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Jan. 10th, 2019 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI thought I'd be back to posting before this, but I guess I needed the time. I'm not sure how often I'll be posting for a while. I'm taking it off of my Habitica dailies for a while.
Monday night, I bought a bottled tea that I like and only processed, after the first swallow, that I really shouldn't have it now that I know that raspberries give me gas and other IBS issues. I had trouble that way all Tuesday morning, so that's how little raspberry I can have.
We were out Monday night because Cordelia had a choir rehearsal (the big concert is this Saturday, so we'll have three more rehearsals to navigate). Scott and I dropped her off and went to look at dishwashers and refrigerators. We decided-- tentatively-- what we wanted, but I was really tired, and Scott wanted a little research time, so Scott decided he'd come back to buy them during the next rehearsal. I'm not sure he realized that the next rehearsal is at a different high school than this one was.
We really want the new appliances ASAP. At least, I do. Another bit has corroded off the dishwasher rack (replacing the racks costs half as much as replacing the whole thing, and the dishwasher is 15 years old and has a broken latch). In terms of the fridge, we're looking at one with French doors and a lower freezer drawer. With the current refrigerator, I have to bend very low to get at most things and really don't feel comfortable doing it without support.
My parents and my brother visited on Sunday. I was a little concerned that we wouldn't be able to fill the time, but they only stayed about four hours. We had lunch at Totoro and walked downtown a bit. All of us parking at the library and walking to Totoro filled at least an extra half an hour beyond lunch, and my brother wanted to browse at a store that sells used CDs and vinyl.
I'm trying to get myself moving on writing again because I actually have a deadline to meet. I haven't written any fiction since the beginning of the year, and well... deadline. I'm hosting a write-in on Sunday, and I'm usually productive at those, so I'm hoping that will get this exchange story back on track.
I took the ornaments off of the Christmas tree today. I'm going to wait and let Scott take the tree apart for storage. I also changed the sheets, did three loads of laundry, and filled out some insurance forms.
This has been a very bad week in terms of me being utterly exhausted. Some of it is that we're back on the getting up for school schedule. Some of it is me having trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. Some of it is me having to deal with things I find stressful and exhausting even when I'm getting good sleep.
On the plus side, in spite of being low on sleep, I haven't had a migraine. On the minus side, my being tired is apparently more noticeable to Scott and Cordelia now because I actually get groggy. I think the salt intake change might be a factor. I'm used to being so wound up that I keep functioning anyway. I think my body's rebalancing. I'm less interested in sugary foods than I was, so I wonder if I was going after those in hopes of getting more salt.
I saw a doctor at UHS on the 3rd to follow up on the ER trip in mid-December. My primary care doctor was on vacation, so I saw someone else. I managed to get an appointment with my doctor in mid-February. They did a follow up EKG because there was some weirdness on the one done in the ER. The phrase on the ER one was 'cannot rule out anterior infarct' which, for some reason, I found alarming. I just also figured that, by the time I saw the report on the 30th, ten days had passed without me feeling particularly different from my usual.
At any rate, the UHS EKG report is back and is labeled as 'borderline.' As far as I can tell, that means that everything's within normal range but skewed in ways that the cardiologist thinks might need looking at/following up on. The particular things that are most potentially worrying, however, are all things that would show other, pretty unmistakable symptoms and that will sometimes read weirdly for people with large breasts.
The patient portal for the UMHS offers graphs of past results on tests, and I've been interested to look at some of them, but they're all unlabeled in terms of the y-axis which makes them less than useful. Also the 'about this test' button that's supposed to lead to an informational blurb explaining what the test is, how it's done, why it's ordered, etc. in a very generic way, is utterly broken. Every time I try it now, it goes to a 'no search results found' page. I really doubt that the University of Michigan Medical System doesn't have a page with an explanation of what an EKG is or what a basic metabolic panel is.
Monday night, I bought a bottled tea that I like and only processed, after the first swallow, that I really shouldn't have it now that I know that raspberries give me gas and other IBS issues. I had trouble that way all Tuesday morning, so that's how little raspberry I can have.
We were out Monday night because Cordelia had a choir rehearsal (the big concert is this Saturday, so we'll have three more rehearsals to navigate). Scott and I dropped her off and went to look at dishwashers and refrigerators. We decided-- tentatively-- what we wanted, but I was really tired, and Scott wanted a little research time, so Scott decided he'd come back to buy them during the next rehearsal. I'm not sure he realized that the next rehearsal is at a different high school than this one was.
We really want the new appliances ASAP. At least, I do. Another bit has corroded off the dishwasher rack (replacing the racks costs half as much as replacing the whole thing, and the dishwasher is 15 years old and has a broken latch). In terms of the fridge, we're looking at one with French doors and a lower freezer drawer. With the current refrigerator, I have to bend very low to get at most things and really don't feel comfortable doing it without support.
My parents and my brother visited on Sunday. I was a little concerned that we wouldn't be able to fill the time, but they only stayed about four hours. We had lunch at Totoro and walked downtown a bit. All of us parking at the library and walking to Totoro filled at least an extra half an hour beyond lunch, and my brother wanted to browse at a store that sells used CDs and vinyl.
I'm trying to get myself moving on writing again because I actually have a deadline to meet. I haven't written any fiction since the beginning of the year, and well... deadline. I'm hosting a write-in on Sunday, and I'm usually productive at those, so I'm hoping that will get this exchange story back on track.
I took the ornaments off of the Christmas tree today. I'm going to wait and let Scott take the tree apart for storage. I also changed the sheets, did three loads of laundry, and filled out some insurance forms.
This has been a very bad week in terms of me being utterly exhausted. Some of it is that we're back on the getting up for school schedule. Some of it is me having trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. Some of it is me having to deal with things I find stressful and exhausting even when I'm getting good sleep.
On the plus side, in spite of being low on sleep, I haven't had a migraine. On the minus side, my being tired is apparently more noticeable to Scott and Cordelia now because I actually get groggy. I think the salt intake change might be a factor. I'm used to being so wound up that I keep functioning anyway. I think my body's rebalancing. I'm less interested in sugary foods than I was, so I wonder if I was going after those in hopes of getting more salt.
I saw a doctor at UHS on the 3rd to follow up on the ER trip in mid-December. My primary care doctor was on vacation, so I saw someone else. I managed to get an appointment with my doctor in mid-February. They did a follow up EKG because there was some weirdness on the one done in the ER. The phrase on the ER one was 'cannot rule out anterior infarct' which, for some reason, I found alarming. I just also figured that, by the time I saw the report on the 30th, ten days had passed without me feeling particularly different from my usual.
At any rate, the UHS EKG report is back and is labeled as 'borderline.' As far as I can tell, that means that everything's within normal range but skewed in ways that the cardiologist thinks might need looking at/following up on. The particular things that are most potentially worrying, however, are all things that would show other, pretty unmistakable symptoms and that will sometimes read weirdly for people with large breasts.
The patient portal for the UMHS offers graphs of past results on tests, and I've been interested to look at some of them, but they're all unlabeled in terms of the y-axis which makes them less than useful. Also the 'about this test' button that's supposed to lead to an informational blurb explaining what the test is, how it's done, why it's ordered, etc. in a very generic way, is utterly broken. Every time I try it now, it goes to a 'no search results found' page. I really doubt that the University of Michigan Medical System doesn't have a page with an explanation of what an EKG is or what a basic metabolic panel is.
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Date: 2019-01-11 02:19 am (UTC)I'm sorry you've been so tired.
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Date: 2019-01-11 08:29 am (UTC)