diff --git a/web/src/discover/DiscoverPage.test.tsx b/web/src/discover/DiscoverPage.test.tsx
index f4591f2..ef3e8d7 100644
--- a/web/src/discover/DiscoverPage.test.tsx
+++ b/web/src/discover/DiscoverPage.test.tsx
@@ -654,7 +654,11 @@ describe('DiscoverPage', () => {
       expect(screen.queryByRole('dialog')).not.toBeInTheDocument()
     })
 
-    it('keeps the confirmation open while a removal is under way: Keep it, Escape and the scrim do nothing', async () => {
+    it.each([
+      ['Keep it', (confirm: HTMLElement) => fireEvent.click(within(confirm).getByRole('button', { name: 'Keep it' }))],
+      ['Escape', (confirm: HTMLElement) => fireEvent.keyDown(confirm, { key: 'Escape' })],
+      ['the scrim', (confirm: HTMLElement) => fireEvent.click(confirm.previousElementSibling!)],
+    ])('keeps the confirmation and sends one removal once Remove is activated: %s and a second Remove at once do nothing', async (_, dismiss) => {
       const archive = deferred()
       const server = stubQuestLog([PAD_THAI, GUMBO], { 'DELETE /api/v1/dinners/q1': () => archive.promise })
       await renderPage()
@@ -662,20 +666,46 @@ describe('DiscoverPage', () => {
 
       fireEvent.click(within(sheet).getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove Pad thai' }))
       const confirm = screen.getByRole('dialog', { name: 'Remove Pad thai?' })
-      fireEvent.click(within(confirm).getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove' }))
-      expect(await within(confirm).findByRole('button', { name: 'Removing…' })).toBeDisabled()
-      const keepIt = within(confirm).getByRole('button', { name: 'Keep it' })
-      expect(keepIt).toBeDisabled()
+      const removeButton = within(confirm).getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove' })
+      // Straight after Remove, without waiting for the pending request to render.
+      fireEvent.click(removeButton)
+      fireEvent.click(removeButton)
+      dismiss(confirm)
+      expect(screen.getByRole('dialog', { name: 'Remove Pad thai?' })).toBe(confirm)
 
-      fireEvent.click(keepIt)
-      fireEvent.keyDown(confirm, { key: 'Escape' })
-      fireEvent.click(confirm.previousElementSibling!)
+      expect(await within(confirm).findByRole('button', { name: 'Removing…' })).toBeDisabled()
+      expect(within(confirm).getByRole('button', { name: 'Keep it' })).toBeDisabled()
+      dismiss(confirm)
       expect(screen.getByRole('dialog', { name: 'Remove Pad thai?' })).toBe(confirm)
 
       server.questLogDinners.dinners = [GUMBO]
       await act(async () => archive.resolve(jsonResponse(200, { ...PAD_THAI, status: 'archived' })))
       await waitFor(() => expect(screen.queryByRole('dialog', { name: 'Remove Pad thai?' })).not.toBeInTheDocument())
       expect(names(sheet)).toEqual(['Shrimp gumbo'])
+      expect(sent(server.fetchMock)).toEqual(['DELETE /api/v1/dinners/q1'])
+    })
+
+    it('keeps focus in the confirmation, off its disabled buttons, while a removal is under way', async () => {
+      const archive = deferred()
+      const server = stubQuestLog([PAD_THAI, GUMBO], { 'DELETE /api/v1/dinners/q1': () => archive.promise })
+      await renderPage()
+      const sheet = await openSheet(2)
+
+      fireEvent.click(within(sheet).getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove Pad thai' }))
+      const confirm = screen.getByRole('dialog', { name: 'Remove Pad thai?' })
+      const removeButton = within(confirm).getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove' })
+      removeButton.focus()
+      fireEvent.click(removeButton)
+      expect(removeButton).toBeDisabled()
+      expect(confirm).toHaveFocus()
+
+      expect(await within(confirm).findByRole('button', { name: 'Removing…' })).toBeDisabled()
+      expect(confirm).toHaveFocus()
+
+      server.questLogDinners.dinners = [GUMBO]
+      await act(async () => archive.resolve(jsonResponse(200, { ...PAD_THAI, status: 'archived' })))
+      await waitFor(() => expect(screen.queryByRole('dialog', { name: 'Remove Pad thai?' })).not.toBeInTheDocument())
+      expect(within(sheet).getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove Shrimp gumbo' })).toHaveFocus()
     })
 
