let me tell you what my professional life has been like for the last 4 days.

Web searches:

  • Compact gun
  • Lightweight gun
  • First aid for gunshot wounds
  • Gun shot wound to torso
  • Collapsed lung
  • Gun shot wound to extremities
  • Tourniquet maximum time
  • First aid gun shot wounds
  • Rigor mortis timetable
  • Livor mortis timetable
  • Livor mortis duration
  • Is livor mortis permanent
  • How long is livor mortis observable

Email from Jeaniene Frost: Look, here is an article with the finger pressing the corpse. Did you have her press the corpse with her finger?

Image from Death and Kinetics

Email to the medical expert: Where could we shoot him and do we need to make up a sedative?

Medical expert: Long email, also urine.

Me to Gordon: We need to add a puddle of urine. Also torso wound won’t work.

Gordon: Makes sense.

Me: A paramedic emailed not that long ago about the bleeding out from a femoral artery. I could ask him about the first aid for gun wounds to extremities.

Web search:

  • Glock 43 clearing round problem

Gordon: It’s not a problem. You have to forcefully pull it back. It’s fine for her to have one.

Me: Okay, also how does she leave if the siege protocol is engaged? Like does she run? Is there a delay of like 30 seconds?

Gordon: What we be the purpose of the delay?

Me: I don’t know…?

Gordon: …

Me: …

15 minutes later

Me: I mean, technically he could do that, right?

Gordon: There would be briefings. I say we go with it, because everything else is too complicated.

Me: How many bullets… Did she add one to the magazine after chambering a round?

Gordon: Why would she do that? She is MS. It’s plenty.

Me: One, two, three, seven? No, six. Because one is in the gun…

Gordon: We have to name the drug something.

Me: You have to google it. Because we made up Equizol and now UK made it a real drug.

Gordon: ?

Web search:

  • Equizol

Gordon: Ha.

Me: Yep. It’s used for treatment of ulcers in horses.

Web search:

  • Styxine

Me: I see a moth, but that’s about it. I think we’re good.

Gordon: And done.

Me: End of scene. Wait, did we add the urine?

So you will take posts about tea and you will like it.

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  2. Your life is so full of sunlight and sparkles … (t-i-c)

    I am thrilled to take posts about an interesting subject that … almost got me to investigate. truly really uh huh but then you know i’dbe following and checking and getting all obsessive hmm????

  3. Too bad my father the Pathologist wasn’t still alive. He would have loved helping you out with the mediucal stuff.

  4. Hahaha! Oh goodness! Hugs to you both! Love it just love it. Cats are great at body language too! Hahaha! How much you wanna bet that someone reading this is thinking, “tea farm? What?” LOL

  6. This made me laugh so hard. And I think it’s amazing that you even manage to post to the blog so regularly, given that writing is your job. I even read the tea one, it’ll be useful someday.

    Thank you for the blog. And for the books. I just re-read KD and am starting at the beginning of HL again. Your characters are some of my all time favorites and revisiting them during this crazy time is comforting.

  9. I am a little mad at you about the tea post though. Your post was clearly malware of some kind and downloaded the site’s app to my phone.

    Then it placed an order for chocolate mint tea and chocolate chai supreme tea.

    That wasn’t very nice of you.

  10. Before I started following your blog (many years ago) I never thought about how much research it takes to write a book. Maybe because I usually don’t get so hung up with accuracy. I kinda roll with it. I’m so impressed! It makes me love your books even more because I understand what went into it.

    I love learning about stuff like that on the medical side. This post was awesome.

    Thank you for blogging and sharing not only info about the books but personal side as well!

  11. Ha! I absolutely love you two. Thanks for the smile of my morning! Now I’m off to that evil place that hold my paycheck

  12. I love you guys, you make me realize that my weird conversations with my husband are normal somewhere.

    I love all your books whither they make me laugh, cry or get me anger cause you killed/hurt someone I liked.

    So you guys keep right on doing what you need to do in order to write more books. Please and thank you with all my heart.

  13. Love that cat. I do love my cat but she wants to play with her prize a mouse and not kill or eat it…. Another clean up

  14. This morning, I was just thinking that I’ve missed reading your blog. Now that it’s evening, I’ve decided to check my email (which I don’t do daily).. I enjoyed your tea post. I love English Breakfast or Black Tea only when I’m sick. I didn’t realize there’s also chocolate tea! Thanks…. I also love how you both brainstorm to make your stories as realistic as possible. Another thanks.

  16. I love your response snippets! Especially when illustrated with cat pictures. Grin.
    Out of what must be a frustratingly long list of comments and questions, you and your husband gift us with glimpses into your life, random facts, interesting behind the scenes work and your time. Thank you!! You make the isolation better and easier to bear. Plus, we get proof that with excellent writers anything and everything can be made interesting! Well done and another grateful thank you!!

  19. I have this visual of a playground merry – go-round going round and round.

    I’m pleased with myself today, stained half the inside of my patio fence and it will be finished tomorrow. One more project checked off.

    Billings, MT got lots of snow on Saturday; dissonance check. So not missing snow and icy roads.

  21. The Glock 43 clearing round problem:

    That’s super easy to solve. I could have helped you with that. I’m a Glock girl (and have the T-Shirt to prove it). But, you have Gordon and he knows how to solve that and much more since he was in the Armed Forces.

    Anyway, if you need any more help regarding Glocks, I’m your girl and I’m at your disposal.

    Good luck with all that research!

  23. LOL. Crazy day! Some of us will take tea posts and love it. Forwarded to my two tea loving kiddos too.

  25. Hilarious!
    But after reading you guys, will have to give up my imaginary book writer profession, unless I also find my alter ego to reply to my craziness.
    Thanks for the laughs and smiles.

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