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Yesterday's plans got changed not long after I posted. I had a neurology appointment scheduled for next June to look into my hand tremors, and they called this morning to ask if I could make it at 1 p.m. yesterday. I decided that that was likely to be more important than the parent-teacher conferences and that it was possible I'd still be able to manage the conferences anyway.
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evalerie gave me a ride to the appointment which was at the East Ann Arbor clinic. I saw a med student first and then talked to her supervising doctor. That was interesting because he was pointing things out about what was going on in ways that gave me useful information.
I have something called 'essential tremor.' The tremor part will likely get worse as I get older, but it's not associated with neural degeneration or other things likely to kill me. I'm just going to have more issues with using utensils. The first line of treatment to reduce the tremors is beta blockers which the doctor said are unpredictable with asthma, so I'm trying something called primidone at 25 mg a night for two weeks. If I tolerate that dosage, I'm to increase it.
I took the first dose around 8 p.m and didn't feel sedated by it. I wanted to take it earlier than bedtime because I didn't want to mix it with the Halcion and then sleep. The neurologist said the primidone might be sedating and that my Halcion dosage might need to be adjusted. I took 0.25 mg of Halcion at 10 p.m. and then started feeling sleepier than I normally would with that dose of Halcion. I slept soundly.
This morning, I've been groggy and clumsy and aching as if I have a fever, so I'm not quite sure what I can do safely. I've emailed my psychiatrist who prescribed the Halcion to ask her advice about that aspect of things. I'm wondering if cutting the tablet to take half a dose of the Halcion might be worth trying. I'm not convinced the primidone will help me sleep, but the two together are a bit much.
Essential tremor is sometimes a hereditary thing. My sister thinks she remembers one of our great-grandmothers having issues like this, just not until her 70s. Our surviving grandparent is that great-grandmother's daughter. I don't recall noticing Grandma having issues, but I'm not sure if I'd have noticed. I don't see my father often enough to know if he has tremors.
After the appointment, I caught the university shuttle to the hospital. I didn't realize how long that would take. I'd been under the impression that it was just out and back, but this one meandered through several different far flung university properties. I didn't get downtown until 3 p.m.
A bit after that, while I was trying to figure out which bus I needed for getting to Skyline, my phone died with no warning. Fortunately, I had a charger with me and was able to get it back, but it had been at 50% less than half an hour before. Playing Ingress depletes battery charge, but it doesn't eat through it *that* fast.
At any rate, I stopped at the Starbucks on Main St and got coffee because I was cold. I'd left home without a jacket because I hadn't realized how bad the wind was. I'm normally good with short sleeves down to at least 50F, but yesterday was unpleasant.
The city bus company's online ride planner was broken. It wouldn't accept anything I put in as starting point or destination. I'd had problems with it earlier in the day but had hoped that it would be fixed. At any rate, I resorted to Google for route planning which... was not a rousing success. It told me to get the Miller bus at Main and Huron, but when I got there, I couldn't see a sign for a bus stop. The signs are tiny, and the stop could have been anywhere within half a block of the intersection.
I ended up walking on to Miller and trying the route planning again. At that point, it told me I'd missed the bus I wanted and would have to wait 25 minutes for another one. I decided to walk up Miller for that time because I'd have frozen if I'd stayed at a stop that long. Also, standing hurts more than walking for the same duration.
The bus I finally got was packed. No one was standing, but there were only about three empty seats. It went to the commuter lot first, and everybody got off but me and the driver. Then it went to Skyline. I was a little surprised to be the only person going there, given parent-teacher conferences, but I was.
I got to Skyline a bit after 5 p.m. I saw Cordelia's science teacher (no line) and math teacher (long line) before Scott arrived from work. All of Cordelia's teachers this trimester are women.
Scott and I went on to talk to Cordelia's English teacher (who really, really loved the idea of a book club) and choir teacher and psychology teacher.
