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Sep. 2nd, 2016 11:21 amI woke up with a headache again this morning. This time, I tried Ativan first. It helped yesterday (I was hoping it wouldn’t, actually, much as I wanted the headache gone) and has helped today. The Comcast stuff is all I can think of that might have caused this, but two days of headaches after things are more or less resolved seems excessive. I’m still groggy and not quite all here. Food and caffeine have not helped, but some part of my brain is convinced that, if I eat the right thing, I’ll feel better. I suspect that a good dose of sugar would help, but I’m trying very, very hard not to do that.
I’m looking more at the FODMAP diet. Given my other restrictions, I think that I’d basically only be able to eat meat during the time I was doing the elimination diet. Maybe some potatoes and rice, but I need to be careful of those for blood sugar reasons. (I’m not willing to touch brown rice because of the arsenic issue.) And some lettuce, occasionally, I suppose, but that’s iffy on the GERD side. Our usual vegetables are green beans, green peas, various squashes, broccoli, and cauliflower which are all on the no go list. Lacking those, I’d go for Brussel sprouts or cabbage, but those are also not okay. So, maybe, collard greens? Those are pretty nasty without added flavorings that I can’t have.
Of course, there are things on the list that I know I’m fine with, but many of them are classed with other things I know aren’t good for me or that are only okay sometimes. My digestive system considers them different, but the diet considers them the same. I’d also be out of caffeine options because the diet says no to chai. I haven’t found another type of black tea that isn’t vile beyond what I’m willing to drink when I add stevia, and I can’t drink them unsweetened.
Those who do the FODMAP stuff— What do you do about prescriptions and toothpaste? The only prescription I’m sure would be a problem is actually my toothpaste (I haven’t tried to check anything else, but I take ten things daily and several others as needed). Fluoridex for sensitivity contains xylitol. There aren’t actually any other options for it (Gel-Kam may or may not have xylitol, but it’s not nearly as good for sensitivity), and I can’t do without. Three days, and I wouldn’t be able to eat or drink anything at all without pain.
I figured out the problem using Chrome on my phone. Basically, Chrome had decided that a bunch of urls would redirect to the Comcast sign in site permanently. I ended up having to delete pretty much all the presets I could find. I’m not sure which one actually did the job (the first three or four didn’t because I checked, but then I stopped checking).
We still don’t know what’s going on this weekend. I’m assuming we’ll be visiting with Scott’s family on Monday. The big uncertainty is when Scott will be able to do the shopping. I don’t know. Maybe I could try my mother’s suggestion of the bus to the store and then a cab home? Except our neighbor told us that she did that and cabbie wouldn’t let her put her groceries in the cab. I think she was using the A-Ride which is a shared ride thing for people with disabilities or who are over a certain age, so it might be that the cabbie felt he had to save the space for other riders. It would really suck to have a cab come to pick one up and have it not have room to stow your walker or your chair or whatever.
But, you know, people do need transportation with groceries. Groceries are pretty essential, and our local stores don’t do delivery. One will pull stuff and have it ready for pick up, but that still requires a car. It’s about twenty minutes from here to the nearest store by bus (well, there’s a faster bus, but it requires crossing a busy, five lane street without a convenient light when one gets to the store). Bringing groceries home on the bus is limited by what one can carry and keep on one’s lap (using the seat next to one is not allowed if the bus is anywhere near full) and by what will survive a long ride and walk in whatever the weather is. Given what I can carry, I’d have to make about eight trips to get our groceries, and I’d have to skip some stuff. I’d also have a choice of waiting for the bus that comes once every half an hour or taking the every fifteen minutes bus and then climbing a hill that leaves me breathless when I’m not carrying anything at all. And I could only do this before 6:00 on weekdays. Saturdays and evenings, the buses are less frequent. Sundays, the bus I want doesn’t go as far as the grocery store. It only does part of its normal route.
I cooked a chicken last night. We ended up with less in the way of leftovers than I expected we would, though, so I’ll have to find something else to cook before the pork shoulder I just brought up from the basement is thawed (it’s as big as my head. It will take several days).
I did less writing yesterday than I had hoped. It was mostly editing and moving things around with a handful of new paragraphs. Mostly, I’ve been going back through the really big thing I’m working on and assuming that I’m having my usual problem of not mentioning things that readers actually need to know because I think they’re in there already. I know that this is a huge problem that I have, and it’s a big reason why I like to have a beta reader who feels comfortable dealing with that sort of thing. That’s a good bit more work than SPaG, however. It’s just that that can be what saves a story.
Scott decided against getting a DVR because Comcast would charge us an extra $10 a month for it. I can live without it, but I will regret it because there are often things I want to watch that neither Scott nor Cordelia are interested in. Scott will put up with those, most of the time, unless they conflict with one of his shows. Cordelia won’t put up with it at all— She’ll complain and complain and complain which makes watching anything unpleasant. I wonder if our VCR could still record anything? I don’t think we own any tapes we could record on, though.
We also won’t be watching anything in HD because that was also an additional monthly fee. None of us actually notice the difference between SD and HD, so it seemed wasteful. Of course, we’re now discovering that on demand has some episodes that are only available in HD.
I haven’t had a chance to play around with the new remote and interface. I don’t like how the visual part of the interface looks when Scott’s been doing stuff with it. I have trouble figuring out what is what there. Also, Scott keeps using voice commands, and I don’t want to do that. I don’t know if that’s avoidable or not.
