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Jun. 30th, 2020 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckIt's been a long month. I suspect that July will feel longer still.
I think that part of my absence here has been stress, but a good chunk of it was the fact that Pepcid gives me migraines. I started that at prescription strength after my birthday, and I had five migraines between 1 June and 15 June. I also had some cognitive issues and depression that seem to have been related. Since changing to Tagamet, I'm doing better in that regard.
I'm not doing better in terms of the reflux, though. The OTC Tagamet doesn't work as well as ranitidine did, and the other options my gastroenterologist offered contain things that will make me quite sick. She also wants me to sleep exclusively on my left side which I can't manage due to hip, knee, and shoulder pain.
My hands are getting worse. I'm trying to avoid using my right hand as much as I can, but it's hard. I'm very right handed, and I always reach out first with that hand. There are some things I can still manage with that hand without agony and many things for which I really need both hands.
I didn't write much this month. Mostly I worked on my Fandom 5K assignment. That archive should reveal later today. I don't think I'll have anything ready to post for the Nonconathon 2020 which reveals (I think) this coming weekend. Usually I do, but my writing brain has been on vacation. Or something.
I haven't read anything here in weeks. I'm definitely not going to try to backread. I apologize for that, but I think trying would stress me out too much.
I still haven't adjusted to Scott being back on first shift. He's mostly going to bed without me, and then I try not to wake him when I come to bed. Cordelia kind of likes having me up, and we've had some good talks after midnight, but it would be better for me if I could sleep on a more consistent schedule.
My sister and her family are moving from the Atlanta area to Charlotte. Her MIL has a large house and really needs someone living with her. They don't know their exact schedule yet because some of it depends on selling their house and her business, but their son will be in Charlotte by the beginning of August because of school.
Cordelia's choir's Spain trip has been postponed until 2022, so Cordelia will not be going. She'll have graduated before it happens. We're getting at least some of our money back. I'm not sure if we're getting all of it, but we're hoping for most.
We've been having sporadic internet issues that I suspect are all in our equipment. Saturday, Scott couldn't reach the internet from his laptop or his phone and kept insisting that Cordelia and I must be wrong about having internet ourselves. He even called to schedule a technician to come because he was so convinced.
Scott had to reinstall his OS. After that, he canceled the appointment. I tried to get him to understand that we have issues, but those issues all have to do with the intermediate server inside the house. We have A which connects directly to our internet. A is stable and only goes down when our outside connection does. B connects through A and is what we're supposed to use for our laptops, phones, etc. (I don't understand the ins and outs of why or how and may be explaining badly because of it.)
B glitches two or three times a week, so I have my devices set to move to A when that happens. Scott usually isn't around when that happens, and I don't think he believes me about it. I suspect that that piece of hardware needs replacing. I think Scott is starting to suspect, too, but he just ordered laptops for me and Cordelia, so the budget for computer equipment is particularly inelastic right now.
Also, he'll have to research what's available in terms of replacements and figure out the tradeoffs.
I'm still working on that thumb drive of Project Gutenberg books and of fics for my mother. They have solid internet now, so it's less urgent than it was, but I hope to get it mailed in the next week anyway. I've been working on it for roughly six weeks. The epub files take so very little space that I keep looking at the unused memory and feeling like I should find more to put on. I just don't know what.
Once I ran out of easily identified mysteries, I put on everything I could find in Swedish (she was an exchange student there in the 60s), a bunch of moderately well known authors, authors I recognized as people she'd recommended to me, and collections of folk/fairy tales. I think she studied history as an undergraduate and might be interested in books in that direction, but 'history' is over-broad for Project Gutenberg. I don't know her areas of interest.
Possibly, I'll look at women's rights movement related stuff. Right now, I'm using the random button a lot and seeing what turns up. I'm a little bit boggled by how many books there are in Finnish. I assume that some group there is making or has made a very serious effort to scan things and get them up.
Subject tagging on Project Gutenberg seems to be very sparse for fiction. I put some of that down to the general awkwardness of LC subject headings and some of that down to difficulties in tagging fiction. Tagging a non-fiction work (in a language one knows, at least) is usually easier because such works announce the subject matter. Accurately and thoroughly tagging a work of fiction generally requires having read it, and the tags are usually less useful than a back cover blurb would be.
My sister called this morning to let me know that our grandmother is in hospice. She's 95, and it's not unexpected. She's not ill; she's just old and tired. She hasn't really been interested in food for the last couple of years, so I was expecting this news sooner.
Scott and I celebrated our 27th anniversary on Friday. He tried to get the day off but wasn't able to, so we got delivery from Totoro on Saturday and watched some Netflix DVDs together.
When I went to bed Saturday night, I started having sinus problems as soon as I put on my c-pap headgear. I was up until 7 a.m. with sneezing and a runny nose. I dozed for a bit then but didn't really sleep until Sunday evening. I've been fine since, even while using the c-pap, but it's frustrating.
We have a new dehumidifier. The old one died when we tried to get it going this spring. Scott took it apart two or three times to clean it, following directions on YouTube, but nothing helped. It was out of warranty by a few months, and we decided not to try getting someone in to look at it. The new dehumidifier is helping the general comfort of the house, but it's now warmer in the basement than it is upstairs, and I'm a little concerned about that.
We have crickets in the basement. That happens every few years, but it's been long enough that Cordelia didn't recognize the sound and made Scott search the basement for other creatures, just in case.
I asked my primary care doctor if I could get a referral to a nutritionist who collaborates with hand OT people to figure out feasible food options for people with hand issues, digestive issues, fatigue issues, and blood sugar issues. She tells me that there's nobody like that in the UMHS which doesn't entirely surprise me but is very frustrating. I can't possibly be the only person with my sort of intersecting issues.
