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Mar. 5th, 2021 02:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI had my annual eye exam Wednesday. I left two hours ahead of the appointment and walked. I'm still in a lot of pain from doing that. I stopped twice on the way. I think I needed a third stop, but there wasn't another place with a bench along any of the routes. Also, the first bench was a two block detour (one to the park and one back). The second bench was only a football field or two from the clinic.
It took less time for me to get there than I'd allowed, but that was a lot better than me having been wrong the other way. The weather was reasonable for it, too. The park where I stopped first still had a layer of ice around all of the benches (all of them were in the shade), but it was warm enough that nothing in direct sun still had snow or ice.
I waited for Scott to be able to pick me up afterward. He was delayed in leaving work by one of the machines breaking down, but the 2nd shift supervisor told him he was okay to leave when he mentioned that I was waiting. This is a major change from years past when nobody would have cared about how long I waited as long as Scott got the machine fixed, so Scott hadn't thought to ask.
I was stuck until he got there. There was zero chance that I'd manage to walk all the way home. My eyes had been dilated, and my calves, knees, and hip flexors weren't up to moving me that far.
I ended up going to bed a couple of hours early. I hobbled around all of Thursday (for me, it's still technically Thursday because I haven't been to bed yet). Some of the muscles hurt more when I get up and walk, and others hurt less. Heat is helpful, and I'd love to soak, but I also don't think I could get out of the tub again. I didn't even dare shower.
We ordered delivery from Panera. That was really the only meal I had today because I couldn't handle thinking about food while I was trying move. I had to know exactly what I was after when I went into the kitchen or I'd come back with nothing.
I risked lettuce on my sandwich and found that, at this point, even the very flat stuff is a reflux trigger. It's not a terrible level of reflux, but the threshold of 'too unpleasant for lettuce to be worth it' is... low.
I'm very relieved that next week's gastroenterology appointment will be a video visit. The clinic called while I was waiting for Scott after my eye exam to request that I switch from in person to video. I was glad because it saved m from having to call and ask them for that. The gastroenterology clinic is further away than the eye clinic. There's no way I could walk to that appointment, so I'd have had to schedule the A-Ride (which I should have done for the eye exam). The sleep clinic appointment the week after that was already set to be a video appointment.
It took less time for me to get there than I'd allowed, but that was a lot better than me having been wrong the other way. The weather was reasonable for it, too. The park where I stopped first still had a layer of ice around all of the benches (all of them were in the shade), but it was warm enough that nothing in direct sun still had snow or ice.
I waited for Scott to be able to pick me up afterward. He was delayed in leaving work by one of the machines breaking down, but the 2nd shift supervisor told him he was okay to leave when he mentioned that I was waiting. This is a major change from years past when nobody would have cared about how long I waited as long as Scott got the machine fixed, so Scott hadn't thought to ask.
I was stuck until he got there. There was zero chance that I'd manage to walk all the way home. My eyes had been dilated, and my calves, knees, and hip flexors weren't up to moving me that far.
I ended up going to bed a couple of hours early. I hobbled around all of Thursday (for me, it's still technically Thursday because I haven't been to bed yet). Some of the muscles hurt more when I get up and walk, and others hurt less. Heat is helpful, and I'd love to soak, but I also don't think I could get out of the tub again. I didn't even dare shower.
We ordered delivery from Panera. That was really the only meal I had today because I couldn't handle thinking about food while I was trying move. I had to know exactly what I was after when I went into the kitchen or I'd come back with nothing.
I risked lettuce on my sandwich and found that, at this point, even the very flat stuff is a reflux trigger. It's not a terrible level of reflux, but the threshold of 'too unpleasant for lettuce to be worth it' is... low.
I'm very relieved that next week's gastroenterology appointment will be a video visit. The clinic called while I was waiting for Scott after my eye exam to request that I switch from in person to video. I was glad because it saved m from having to call and ask them for that. The gastroenterology clinic is further away than the eye clinic. There's no way I could walk to that appointment, so I'd have had to schedule the A-Ride (which I should have done for the eye exam). The sleep clinic appointment the week after that was already set to be a video appointment.
