mdlbear | Done Since 2024-03-24 (Reply)

A lot of anxiety this last week, and some good grieving, but on the whole not bad. It feels indescribably odd to be saying that.

It's also been a busy week, including E's birthday and my first three radiation treatments. Also, my first s4s post since last December, and N's first four posts in GoingSideways.blog since the end of 2022. (I posted one, titled "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?", a week ago last Friday to kick things off and sort of apologise for how long the gap has been.) And, belatedly as usual, started working on my taxes.

Also, today is the International Transgender Day of Visibility. (\waves. I'm not sure transnonbinary by virtue of hormone treatments for prostate cancer counts, but I'm trying to be inclusive.)

Notes & links:
0324Su
& awake 4:30ish; cold
* up 6am; S=7:21; exercises, Dutch
% comfortable and warm; stayed in bed half an hour with Tisha
* abiraterone 06:31; rest 07:32; 1 dragon tumbler (400ml) water
% 08:24 finish second dragon tumbler; start coffee
& forward email from PNW Apostille to N and G;
@ ǝlqɯnɹ uoɯᴉS: "Is this root beer? Six pack of SUDO lager" - Aus.Social
@ PVE52 Residential Elevator | Wheelchair Accessible Lift For Homes
@ PiDP-10
* 15min: dishes.
% third dragon tumbler. Maybe fourth.
& walk: dayton+90th 18:25: w=0.9mi, s=2567, 17hp, 30min, 23mm
% fourth or fifth dragon tumbler, finished sometime before dinner. 5 would be 2 litres
* need paper bags for recycling in Lair
* finished The Other Significant Others by Rhaina Cohen
% go out to Lair to fetch litter box liners because they ran out in the house. Felt
incredibly strange not carrying Bronx with me. (He's spending nights in the house
because Cricket's person, m, is traveling and Cricket can't stand sleeping alone.)
% start another tumbler of water, but don't expect to drink more than half before bed
* reply to PNW Apostille with link to NYC info
https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-01020
https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-01012
https://dos.ny.gov/apostille-or-certificate-authentication
" For New York City records, other than divorce certificates, please contact the New
York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene or the New York City Marriage
Bureau. The records must then be certified by the New York County Clerk’s
Office. For NYC birth and death certificates, when ordering your record you will
also need to request a “Letter of Exemplification.” "
The city comprises five boroughs, each of which is coextensive with a respective county
* count remaining abiraterone tabs -- 27. 31 counting tomorrow's in the sorter

0325Mo E's birthday * litter boxen
& awake 3ish;
& awake 6:30 with alarm; cat; bed exercises
* up 7:05; S=7:18, BP=133/79, P=71, W=194.8; exercises, Dutch
* abiraterone 7:05; rest 08:22; first dragon tumbler (also 500ml coffee)
* send happy birthday message to E -* fb
% second dragon tumbler of water 09:08
@ The Last Train - YouTube Lyric
% made me cry. In a good way, I think. damn!
: mentioned in this s4s post on 2019-01-05
@ Shoreline Area News: Central Market rebranding as Town and Country Market
* Working on The Coast Starlight - GoingSideways.blog
% 12:18 third dragon tumbler
@ Taking care - The Oatmeal
based on Taking Care, a poem written by Callista Buchen.
* call FredHutch pharmacy to refill abiraterone - 206-606-6500 (refill 3/31)
8 days worth left in the bottle, meaning it will last until a week from Tuesday.
-> Will be here Wednesday. gave G a heads-up in case I'm out
-> should have called before 2 for next-day delivery.
% fourth tumbler of water somewhere in here. I'm not doing a very good job of tracking
Should compactify and put water intake all on one line.
* 4ish out to the Lair with Bronx
& purchased many books by JRRT on kindle because they were on sale cheap
& had to turn down an invitation to go eclipse-viewing in New York with Rick W.
: Ticia sat on my lap for a while in bed. Also see below:

0326Tu
& awake 5:30ish -- Ticia was sleeping on my chest. Don't remember her doing that before
% bed felt damp when I woke up, but not when I went back and patted it
* up: 6:30; S=6:59, W=193.2 BP=130/83, P=72; exercises, Dutch
% the tegaderm patch has vanished somehow, and with it all of the markings on L hip
* 06:54 abiraterone; 07:58 rest of am
% H2O: 07:59 08:40c 08:59 ?missed? 19:42 10ish
# H2O: no unit: 400ml of H2O (dragon tumbler), c: coffee, t: tea, st: sleepytime tea
# all times are when the container is finished. See legend.done
@ Starsinger: Leslie Fish fan recordings | Prometheus Music
* 10am - 11:30 Memory Keepers grief support group
* start on taxes
* set up account on USB pension portal (takes over Ricoh pension from BNY)
@ Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse - Wikipedia rabbit hole about bridges