I’ve been poking around on Imzy (I’m the_rck over there, too). I’m not sure yet if I’ll stay because I’m having problems getting used to the interface. I don’t know. It has potential for interesting conversations. Possibly.
I’m looking more at the FODMAP diet. Given my other restrictions, I think that I’d basically only be able to eat meat during the time I was doing the elimination diet. Maybe some potatoes and rice, but I need to be careful of those for blood sugar reasons. (I’m not willing to touch brown rice because of the arsenic issue.) And some lettuce, occasionally, I suppose, but that’s iffy on the GERD side. Our usual vegetables are green beans, green peas, various squashes, broccoli, and cauliflower which are all on the no go list. Lacking those, I’d go for Brussel sprouts or cabbage, but those are also not okay. So, maybe, collard greens? Those are pretty nasty without added flavorings that I can’t have.
Of course, there are things on the list that I know I’m fine with, but many of them are classed with other things I know aren’t good for me or that are only okay sometimes. My digestive system considers them different, but the diet considers them the same. I’d also be out of caffeine options because the diet says no to chai. I haven’t found another type of black tea that isn’t vile beyond what I’m willing to drink when I add stevia, and I can’t drink them unsweetened.
Those who do the FODMAP stuff— What do you do about prescriptions and toothpaste? The only prescription I’m sure would be a problem is actually my toothpaste (I haven’t tried to check anything else, but I take ten things daily and several others as needed). Fluoridex for sensitivity contains xylitol. There aren’t actually any other options for it (Gel-Kam may or may not have xylitol, but it’s not nearly as good for sensitivity), and I can’t do without. Three days, and I wouldn’t be able to eat or drink anything at all without pain.
I figured out the problem using Chrome on my phone. Basically, Chrome had decided that a bunch of urls would redirect to the Comcast sign in site permanently. I ended up having to delete pretty much all the presets I could find. I’m not sure which one actually did the job (the first three or four didn’t because I checked, but then I stopped checking).
We still don’t know what’s going on this weekend. I’m assuming we’ll be visiting with Scott’s family on Monday. The big uncertainty is when Scott will be able to do the shopping. I don’t know. Maybe I could try my mother’s suggestion of the bus to the store and then a cab home? Except our neighbor told us that she did that and cabbie wouldn’t let her put her groceries in the cab. I think she was using the A-Ride which is a shared ride thing for people with disabilities or who are over a certain age, so it might be that the cabbie felt he had to save the space for other riders. It would really suck to have a cab come to pick one up and have it not have room to stow your walker or your chair or whatever.
But, you know, people do need transportation with groceries. Groceries are pretty essential, and our local stores don’t do delivery. One will pull stuff and have it ready for pick up, but that still requires a car. It’s about twenty minutes from here to the nearest store by bus (well, there’s a faster bus, but it requires crossing a busy, five lane street without a convenient light when one gets to the store). Bringing groceries home on the bus is limited by what one can carry and keep on one’s lap (using the seat next to one is not allowed if the bus is anywhere near full) and by what will survive a long ride and walk in whatever the weather is. Given what I can carry, I’d have to make about eight trips to get our groceries, and I’d have to skip some stuff. I’d also have a choice of waiting for the bus that comes once every half an hour or taking the every fifteen minutes bus and then climbing a hill that leaves me breathless when I’m not carrying anything at all. And I could only do this before 6:00 on weekdays. Saturdays and evenings, the buses are less frequent. Sundays, the bus I want doesn’t go as far as the grocery store. It only does part of its normal route.
I cooked a chicken last night. We ended up with less in the way of leftovers than I expected we would, though, so I’ll have to find something else to cook before the pork shoulder I just brought up from the basement is thawed (it’s as big as my head. It will take several days).
I did less writing yesterday than I had hoped. It was mostly editing and moving things around with a handful of new paragraphs. Mostly, I’ve been going back through the really big thing I’m working on and assuming that I’m having my usual problem of not mentioning things that readers actually need to know because I think they’re in there already. I know that this is a huge problem that I have, and it’s a big reason why I like to have a beta reader who feels comfortable dealing with that sort of thing. That’s a good bit more work than SPaG, however. It’s just that that can be what saves a story.
Scott decided against getting a DVR because Comcast would charge us an extra $10 a month for it. I can live without it, but I will regret it because there are often things I want to watch that neither Scott nor Cordelia are interested in. Scott will put up with those, most of the time, unless they conflict with one of his shows. Cordelia won’t put up with it at all— She’ll complain and complain and complain which makes watching anything unpleasant. I wonder if our VCR could still record anything? I don’t think we own any tapes we could record on, though.
We also won’t be watching anything in HD because that was also an additional monthly fee. None of us actually notice the difference between SD and HD, so it seemed wasteful. Of course, we’re now discovering that on demand has some episodes that are only available in HD.
I haven’t had a chance to play around with the new remote and interface. I don’t like how the visual part of the interface looks when Scott’s been doing stuff with it. I have trouble figuring out what is what there. Also, Scott keeps using voice commands, and I don’t want to do that. I don’t know if that’s avoidable or not.
I’ve been poking around on Imzy (I’m the_rck over there, too). I’m not sure yet if I’ll stay because I’m having problems getting used to the interface. I don’t know. It has potential for interesting conversations. Possibly.
