[ She actually had been against moving from the hospital at the start, but as the week has ticked on her own temper has grown to the point that she's torn up papers, kicked over her chair, flipped a coffee table in her room and even almost tore up a pillow in her frustration without anyone to cling onto at the time.

Oxytocin has become a new best friend, something she's come to rely on when her mind can't focus as well and all she can think about is the need to eat.

She's taken it before this phonecall update starts, notes spread out in front of her in the living room as they are, and Peter's science suitcase to her right. It's been a blessing, having something to use when she had the bare minimal here. ]

I shall not begin with pleasantaries, only with my update. [ She's a lot more curt than before, wavering on how she tries to make her voice softer because she doesn't want to be like this.

It's just so hard when you've eaten all the snacks you think you can and then even that isn't enough. ]

With the vaccine now in testing stages, I have moved onto Giovanni's blood samples and can ask him for more once he is home. I tested some of the regular blood samples with his as it may be that his antibodies may assume that other blood is a foreign object and elimate anything there. It would seem that is not as big of an issue as I had worried about, however.