Done Since 2019-04-28

[mdlbear]

Colleen is out of the hospital and in rehab, as of Monday evening. (It was going to be Sunday afternoon, but there was a series of delays. Amusing in retrospect, but very nerve-wracking at the time.) Hopefully she'll be strong enough to get to at least one day of RainbowCon next weekend; probably Sunday.

I'm still worried -- the next infection is only a matter of time. And still processing stuff, I guess. Past time to talk about EOL planning, so I'm glad we've at least started.

Between visits to Colleen and trying to get back into finishing up $GIG, I haven't gotten a whole lot else done.

Notes & links:

0427Su
  U Up 6am; S=6:57;
  = Hospitalists: Zina D. Hajduczok MD, FACC, Rosa Rangel MD
    Christine Wiese ARNP, Dean Wang ARNP, Ph.D — WhidbeyHealth ARNPs
  : 11:15 PT (Emily) 10 reps each ankle, knee.  Standing.
  : Cleared for discharge to rehab; cabulance will be here ~5pm.  Sooner is good; she'll
    get better and more effective PT there.
    -> but she was scheduled to go to Prestige in Burlington!  Social worker screwed up.
       % very glad I was here to throw a wrench into that plan
    -> it'll be Edmonds; possibly tomorrow if they can't get staff together today
  * Actually got some work done on $GIG while sitting with C (who was mostly asleep)

0428Mo
  * up 6am; S=6:01; 
  * bring dresses, slippers
  * pick up C's prescriptions at Rite Aid
  * at hospital ~9am; had breakfast.  In room 9:30.
  @ Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings? - Nautilus - Pocket
    reading fiction that talks about mental states correlates with ability to model them.
    " a clear link between people’s mentalizing skills and the books on their
      nightstands. In a study led by Raymond Mar, voracious readers of fiction were better
      than lighter consumers of fiction at making nuanced social judgments based on
      limited information—for example, deciphering complex emotions by looking at
      photographs of people’s eyes, and using subtle cues in videos of social interactions
      (such as guessing who was the child of the two adults in the video based on body
      language, tone of voice, and other nonverbal information).3 Heavy readers of
      expository nonfiction showed the opposite pattern, performing worse than lighter
      readers of nonfiction. Other research, using similar tests, has found a specific
      advantage for reading literary fiction4 compared with popular genre fiction, or for
      romance fiction5 over science fiction. "
    % so does this explain my alexithymia and inability to read people?  Possibly; not
      clear which is cause and which is effect.
  * pack room.  4 bags plus the scooter cape
  ~ 11:30 leave for Prestige Edmonds -> Prestige wants to have her potassium higher.  So
    who knows.  labs at 13:00
    -> they didn't have KCl on her med list.  Don't they talk to Freeland? *sigh*
    -> 3:30 discharge.  Carla came by around 2.
       = end of life care, for when we need it:  Enso House in Freeland
    ~ go over prescriptions (RiteAid) with Dr. H -> didn't show up
    * put electronics in bag with spotted cat
  * mail L's package
  * pick up another prescription at RiteAid -- potassium citrate
  : My tax refund was deposited 4/17.  I should visit my bank's website more often.
  $ AMZN stock was transferred 2018-04-26, so can be treated as capital gains if sold
  * print several copies of med list

0430Tu
  * up 5:55; S=6:41; shower
  * make cat boarding reservations for RC 0510Fr - 0513Mo (3 nights) hours 8:30-5pm
  * need vet records for Desti - can email to Bayview Pet Resort
    FVRCP and rabies within the last 3 years
  & snagged a cheeseburger and a cup of trail mix on the ferry.  Ate the burger.
  * Arrived at Prestige a little before noon
    -> took them an hour to answer her request to get changed.  :P
    -> Tried standing up.  Didn't make it; the two women from PT were small; they may not
       have been able to provide enough boost.  But C was also very frustrated and
       fearful.  And she had no PT yesterday, and only the one session the day before.
    -> this was the PT _assessment_; she'll start actual therapy tomorrow.
    -> I had to fill in a lot of the gaps; C either didn't or couldn't.  Worrisome.
  @ Librem One by Purism - (Purism Launches Librem One, a Suite of Privacy-Protecting, No-Track, No-Ad Apps and
    Services | Linux Journal) 

0501We
  * up 6ish; W=202.6, S=6:00;
  * $GIG: split 08, remove 10 (distribute into 02, 03, etc.), update example.
    edit the "rescue" commit to something more descriptive; push -f to s.net
  ~ visit C
    -> forgot that V was coming down today, so both of us are visiting C, and I end up
       doing it 4 days in a row.  Foo.  It was the "see you Friday" that did it
    -> C stood up 10 times this morning with PT.  Feeling accomplished and looking happy
  % right knee complaining - felt a twinge earlier in the day
  % restless and uncomfortable
  : sold my first album on Bandcamp.  $5.95 net out of 7.00 total
  * left Prestige ~4:15, which got me a drive home with no ferry backup and the sun high
    enough not to be in my eyes.
  @ push current state of $GIG to client.  PR merged.