0327We * litter boxen
& awake 3:30ish
* up 7am; S=6:56;
* H2O 7:40ish 08:31 2pm (in uw) 4ish 9pm (tea+half a tumbler) no coffee today
* abiraterone 07:03; rest 08:05
& 08:54 miralax, senna
@ GS: Oakland and the Zephyr
* abiraterone should arrive by 12pm
* fleet enema 3 hours before 2pm = 11am
& stop at Bartell for liquid glycerine suppositories. I'm out.
* leave 1pm for 1:45 checkin for 2pm radiation therapy at montlake
-> follow "yellow brick road"; change into gowns back-opening first; wait.
-> liquid glycerin supp. no shit. So..... shit.
-> apparently my bladder and bowels are just fine. ?! okay then.
* 2:30 On Treatment Visit - Dr. Liao -> more like 3pm, after treatment
-> nurse: Laura -> avoid foods that cause gas.
-> Need bowel movement every day, so use miralax
% 17:17 miralax
* 15min: dishes
% back pain -> heat
: Tom Digby died around 6pm. Another of the great old weird ones gone.
@ A look at search engines with their own indexes - Seirdy one to come back to!
% feeling distinctly out-of-it. Probably nothing to do with the radiation treatment but
maybe the prep.
% absolutely crashed at around 9pm

0328Th
& awake midnightish; 4:30??? not tracking
* up 7am;
* 07:09 abiraterone; 08:09 rest of am drugs
* H2O 7:40 08:49 9:30 11ish:cup 14:18 15:15:mocha 22:53
* 8:30 fleet enema -> no shit; clear liquid. Eeeek!; 10:01 liquid glycerin, same
@ Linear particle accelerator - Wikipedia
@ Radiation therapy - Volumetric_modulated_arc_therapy_(VMAT) - Wikipedia
@ Multileaf collimator
@ Linear Accelerator Basics | Oncology Medical Physics
@ Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) | OncoLink
* travel light or skip backpack altogether; small blue duffel for pants.
-> surprisingly, it has enough room for sweatpants, pantsu, and coat. I win.
* 10:20 leave for 11:05 checkin for 11:20 radiation therapy at montlake
-> went very smoothly; apparently they didn;t see any problems.
-> the treatment itself only takes about 2 minutes.
-> back at 12:20, so total is 2 hours almost exactly.
% 14:29 sleepy. Lack of caffeine?
& walk: Monkey Grind. w=0.8mi, s=2083, 14hp, 24min. 12oz mocha. See above.
* 17g miralax 16:55
* 6:30 at RS Michaela S. Wynter - Pacific Northwest Apostille & Notary Services
-> turns out she's a Brit. She and G had a good conversation.
* cooking: fetuccini Alfredo
@ The Best Dry Mouth Toothpastes biotene

0329Fr * litter boxen
& awake 3:30ish
* up 7:22; S=7:17
* 07:24 abiraterone, 08:24 rest+fiber
* H2O: 08:25 08:47 09:33 noonish:c 18:01
* walk: end of block
* 10:10 leave for 10:55 checkin for 11:10 radiation therapy at montlake
@ Roll On Jamaica written by Al Parrish
mudcat.org: Lyr Req: Agnes on the Cowcatcher/Roll On Jamaica
HAPHAZARD HISTORY: Lady Agnes MacDonald’s train trip west - Williams Lake Tribune
@ Officials studied Baltimore bridge risks, but not cargo ship collision - WaPo
@ 2024 Hugo Award Finalists | Glasgow 2024
$ C $90 on AX to Union of Concerned Scientists
* 15:51 bronx out to Lair. Should finish a glass of water while I'm here
* 15min: SA: get nova:/mirror mounted again. required retrieving /etc/fstab from
backup; only restored the stanzas for /mirror. should probably add /media/backup
* 18:06 back to house with Bronx
@ The terror of reality was the true horror for H P Lovecraft | Aeon Essays
Apophatic theology - Wikipedia. Fascinating way of thinking.
" conventional atheism treats the existence of God as a predicate that can be denied
("God is nonexistent"), whereas negative theology denies that God has predicates "
% made about two servings of tofu fried rice, and made the mistake of eating both. So
feeling a trifle over-full.
* out to the Lair 21:58. Just want to dive into bed and cuddle Ticia. Instead I have
to do meds and teeth first.

0330Sa
& up 3:30ish; dry mouth -> water
* up 6:30; S=7:42, W=191.0, BP=117/73, P=75; exercises
* abiraterone 06:43; prednisone with rest of am drugs 07:50; fiber
* H2O: 08:17, 08:18c, 3:30ish??, 19:37, 21:30ish, 23:02,
& check AX balances because I didn't remember whether I'd paid this month. I had.
* walk: end of block
$ HW $182 on AX for 2TB Samsung 870EVO SSD (upgrade for sable)
* 15min: change bed. The sheets I washed last week have what look like oil stains;
possibly something at the bottom of the Ikea bag. Weird.
* 15min: laundry. 2 loads because sheets and towels
* 15min: dishes
@ Hospice Music for Tom - YouTube
Storeroom by Tom Digby - YouTube
* walk Phinney+90th; w=1.0mi, s=2733, 19hp, 26min, 32mm
@ The Rusty-spotted Cat Is a Teeny-tiny Wild Cat | HowStuffWorks
* s4s about The Last Train -- see Monday for relevant links. Also N's playlist
Also Roll On Jamaica (see Fr)
* 19:47 miralax and senna.
& Bronx out to the Lair with me -- don't quite know G's reasoning yet.
almost the first thing he did was gobble up some kibble and throw up
* remember to take the senna out of pm pills
% some dull pain on the lower right of my abdomen. gas? cramp? Not too severe