     it('keeps a dinner whose removal the server refuses, saying why', async () => {
diff --git a/web/src/discover/QuestLogSheet.tsx b/web/src/discover/QuestLogSheet.tsx
index 2e63c20..cafdfa7 100644
--- a/web/src/discover/QuestLogSheet.tsx
+++ b/web/src/discover/QuestLogSheet.tsx
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ export function QuestLogSheet({ open, dinners, onClose }: QuestLogSheetProps) {
   const removed = useRef<{ id: string; index: number } | null>(null)
   const removeButtons = useRef(new Map<string, HTMLButtonElement>())
   const sheetRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null)
+  // Whether a removal has been sent and not yet settled. The ref is set as
+  // Remove is activated, so a dismissal or a second Remove that arrives before
+  // the next render is already refused; the state renders it.
+  const sending = useRef(false)
+  const [sendingShown, setSendingShown] = useState(false)
 
   // Once a removal's confirmation has closed and the dinner has left the list,
   // focus goes to the remove button of the dinner now in its place, or of the
@@ -57,11 +62,29 @@ export function QuestLogSheet({ open, dinners, onClose }: QuestLogSheetProps) {
     else sheetRef.current!.closest<HTMLElement>('[role="dialog"]')!.focus()
   }, [removing, dinners])
 
+  function setSending(value: boolean) {
+    sending.current = value
+    setSendingShown(value)
+  }
+
   function cancelRemove() {
+    if (sending.current) return
     remove.reset()
     setRemoving(null)
   }
 
+  function confirmRemove() {
+    if (sending.current) return
+    setSending(true)
+    remove.mutate(removing!, {
+      onSuccess: (_data, dinner) => {
+        removed.current = { id: dinner.id, index: dinners.findIndex((d) => d.id === dinner.id) }
+        setRemoving(null)
+      },
+      onSettled: () => setSending(false),
+    })
+  }
+
   return (
     <>
       <Sheet open={open} onClose={onClose} aria-labelledby={titleId}>
@@ -108,21 +131,14 @@ export function QuestLogSheet({ open, dinners, onClose }: QuestLogSheetProps) {
       <Confirm
         open={removing !== null}
         title={`Remove ${removing?.name ?? ''}?`}
-        confirmLabel={remove.isPending ? 'Removing…' : 'Remove'}
+        confirmLabel={sendingShown ? 'Removing…' : 'Remove'}
         cancelLabel="Keep it"
-        busy={remove.isPending}
+        busy={sendingShown}
         // Once the removal is sent, it stands: the confirmation stays until it settles.
-        dismissible={!remove.isPending}
+        dismissible={!sendingShown}
         error={remove.isError ? `Couldn't remove it. ${remove.error.message}` : null}
         onCancel={cancelRemove}
-        onConfirm={() =>
-          remove.mutate(removing!, {
-            onSuccess: (_data, dinner) => {
-              removed.current = { id: dinner.id, index: dinners.findIndex((d) => d.id === dinner.id) }
-              setRemoving(null)
-            },
-          })
-        }
+        onConfirm={confirmRemove}
       >
         It leaves your Quest log for good.
       </Confirm>
diff --git a/web/src/settings/LeaveGuard.tsx b/web/src/settings/LeaveGuard.tsx
index 5938f1c..8081cb2 100644
--- a/web/src/settings/LeaveGuard.tsx
+++ b/web/src/settings/LeaveGuard.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { useEffect, useId, type ReactNode } from 'react'
+import { useEffect, useId, useLayoutEffect, useRef, type ReactNode } from 'react'
 import { useBlocker } from 'react-router'
 import { Button } from '../ui/Button.tsx'
 import { Sheet } from '../ui/Sheet.tsx'
@@ -58,12 +58,20 @@ export function Confirm({
   onConfirm,
 }: ConfirmProps) {
   const titleId = useId()
+  const sheetRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null)
+  // A focused button that becomes disabled loses focus to the page, outside
+  // the dialog; the dialog takes it instead.
+  useLayoutEffect(() => {
+    const dialog = sheetRef.current?.closest<HTMLElement>('[role="dialog"]')
+    const active = document.activeElement
+    if (dialog && active instanceof HTMLElement && active.matches(':disabled') && dialog.contains(active)) dialog.focus()
+  }, [busy, dismissible])
   function dismiss() {
     if (dismissible) onCancel()
   }
   return (
     <Sheet open={open} onClose={dismiss} aria-labelledby={titleId}>
-      <div className={styles.sheet}>
+      <div ref={sheetRef} className={styles.sheet}>
         <h2 id={titleId} className={styles.title}>
           {title}
         </h2>