0502Th
  & Awake 3ish; dozed off ~4:30
  * up 6ish; S=5h; shower
  @ dive into 
    Health | WashingtonLawHelp.org | Free legal help for Washingtonians.
    -> pretty much all the family's resources are in my name; there may be options for C
  % weakish and slightly dizzy on the ferry.  combination of postural hypotension and low
    blood sugar, maybe.  Mildly worrisome.
  * visit C -> arrive 11:46.
  % 2pm still feeling a little off; aspirin and tums
  
0503Fr
  * up 6ish; W=204.2, S=6:17; shower
  @ Dooce.com’s Heather Armstrong was the “queen of the mommy bloggers.” Then her life
    fell apart. - Vox (ff)
  * visit C with N and V.
  * V will probably take Saturday as well. Confirm
  : C spent several hours in the wheelchair; needed the standing lift to transfer, but yay
  * care conference around 2pm useful
    Leanne (therapy), Tawnya Shumway (social services)
  @ A Conspiracy To Kill IE6 (siderea | So it's the Pope you write to to have someone beatified?)
  @ Searching the Archive of our Own: the Usefulness of the Tagging Structure
  & WU rent money to Chaos -> another nightmare.  After exhausting ff, chrome, and the
    phone, finally went to Walgreens, where I managed to send it after many tries and lots
    of help from the photo clerk, who I tried hard not to snap at.  SHEESH.
  % the combination of the WU hassle, text from N, call from T'
  $ T' 5.5hrs @ 28/h  Plus 2.5 from last week -> 8 total = $224 -> check cut
  @ Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired AGAIN, apparently.
    Firefox add-ons disabled en masse after Mozilla certificate issue
     bug report

0504Sa Star Wars Day
  * up 6ish; W=203.4, S=6:22;
  : Mozilla rolling out a fix via the "studies" system.  Will no doubt take a while.
    Update Regarding Add-ons in Firefox | Mozilla Add-ons Blog
    -> about:studies to get status;
       look for hotfix-update-xpi-signing-intermediate-bug-1548973
  @ posted: mdlbear | Armagadd-on 2.0, computer-curmudgeon | Armagadd-on 2.0 Took about an hour:
    322e68f4 (HEAD -> master) posted 2019/05/04--mozilla-armagadd-on.html
    32a2f3e7 Journals: started entry 2019/05/04--mozilla-armagadd-on.html
    fed1fa9 (HEAD -> master) posted _posts/2019-05-04-mozilla-armagadd-on.html
  @ Package management in git for windows? - Stack Overflow 
  : V down at Prestige with C
  * pack easter candy, sweet tea, and a couple of ices for tomorrow
  * Patreon's new pricing model starts Monday; launched today to lock in founders' rates
    -> launched.  Become a Patron! (button image and JS trimmed)
  * cooked the salmon (from the Goose last night).  There was, in fact, enough for
    everyone with a little left over for breakfast and crumbs for the cats.
  * How an Uber-Geeky Text Mode in a 40-Year-Old Editor Saved My Novel (2019-04-22 Emacs news)

Comments

[quadriviummuse]

I'm glad to read Colleen is feeling better and out of the hospital! *Hugs* to her and you!

Do you do your raw notes on paper and type them later or do you use an app?

--Mary

[mdlbear]

>> Do you do your raw notes on paper and type them later or do you use an app?<<

Neither, actually. I keep them in a plain text file using Emacs. There's a more detailed write-up of the format and process at mdlbear | How to.do it.

ETA: I usually do it on my laptop, which is small and light enough that I can take it most places. When I can't, or I forget it, I use my phone and either email or Google Docs and then merge it into to.do when I get home.

The phone's UI is horrible compared to a real keyboard and a good text editor.

[madfilkentist]

That's encouraging.

Everything is a matter of time, for all of us. We do what we can with the time we have.

[jtthomas]

Yay for improvements. Also, that album is getting me through finals week, and it is the laugh I needed.

[mdlbear]

Thanks, and you're welcome. I should record more, shouldn't I?

[jtthomas]

Oh gosh yes please. More recordings would be deLIGHTful.

[jesse_the_k]

Hooray for C in rehab. Whatever physical benefits the hospital provide, it's so demoralizing mentally.

Also, hooray for you banging out that informative post in the middle of chaos!

[mdlbear]

Thanks! Hospitals are great for wat they do, but they don't do PT very well. The food is better in the rehab place, too.

I haven't been doing enough expository writing; that post was a nice break.

[acelightning]

I'm very, very happy to hear how well Colleen is doing! (And I know how frustrated she must be when she finds that she can't do more!) Picture me waving my cane (with its gaudy tassel) at her like a cheerleader waving pompoms :-)

The Firefox kerfuffle didn't affect SeaMonkey, which supposedly uses a lot of Firefox's internal workings. I really love SeaMonkey - it's really Netscape for the third millennium.