Done Since 2019-07-07

Not a bad week. (I hesitate to say "a good week" mostly out of force of habit.) Colleen had the Home Health nurse replace her external plumbing, it seems to be helping. She's much stronger and happier -- almost back to where she was a year or two ago. I'll take it.

My back has been giving me trouble; also something around my right TMJ. What the fsck is up with that? (Non-techies should note that fsck is the name of the Unix file-system-check utility.)

I went through the exercise of flagging all of Colleen's major medical events, with dates, to make them easier to list with grep. (I'd gotten tired of repeating her medical history every time we went to a new doctor's office.) It was kind of appalling. In the last decade Colleen was hospitalized about a dozen times, we moved four times, I changed jobs three times (2 were layoffs), burned out, and retired. And Curio died. I've been Colleen's primary caregiver that entire time. And that's not counting the medical emergencies in N's half of the household.

I came to the realization that my main problem isn't anxiety or depression, it's stress. (N was surprised that I hadn't figured that out already; bears can be a little slow at times.) The next day I looked at a couple of lists of "the most stressful life events". Um... Okay, then.

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