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09:37 pm
cjsmith
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IgeneX says:
Lyme disease.
Current Mood:  impressed
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09:38 am
cjsmith
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I am full of...
...technitium-99. (This is for a triphase bone scan.) The half life is six hours, so in a day I'll be back to normal background; in the meantime I shouldn't try to fly at a commercial airport.
Naturally this got me wondering about the medical supply of an isotope whose half life is six hours. El Camino Hospital probably has a moly cow. I get to go back for the bone portion of the scan in a couple of hours, so I'll ask.
I love asking medical people about things. Techs either love me or hate me. :-)
Current Mood:  amused
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09:45 am
cjsmith
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An evening off!
Yesterday I did the dutiful things I was supposed to do: I fought with Microsoft drivers at work, I paid some bills, I went to get a bone scan, I did my meds and the kitties' meds and and and...
By the time Rob got home I didn't have much energy or motivation to do anything else. He needed to study neutrinos / particle physics, but after teaching flight students all day, he was wiped too.
We were so bad.
WE TOOK THE EVENING OFF. Both of us.
We watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and I got sufficiently relaxed on red wine that we really should have stayed awake longer after the movie, if you catch my meaning, except that I was so tired that it just wasn't going to happen.
(Most annoying thing about that movie, aside from the bit about throwing cats against stone walls: they couldn't figure out how to end it. Guys, you were doing great up until the last scene. It's worse than the ending of Blazing Saddles, and that's saying something.)
Y'know what's the problem with taking the evening off? You get used to it. It's fun. Now I'm back fighting with Microsoft drivers, phoning insurance companies and medical imaging clinics, and just generally being good and dutiful and stuff. That's less fun.
Current Mood:  busy
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11:11 am
cjsmith
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Yet another tax scare resolved
Yesterday I got a nastygram from the Franchise Tax Board of California, saying that "recent adjustments to my account" (with no further explanation) meant that I owed them seventeen hundred dollars and that if I didn't pay by May 23 I was subject to stuff like property liens.
Lovely.
It did include a phone number, but when the phone lines get too backed up over there, they don't put you in the queue. They tell you to try again later.
Especially lovely.
So I've been trying every fifteen minutes, all morning. Apparently when the wait gets down to 35 minutes or so they allow you to stay on the phone. At least their hold music is energetic and fun.
It turns out that the bill went out before my check posted. (Oops.) And that there are lots and lots of people in this situation (oops) which is why if you're in this situation you can't call them (oops). The person on the phone apologized for the trouble.
Anyhow, California residents, if you get a nastygram like this, pull out your tax return and total up all the numbers you actually paid and the number the nastygram says you paid. If the difference is the check you sent, you might not need to have a heart attack just yet, and you can let yourself be cheered up by the hold music when you call.
I hate tax scares. Thanks, state government, for scaring me and for wiping out my morning.
Current Mood:  cynical
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09:54 am
cjsmith
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Vitamins, vitamins everywhere!
Why yes, I am a very pale woman who avoids sunlight because I burn so darn fast. I even work indoors all day. Why yes, I throw up when I eat fish and seafood. Why yes, I am mildly lactose-intolerant and do not drink a lot of milk.
I am now on 5000 IU of vitamin D per day, and after a couple of weeks, I'll want to maintain at 3000 IU/day.
Guess what vitamin D deficiency can cause. Guess. Remember all the agony I was going through with dietary sodium? Vitamin D deficiency can cause high blood pressure! Heh.
So now that's five little pills for D and one annoying injection of B12. There's hope that I can stop the B12 in a month or so... unless my feet spontaneously heal, in which case, bring on the needles.
Current Mood:  old
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09:23 am
cjsmith
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Much better day today.
