Done Since 2023-10-29
2023-11-05 06:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearI got to bed at some ridiculous hours, and lost a ridiculous amount of sleep, but not by filking. In fact, I pulled out (guitar)Plink and sang exactly once during the entire con, for one song (Ripple) at the closing jam. That's okay, actualy. I had some good conversations, and heard some great music, incuding a couple of songs that I teared up listening to.
I did get an extra hour of sleep last night from the daylight-to-standard time transition, and I damned-well needed it. I may say more about it next week. Most of my physical problems could be put down to Foley catheters, and the less said about those right now the better. There may be a rant about them in a future post. Also the male urinary tract in general.
I need to go back to using checklists for travel. I had a pretty good one several years (decades?) ago, but a lot has changed since then. (Apparently it was added to git in 2014 and hasn't been touched since then; presumably it was someplace else before that.)
Pain is tiring.
Notes & links:1029Su
* 00:30 start swapping bags; brush teeth
& awake 5:20; S=3.8;
% cold, hopefully metabolic rather than fever. some cath. pain -> lidocaine
: the hotel doe not have an extra blanket in the closet. Not impressed.
% headache -> 05:54 500mg acetaminophen (1 capsule)
* up 8am(alarm); I ought to get back into exercises
& ride Lyft with N to ER to deal with infected tooth. Back to con after making sure
she was in a room. 13:14 she's still there.
& snack in ConSuite followed by bag maintenance in the room, which I'd skipped out on
* Tail end of Deborah VanHeiningen's concert
* Jen's album release concert
* Bridges release concert -- tears on "Lullabye for a Weary World" and "I Will Remember"
* Closing Jam. Came in near the start of "Ripple". Realized that I probably wasn't
playing the right chords. Played anyway (Plink is quiet) and sang.
% back held up just long enough for me to get to the room and empty my bag. Pretty dark
-> probably shouldn't risk going back downstairs.
* Dutch
* Listening to "Lucy on the Line" on the Bridge album. I'm gonna choke up through this
whole album, aren't I?
@ Should you pick Novavax’s COVID-19 shot over mRNA options? | Science inconclusive
% 22:54 for a moment I thought Colleen was sleeping next door, not N. *sigh*
1030Mo
& awake 5:55; worried about politics, R
* up 6:15; S=5:34; bed exercises+squats
@ White House AI executive order adds safety requirements for next generation tech
@ Scientists find two ways that hurricanes rapidly intensify | ScienceDaily (ysabetwordsmith)
@ FDA warns consumers not to purchase or use certain eye drops from several major
brands due to risk of eye infection | FDA Systane is okay
" CVS Health, Leader (Cardinal Health), Rugby (Cardinal Health), Rite Aid,
Target Up & Up, Velocity Pharma "
* packed cane. Folded, it fits alongside Plink in her case, with the handle down
* 1pm checkout - G made the pharmacy run to get N's scrips from the hospital pharmacy
# returning: Alaska flt 345 Seat: 31B Class: O (Coach); 6:10 EDT; boarding 5:30
-> WiFi is broken on this plane. OTOH the ChargeASAP adapter plugs in. I have music
-> but it's too heavy and too wide; doesn't work with the seat power. Growf.
- did not bring Kind bars or anything else to eat, which was stupid of me; fortunately
there are free drinks and extra snacks in Premium, so I'll probably be okay. Also, N
isn't eating because of her tooth, so I'm eating her snacks too.
* 21:53 home.
% very shaky. Piss slightly cloudy
: N taking Lyft to the ER - neither of us bears is stable. -> back 7:30am: see below
% 23:53 splat. Unfortunately I am no longer able to walk into the room and fall over
1031Tu Halloween, Samhain eve
@ Samhain - Wikipedia
@ Halloween - Wikipedia
& awakened by texts from N.
* up 6:30ish; S=6:14; bed exercises,... Dutch (evening)
: 07:30 N coming home by Lyft
* 9am try to contact Magpie for cat assistance -> pick up ~10am; take back to M's after
* pick up cats by 11am;
-> Bronx was on the high shelf, and after m got him down and handed him to me he
jumped onto my shoulder. I may have bloodstains on my shirt, but it's purple so
they won't show, and I was planning to do laundry tonight anyway.
& KrispyKreme on the way back for m's breakfast and hazard pay
% back of my left hand hurts. -> diclofenac ointment
: Rachel - Nurse Navigator 206-606-5065. Normally they schedule an appointment with
medical, radiation, and urology oncologists all at once but the next available is
Dec. 14; she'll work on getting me scheduled with medical before then. Expect call.
@ What Is a Nurse Navigator and What Do They Do? (With Skills) | Indeed.com
" Many nurse navigators specialize in oncology to help people through the cancer
diagnosis process and schedule individualized care plans. "
% 6ish some leakage around catheter
* 15min: laundry
% 19:03 more diclofenac
@ A Brief History of Tricky Mathematical Tiling | Quanta Magazine
" Passkeys for PayPal require a device that runs at least iOS 16, macOS Ventura, or
Android 9. For web use, a _Safari or Chrome browser_ is required. " ... so, NOPE
@ Everyone Was Wrong About Why Cats Purr | WIRED
% lots of nasal congestion all day
* set alarms for tomorrow's am appointment (ready to leave by 8:20, so start at 5am)
1101We Samhain, Day of the Dead; * litter boxen
& awake 5:30
* up 6ish; S=7:49; cat cuddle; bed exercises (min); Dutch
@ Day of the Dead
* 8:20 leave for 8:45 checkin at Northwest
* 9am Urology - voiding test, cath removal
-> put in 210 ml, I got ~200 out, fairly quickly. So far so good
-> come back btw. 2 and 3 after drinking lots of water and testing the plumbing
@ People with autism less likely to succumb to bystander effect, research finds
@ Black 4.0 Is The New Ultrablack | Hackaday
@ Elon Musk’s X is sinking financially, one year after he bought Twitter - WaPo
@ ACLU: Why We’re Taking the Fight for Trans Youth Health Care to the Supreme Court
@ Idaho's first 'abortion trafficking' arrest
* 2-3pm back to urology to get bladder measured 15:08 -> 123ml
-> try double-voiding (a few minutes between tries)
@ Double voiding: Definition, additional techniques, and importance
@ Options for Men Who Have Trouble Urinating – Cleveland Clinic
" In general, your bladder should be emptied every two to three hours "
-> come back tomorrow if necessary
but used some of the positional techniques from the above articles. ]
@ What Cats’ Love of Boxes and Squares Can Tell Us About Their Visual Perception
" It is a truth universally acknowledged—at least by those of the feline
persuasion—that an empty box on the floor must be in want of a cat. "
~ 4pm house appraisal at RE -> s' and g" alerted.