I think that part of my absence here has been stress, but a good chunk of it was the fact that Pepcid gives me migraines. I started that at prescription strength after my birthday, and I had five migraines between 1 June and 15 June. I also had some cognitive issues and depression that seem to have been related. Since changing to Tagamet, I'm doing better in that regard.
I'm not doing better in terms of the reflux, though. The OTC Tagamet doesn't work as well as ranitidine did, and the other options my gastroenterologist offered contain things that will make me quite sick. She also wants me to sleep exclusively on my left side which I can't manage due to hip, knee, and shoulder pain.
My hands are getting worse. I'm trying to avoid using my right hand as much as I can, but it's hard. I'm very right handed, and I always reach out first with that hand. There are some things I can still manage with that hand without agony and many things for which I really need both hands.
I didn't write much this month. Mostly I worked on my Fandom 5K assignment. That archive should reveal later today. I don't think I'll have anything ready to post for the Nonconathon 2020 which reveals (I think) this coming weekend. Usually I do, but my writing brain has been on vacation. Or something.
I haven't read anything here in weeks. I'm definitely not going to try to backread. I apologize for that, but I think trying would stress me out too much.
I still haven't adjusted to Scott being back on first shift. He's mostly going to bed without me, and then I try not to wake him when I come to bed. Cordelia kind of likes having me up, and we've had some good talks after midnight, but it would be better for me if I could sleep on a more consistent schedule.
My sister and her family are moving from the Atlanta area to Charlotte. Her MIL has a large house and really needs someone living with her. They don't know their exact schedule yet because some of it depends on selling their house and her business, but their son will be in Charlotte by the beginning of August because of school.
Cordelia's choir's Spain trip has been postponed until 2022, so Cordelia will not be going. She'll have graduated before it happens. We're getting at least some of our money back. I'm not sure if we're getting all of it, but we're hoping for most.
We've been having sporadic internet issues that I suspect are all in our equipment. Saturday, Scott couldn't reach the internet from his laptop or his phone and kept insisting that Cordelia and I must be wrong about having internet ourselves. He even called to schedule a technician to come because he was so convinced.
Scott had to reinstall his OS. After that, he canceled the appointment. I tried to get him to understand that we have issues, but those issues all have to do with the intermediate server inside the house. We have A which connects directly to our internet. A is stable and only goes down when our outside connection does. B connects through A and is what we're supposed to use for our laptops, phones, etc. (I don't understand the ins and outs of why or how and may be explaining badly because of it.)
B glitches two or three times a week, so I have my devices set to move to A when that happens. Scott usually isn't around when that happens, and I don't think he believes me about it. I suspect that that piece of hardware needs replacing. I think Scott is starting to suspect, too, but he just ordered laptops for me and Cordelia, so the budget for computer equipment is particularly inelastic right now.
Also, he'll have to research what's available in terms of replacements and figure out the tradeoffs.
I'm still working on that thumb drive of Project Gutenberg books and of fics for my mother. They have solid internet now, so it's less urgent than it was, but I hope to get it mailed in the next week anyway. I've been working on it for roughly six weeks. The epub files take so very little space that I keep looking at the unused memory and feeling like I should find more to put on. I just don't know what.
Once I ran out of easily identified mysteries, I put on everything I could find in Swedish (she was an exchange student there in the 60s), a bunch of moderately well known authors, authors I recognized as people she'd recommended to me, and collections of folk/fairy tales. I think she studied history as an undergraduate and might be interested in books in that direction, but 'history' is over-broad for Project Gutenberg. I don't know her areas of interest.
Possibly, I'll look at women's rights movement related stuff. Right now, I'm using the random button a lot and seeing what turns up. I'm a little bit boggled by how many books there are in Finnish. I assume that some group there is making or has made a very serious effort to scan things and get them up.
Subject tagging on Project Gutenberg seems to be very sparse for fiction. I put some of that down to the general awkwardness of LC subject headings and some of that down to difficulties in tagging fiction. Tagging a non-fiction work (in a language one knows, at least) is usually easier because such works announce the subject matter. Accurately and thoroughly tagging a work of fiction generally requires having read it, and the tags are usually less useful than a back cover blurb would be.
My sister called this morning to let me know that our grandmother is in hospice. She's 95, and it's not unexpected. She's not ill; she's just old and tired. She hasn't really been interested in food for the last couple of years, so I was expecting this news sooner.
Scott and I celebrated our 27th anniversary on Friday. He tried to get the day off but wasn't able to, so we got delivery from Totoro on Saturday and watched some Netflix DVDs together.
When I went to bed Saturday night, I started having sinus problems as soon as I put on my c-pap headgear. I was up until 7 a.m. with sneezing and a runny nose. I dozed for a bit then but didn't really sleep until Sunday evening. I've been fine since, even while using the c-pap, but it's frustrating.
We have a new dehumidifier. The old one died when we tried to get it going this spring. Scott took it apart two or three times to clean it, following directions on YouTube, but nothing helped. It was out of warranty by a few months, and we decided not to try getting someone in to look at it. The new dehumidifier is helping the general comfort of the house, but it's now warmer in the basement than it is upstairs, and I'm a little concerned about that.
We have crickets in the basement. That happens every few years, but it's been long enough that Cordelia didn't recognize the sound and made Scott search the basement for other creatures, just in case.
I asked my primary care doctor if I could get a referral to a nutritionist who collaborates with hand OT people to figure out feasible food options for people with hand issues, digestive issues, fatigue issues, and blood sugar issues. She tells me that there's nobody like that in the UMHS which doesn't entirely surprise me but is very frustrating. I can't possibly be the only person with my sort of intersecting issues.