Really, yesterday had improved quite a bit by lunch, but it still wasn't destined to be a good one. It had good spots, though, like... well, lunch! :-) I also got some real help from the technical support guys, completely unexpectedly, and I was surprised at the depth of my relief. I felt exhausted after that. I hadn't known how tightly I was wound until it stopped. Even the fact that fixing one problem just uncovered several more didn't stop me from feeling like an overcooked noodle all afternoon.
My crock pot soup wasn't ready for dinner, probably because I'd started with frozen ingredients. We had to sneak out of the house an alternate way because a cat was busy throwing up in a spot that made it inadvisable to open the door. Square dance calling went about as well as could be expected given that I was so exhausted. We're working Triple Lines/Waves a bit now that it's been added to C1.
Today, now... today has potential. The floor has been cleaned; the crock pot soup is in the fridge and in the freezer; I've had breakfast; the problems I get to attack at work are things I have NOT spent days fighting with; and to top it all off, it's Friday and I have the evening off. Things are looking up.
Current Mood:  awake
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10:09 am
cjsmith
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GRRR
I am in a seriously pissy mood.
It's one of those days when nothing is working right, I didn't get enough sleep, the people who are supposed to help with various things aren't helping at all, I may have to reinstall my operating system, and the sum total of my free time today is however long I sat in the bathroom this morning.
So: trapped in hideous mood. Please send links that are cute and/or funny. Then run away.
Current Mood:  enraged
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02:21 pm
cjsmith
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TMI
( about B12 injections )
At least I now know that I don't need any higher dose to give my body all the B12 it'll use. Whether I'm absorbing enough or not is a separate question.
Current Mood: amused
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01:06 pm
cjsmith
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Medical morning
This morning's agenda kept me hopping:
- Blood draw for Lyme disease test
- Doctor appointment with my GP, which earned me...
- Blood draw for vitamin D levels and a very detailed cholesterol panel
And guess what I did? Am I doing better or WHAT?
I
WATCHED.
A half hour later my blood pressure was still a touch lower than expected, so yeah, there are effects, but overall I'm getting so much better about needles and suchlike. (I do, however, have a new bruise inside each elbow.)
Current Mood: busy
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07:22 am
cjsmith
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B sting
Injecting myself is definitely getting easier.
First time, I had a lovely fuchsia splotch on my arm. The B12 goop is BRIGHT RED, and it never occurred to me that it could be seen as it perfuses through the tissue. That's finally mostly faded today. Second time, though, almost no splotch. I think I got it deeper in.
Napa today, I think.
Current Mood: awake
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05:02 pm
cjsmith
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Maker Faire
I saw ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) syren72 but did not see plymouth, and I heard someone (in a car?) call my name as I was heading toward the entrance but did not see who it was. xthread and crasch, I gots no clue. Never saw ya, and I couldn't possibly have heard my cell phone over the din.
Having skipped a year, I see a lot of contrast between this one and the first one. It's gone mainstream. There's cool stuff, don't get me wrong, but man oh MAN find parking before 10am.
I loved the cupcakes. Kids loved my scooter. I was sorely tempted by the marquetry club, but they meet exactly when I work. The hair on the enormous kneeling woman was fabulous, there was a rather spiffy Dance Dance Revolution-like SunSPOT demo, I entirely missed the battleship fight and the diet Coke and Mentos demo, and if I'd been by myself I might have spent way too much time in Swap-O-Rama-Rama. I was quite pleased to see EAA there; it didn't occur to me a couple years ago, but they're some of the world's ultimate makers. I wish I'd been willing to stay late enough to see some of the fire demos, but I have a houseguest coming.
I'm sure I'm forgetting TONS of stuff. It's hard to see everything when you're three and a half feet tall, two and a half feet wide, and can't go sideways or backwards. On the other hand, I'm not in pain, so there's the tradeoff.
Every year I see a few things that make me think "I could do that!" And every year I don't "do that". Am I busy, burned out, or just not much of a maker? I know I used to be more of one. I'm going to guess it's a little of all three.
Current Mood:  satisfied
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