Then we went home, and I fell over, and Scott and Cordelia went to Kroger to pick up prescriptions.
I'm now two weeks behind on The Good Place, but I can't think well enough to watch it and appreciate it.
evalerie gave me a ride to the appointment which was at the East Ann Arbor clinic. I saw a med student first and then talked to her supervising doctor. That was interesting because he was pointing things out about what was going on in ways that gave me useful information.I have something called 'essential tremor.' The tremor part will likely get worse as I get older, but it's not associated with neural degeneration or other things likely to kill me. I'm just going to have more issues with using utensils. The first line of treatment to reduce the tremors is beta blockers which the doctor said are unpredictable with asthma, so I'm trying something called primidone at 25 mg a night for two weeks. If I tolerate that dosage, I'm to increase it.
I took the first dose around 8 p.m and didn't feel sedated by it. I wanted to take it earlier than bedtime because I didn't want to mix it with the Halcion and then sleep. The neurologist said the primidone might be sedating and that my Halcion dosage might need to be adjusted. I took 0.25 mg of Halcion at 10 p.m. and then started feeling sleepier than I normally would with that dose of Halcion. I slept soundly.
This morning, I've been groggy and clumsy and aching as if I have a fever, so I'm not quite sure what I can do safely. I've emailed my psychiatrist who prescribed the Halcion to ask her advice about that aspect of things. I'm wondering if cutting the tablet to take half a dose of the Halcion might be worth trying. I'm not convinced the primidone will help me sleep, but the two together are a bit much.
Essential tremor is sometimes a hereditary thing. My sister thinks she remembers one of our great-grandmothers having issues like this, just not until her 70s. Our surviving grandparent is that great-grandmother's daughter. I don't recall noticing Grandma having issues, but I'm not sure if I'd have noticed. I don't see my father often enough to know if he has tremors.
After the appointment, I caught the university shuttle to the hospital. I didn't realize how long that would take. I'd been under the impression that it was just out and back, but this one meandered through several different far flung university properties. I didn't get downtown until 3 p.m.
A bit after that, while I was trying to figure out which bus I needed for getting to Skyline, my phone died with no warning. Fortunately, I had a charger with me and was able to get it back, but it had been at 50% less than half an hour before. Playing Ingress depletes battery charge, but it doesn't eat through it *that* fast.
At any rate, I stopped at the Starbucks on Main St and got coffee because I was cold. I'd left home without a jacket because I hadn't realized how bad the wind was. I'm normally good with short sleeves down to at least 50F, but yesterday was unpleasant.
The city bus company's online ride planner was broken. It wouldn't accept anything I put in as starting point or destination. I'd had problems with it earlier in the day but had hoped that it would be fixed. At any rate, I resorted to Google for route planning which... was not a rousing success. It told me to get the Miller bus at Main and Huron, but when I got there, I couldn't see a sign for a bus stop. The signs are tiny, and the stop could have been anywhere within half a block of the intersection.
I ended up walking on to Miller and trying the route planning again. At that point, it told me I'd missed the bus I wanted and would have to wait 25 minutes for another one. I decided to walk up Miller for that time because I'd have frozen if I'd stayed at a stop that long. Also, standing hurts more than walking for the same duration.
The bus I finally got was packed. No one was standing, but there were only about three empty seats. It went to the commuter lot first, and everybody got off but me and the driver. Then it went to Skyline. I was a little surprised to be the only person going there, given parent-teacher conferences, but I was.
I got to Skyline a bit after 5 p.m. I saw Cordelia's science teacher (no line) and math teacher (long line) before Scott arrived from work. All of Cordelia's teachers this trimester are women.
Scott and I went on to talk to Cordelia's English teacher (who really, really loved the idea of a book club) and choir teacher and psychology teacher.
Then we went home, and I fell over, and Scott and Cordelia went to Kroger to pick up prescriptions.
I'm now two weeks behind on The Good Place, but I can't think well enough to watch it and appreciate it.
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