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Oct. 29th, 2018 07:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckAt this point, I think I have another cold. My symptoms are still consistent with an allergic reaction, but if they were, I'd have expected them to get better when we were away from home for so long yesterday. I don't think I've ever had a cold that involved sinus itching, though.
I didn't use my c-PAP last night because I couldn't reliably breathe through my nose. I also didn't take Halcion because I thought I remembered my doctor saying something about there being a risk of depressed breathing but that my c-PAP mitigated it. I was pretty out of it by bedtime last night.
I slept a little. I know that because I dreamed, one of those things where I bounced back and forth between what I was dreaming being a story I was reading and it being a thing actually happening. I get those pretty often. Interestingly, this time it was an audiobook. Discounting poetry and graphic novels, I have been listening to more books than I read.
Most of the night, though, I tossed and turned because my sinuses were much happier when I lay on my side (either one) but my knees don't like that. The upper knee is generally okay, but the lower one ends up with pressure against the side of the kneecap that gets steadily more painful and feels a lot like the kneecap is being forced toward dislocation.
It rained the entire time we were in East Lansing, so Scott and I didn't do the walking around we had hoped to do. I still got some unique Ingress hacks, just not nearly as many as I'd hoped. Of course, it also would have been pretty miserable walking around while my nose was running and I kept sneezing.
The restaurant turned out to be very loud with music drowning out a lot of our conversation. The menu was not great for me. I basically could choose between pancakes and some form of toast. I had expected a lunch menu because we arrived at 1:30, but they had a brunch menu that was half egg dishes. The pancakes turned out to be eggy rather than cakelike, so I only risked eating part of one. Cordelia ate the rest (her friends thing canceled at the last minute, so she came along).
I had just assumed that, because they had burgers on their dinner menu, they'd have burgers at lunch time. They had four or five sandwich options, but they were all things that would have required major alterations and still have been risky. If it had been before noon, I might have gambled that the turkey lunchmeat would be safe, but that's not the way to bet as the stuff with nitrates/nitrites keeps better. There were some salad options, but, again, they were things that would need major alterations. I really didn't want to pay $14 for a plate of naked spinach. Generally speaking, I don't order things if I need to ask for more than two alterations to the menu description or need to ask for complicated ingredient lists (chicken salad or whitefish pate with 'blended herbs' is right out).
At any rate, I don't think the restaurant was what Scott's sister expected it to be. She had done a Google search for restaurants that did simple food and could handle gluten free. East Lansing is really not much but Michigan State University and things that cater to the students and faculty/staff, so I suspect there weren't a lot of options.
I'm supposed to have lunch with Scott's sister and a couple of her friends today at 1:00. I'd like to go, but I think I probably shouldn't, not on this amount of sleep and with the probability that I'm contagious. I'm headachy and miserable. I'd have skipped the gathering yesterday, but Scott's sister had rescheduled it to accommodate my eating schedule, so I felt that I really couldn't stay home sick.
I would like to go because I have so very few opportunities to be social with people face to face. I get distracted during online social interactions because I don't have such an obvious reminder as the physical presence of the people I'm talking to. Also, somewhere like Discord, I can't tell when I'm trying to start a conversation with an empty room, and I have trouble finding the rhythm of interaction.
My sinuses were better behaved in the dryness of the car with the heat on but got bad again every time I went out in the wet and stayed bad for at least ten minutes after I got back in the car.
I didn't use my c-PAP last night because I couldn't reliably breathe through my nose. I also didn't take Halcion because I thought I remembered my doctor saying something about there being a risk of depressed breathing but that my c-PAP mitigated it. I was pretty out of it by bedtime last night.
I slept a little. I know that because I dreamed, one of those things where I bounced back and forth between what I was dreaming being a story I was reading and it being a thing actually happening. I get those pretty often. Interestingly, this time it was an audiobook. Discounting poetry and graphic novels, I have been listening to more books than I read.
Most of the night, though, I tossed and turned because my sinuses were much happier when I lay on my side (either one) but my knees don't like that. The upper knee is generally okay, but the lower one ends up with pressure against the side of the kneecap that gets steadily more painful and feels a lot like the kneecap is being forced toward dislocation.
It rained the entire time we were in East Lansing, so Scott and I didn't do the walking around we had hoped to do. I still got some unique Ingress hacks, just not nearly as many as I'd hoped. Of course, it also would have been pretty miserable walking around while my nose was running and I kept sneezing.
The restaurant turned out to be very loud with music drowning out a lot of our conversation. The menu was not great for me. I basically could choose between pancakes and some form of toast. I had expected a lunch menu because we arrived at 1:30, but they had a brunch menu that was half egg dishes. The pancakes turned out to be eggy rather than cakelike, so I only risked eating part of one. Cordelia ate the rest (her friends thing canceled at the last minute, so she came along).
I had just assumed that, because they had burgers on their dinner menu, they'd have burgers at lunch time. They had four or five sandwich options, but they were all things that would have required major alterations and still have been risky. If it had been before noon, I might have gambled that the turkey lunchmeat would be safe, but that's not the way to bet as the stuff with nitrates/nitrites keeps better. There were some salad options, but, again, they were things that would need major alterations. I really didn't want to pay $14 for a plate of naked spinach. Generally speaking, I don't order things if I need to ask for more than two alterations to the menu description or need to ask for complicated ingredient lists (chicken salad or whitefish pate with 'blended herbs' is right out).
At any rate, I don't think the restaurant was what Scott's sister expected it to be. She had done a Google search for restaurants that did simple food and could handle gluten free. East Lansing is really not much but Michigan State University and things that cater to the students and faculty/staff, so I suspect there weren't a lot of options.
I'm supposed to have lunch with Scott's sister and a couple of her friends today at 1:00. I'd like to go, but I think I probably shouldn't, not on this amount of sleep and with the probability that I'm contagious. I'm headachy and miserable. I'd have skipped the gathering yesterday, but Scott's sister had rescheduled it to accommodate my eating schedule, so I felt that I really couldn't stay home sick.
I would like to go because I have so very few opportunities to be social with people face to face. I get distracted during online social interactions because I don't have such an obvious reminder as the physical presence of the people I'm talking to. Also, somewhere like Discord, I can't tell when I'm trying to start a conversation with an empty room, and I have trouble finding the rhythm of interaction.
My sinuses were better behaved in the dryness of the car with the heat on but got bad again every time I went out in the wet and stayed bad for at least ten minutes after I got back in the car.
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Date: 2018-10-29 06:55 pm (UTC)Does Scott's sister know about the app/website "Find Me Gluten Free"? I've had pretty good success with finding gluten-free food with that.
East Lansing has a very active gluten-free support group, so I would expect there to be some decent restaurant options there, though I haven't personally done any exploring, so I don't know what's actually there. Bummer that the restaurant you ended up at doesn't seem to have worked out well. :-(
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Date: 2018-11-06 03:24 pm (UTC)Scott's sister does know. The problem is that my restrictions and Scott's restrictions and our niece's restrictions and Scott's father's restrictions have zero to do with needing GF food (and don't intersect). Combining those with trying to find a place in East Lansing where all of the restaurants are aimed at undergraduate students.
Seriously, this place left me with the choice of pancakes, English muffins, or toast. There was nothing else on the menu that wouldn't make me sick. Adjusting any of the other offerings to make them edible by me would have required starting from scratch and omitting at least half of the ingredients. Their online dinner menu had nothing at all on it that I would have felt safe eating at dinner time (some of those things would have been fine for breakfast; a subset of those would have been safe for lunch, just not for dinner).
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Date: 2018-10-30 12:24 am (UTC)