Happily, the GP visit was much more productive than the rheumatologist visit yesterday. I have pain meds and muscle relaxants. I feel much better, but I’m so woozy that I’m fairly useless. The nurse warned me not to take the…
Wednesday Warbles
Current Mood: 🙁sore
Rheumatologist Visit
sambear stayed home today to take me to my rheumatologist, because I’m in extreme pain. He’s so good to me. She wasn’t particularly, um, intelligible. In one breath she said she was afraid to give me more pain meds because…
Saturday Sleepies
sambear and curiousmay9 are out looking at houses with king_james. I didn’t go, because I’m in too much pain today and would probably have ended up just sitting in the car anyway. I’m curious as to what they saw, though.…
Yadda Yadda Yadda
shadowkatt has been coughing and not feeling well today—she’s sound asleep right now. I couldn’t sleep last night and don’t have any energy today as a result—with more pain, of course. And a cough. So despite the fact that there…
Naps & School
I’ve never been good at napping. Somehow, the idea of going to sleep in the middle of the day just seems too hedonistic for words. Yet I did promise sambear that I would rest some today, so I tried. Apparently,…
Sick People & Reading
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. –Marcus Valerius Martialis That, better than anything, describes my own policy of being aggressively honest—especially about things that other people might try to use against me. It’s not possible to…
Big Science Questions & Miscellany
The science section of yesterday’s Times addressed some of the “big questions” still facing science: http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2003/11/10/science/text/index.html dwivian is here game geeking with sambear. I tried to get up several hours before my meds released me from slumber, so I have…
Productive Day
Two articles I want sambear to read: New ADHD Medication Affects Sleep Less Melatonin Helps ADHD Insomnia He’s having a terrible time sleeping lately. I wonder where we could get reliably pure Melatonin around here? We’ve had an incredibly busy…
Geeky Fun/School/Health Stuff
I am so geeky. I actually spent time this morning writing down stuff about the government of the country one of my D&D characters has found herself queen of. I mean, heck, you’re starting a whole new place essentially from…