% 19:29 eyedrops: R eye inside corner
* 20:54 bath -> 21:27. I miss hot baths, even though I rarely take them these days
: my old bathrobe is looking old and yellowed, and has acquired a few stains
* 22:12 back in Lair; litter and trash
1102Th
& awake 5:14; S=5:53;
* up 7:30; S=7:24; cat cuddle; minimal bed exercises
@ Latest Long Covid research update - by Christina Pagel
* back to the house around 10:25
* canned chili for lunch, because fiber.
% 15:15 phenazopyridine 199mg (AZO, 2 tabs), with water. 2 tablets 3/day with meals
@ How to Use Your Phone When Traveling Internationally - AFAR
* 15min: dishes - bowls and silverware, 1-hour cycle. ]
% 18:12 polyethylene glycol (miralax)
% 21:57 acetaminophen
& 22:30ish G drove me to the ER. Pain down to ~3.5-4 now;
% 22:54 starting to feel urge to urinate; pain up. 23:05 less of an urge.
-> 500ml in bladder (was 123ml yesterday morning)
-> didn't find any residual turds; enlarged prostate could feel like one, maybe.
-> freshly-installed foley
-> PEG laxative 1/day. If that doesn't work, go to 2/day. Stop if diarrhea
@ Enlarged prostate and constipation: What's the link?
" Constipation does not directly harm the prostate but may worsen BPH symptoms. If the
rectum is full, it may press on the bladder, causing urinary urgency, frequency, or
incontinence. "
-> and the foley I got in the ER is TOO SHORT. And now it's 02:17 and I'm still not
done cleaning the leg bag.
1103Fr * litter boxen (E')
* up 7:30; S=4:38; in bed until 8:30; minimal bed exercises;
@ One year of Mastodon – Lisa Melton
@ Starfish bodies are really just heads, new research says | CNN
@ If you give a mouse a sleepless night, he gets a dopamine rush : Short Wave : NPR
" What your parents didn't tell you about pulling an all-nighter? It might just ease
depression for several days. "
% 12:49 phenazopyridine 199mg
@ Thread: by @stacyfmitchell on Thread Reader: Amazon is in a world of legal hurt
" I just read the less-redacted version of the FTC’s monopoly lawsuit. Lots of
evidence of Amazon execs knowingly screwing consumers & killing competition, aware
of their own wrong-doing. "
* 2:30 leave (45min) for 3:15 checkin at UW Med Ctr. Montlake
* 3:15 checkin for 3:30 PET/CT scan UW Med Ctr Montlake 1959 NW Pacific St
~2 hours, so out ~5:30. Most of the time was sitting around.
2nd floor. Take Pacific elevators down to fl 2, turn R. Room CC-201
PET/CT Ga-68 Gozetotide PSMA Scan: How to prepare and what to expect ...
Gallium (68Ga) gozetotide PET-CT
" 16:06 waiting for an hour until the right parts of me start glowing. "
-> lyft home. now heading up to RE soon.
% 18:19 phenazopyridine 199mg
% damned catheter hurts. Not a lot, but enough to make me not want to walk with it
having occasional bladder? spasms.
@ Bladder Spasms... " are a common and sometimes distressing complication of
catheter usage." sometimes??!
% 22:40 fell asleep in my chair. Cold
1104Sa
& awake 2:40; in chair. Ugh.
& awake 7:30; bed exercises (+10 situps)
* up 8ish; S=3:45, total S=~6:45; shower
% 200ml in bag, so not properly hydrated. Still constipated.
@ Bladder Pressure: Identification, Treatment, and More
Interstitial cystitis
@ Overactive bladder
@ Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome - Wikipedia
@ Bury the Lede or Bury the Lead: Which is Right? | Merriam-Webster
" The spelling of lede is allegedly so as to not confuse it with lead (/led/) which
referred to the strip of metal that would separate lines of type. "
@ Executive Function Theft – Hedgehog Librarian (ysabetwordsmith)
* several sorting sessions - two or three upstairs and one (about 8pm) in the garage
-> good progress
? WTF to do with the box of old letters (from Stanford before Colleen, mostly)
and some poetry I don't remember writing, Putnam exam results, ...
~ SL: luggage tags -> found 3 at RE, so don't need
% chronic pain is tiring
* 15min: laundry
% 22:45 sleepy; craving chips, too.
: note: the adhesive tape I used on my leg left a gummy residue.
Alcolol didn't help much.
no subject
Date: 2023-11-07 06:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-11-10 03:31 pm (UTC)W was spell checking a long email he wrote during the convention and actually read about the lede versus lead spelling in “bury the lede.” (You mentioned that in your raw notes.)