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Jan. 16th, 2018 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI'm trying a lemon ginger tea from Celestial Seasonings (is there an 's' on the end? I can never remember, and looking it up requires, you know, effort). The good news is that it's not making my nose run. The bad news is that I taste neither lemon nor ginger. Maybe I didn't steep it long enough? I went for five minutes. There's a kind of vague bite that I only really get around my tonsils and that might be purely heat from the tea not having cooled all that much.
My sinuses were too irritated last night for me to use the c-PAP, and it was pretty much the best night of sleep I've had in months. I am not at all sure what to do about that since the c-PAP is necessary to address sleep apnea which will definitely shorten my life. The thing is that feeling utterly exhausted every single day is killing me, too. At this point, I only consider myself to have awoken with a headache if the pain wakes me or if it's not gone within an hour after I get up. This morning, I didn't have that business-as-usual headache. I've got two months before I see the sleep disorders people again.
My month to date word count is almost 22K, so I think this month is going to end up with as high a word count as December. Barring anything unexpected happening, of course. Today, I came up with 2800 words of a completely new AU for a fandom I've written before. What I've got so far requires some serious world building to carry it, though, so I may put it on a back burner for a while until I figure out those details.
My sinuses were less unhappy with me through most of today than they had been for a while. Then I took the trash and recycling to the curb, and now the right side of my face and my right ear hate me again. Apparently, while my lungs are now fine with the cold, my sinuses really, really aren't.
I still haven't managed to deal with any of the phone calls I need to make. I need a couple of good days in a row in order to do the more optional stuff. Today was sorting laundry, changing sheets (past due for it), getting the trash and recycling out, and emptying the dishwasher.
I've decided to switch back to using Gel-Kam for my fluoride add-on toothpaste. The concentration of stannous fluoride is lower than the sodium fluoride concentration in the Prevident, but the stannous fluoride feels different on my teeth and seems to do a better job of limiting the sensitivity of my teeth. The stuff I found online about stannous fluoride read a little too much like advertising copy for me to take it entirely seriously, but Gel-Kam doesn't require a prescription, and Prevident does. A tube of Gel-Kam also lasts slightly (not a lot but slightly) longer than a bottle of Prevident does and costs about $2 less. It's impossible to tell how much is left in the bottle of Prevident except by weight, and having something in there does not guarantee being able to get it out. Prevident is thick enough to need several minutes to get the stuff on the bottom of the bottle to the opening at the top which kind of encourages the assumption that there's nothing left in there.
My sinuses were too irritated last night for me to use the c-PAP, and it was pretty much the best night of sleep I've had in months. I am not at all sure what to do about that since the c-PAP is necessary to address sleep apnea which will definitely shorten my life. The thing is that feeling utterly exhausted every single day is killing me, too. At this point, I only consider myself to have awoken with a headache if the pain wakes me or if it's not gone within an hour after I get up. This morning, I didn't have that business-as-usual headache. I've got two months before I see the sleep disorders people again.
My month to date word count is almost 22K, so I think this month is going to end up with as high a word count as December. Barring anything unexpected happening, of course. Today, I came up with 2800 words of a completely new AU for a fandom I've written before. What I've got so far requires some serious world building to carry it, though, so I may put it on a back burner for a while until I figure out those details.
My sinuses were less unhappy with me through most of today than they had been for a while. Then I took the trash and recycling to the curb, and now the right side of my face and my right ear hate me again. Apparently, while my lungs are now fine with the cold, my sinuses really, really aren't.
I still haven't managed to deal with any of the phone calls I need to make. I need a couple of good days in a row in order to do the more optional stuff. Today was sorting laundry, changing sheets (past due for it), getting the trash and recycling out, and emptying the dishwasher.
I've decided to switch back to using Gel-Kam for my fluoride add-on toothpaste. The concentration of stannous fluoride is lower than the sodium fluoride concentration in the Prevident, but the stannous fluoride feels different on my teeth and seems to do a better job of limiting the sensitivity of my teeth. The stuff I found online about stannous fluoride read a little too much like advertising copy for me to take it entirely seriously, but Gel-Kam doesn't require a prescription, and Prevident does. A tube of Gel-Kam also lasts slightly (not a lot but slightly) longer than a bottle of Prevident does and costs about $2 less. It's impossible to tell how much is left in the bottle of Prevident except by weight, and having something in there does not guarantee being able to get it out. Prevident is thick enough to need several minutes to get the stuff on the bottom of the bottle to the opening at the top which kind of encourages the assumption that there's nothing left in there.
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Date: 2018-01-17 12:50 am (UTC)That must be so frustrating to need the CPAP but not to be able to sleep well with it. I'm so sorry.
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Date: 2018-01-17 09:27 pm (UTC)Also, in an unrelated note, it is Celestial Seasonings. I can see a box from here. :)