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Old Mar 08, 2022, 04:14 AM
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Happy International Women's Day to all, even if you're not aware of it!

This morning is one of my husband's eye appointment days. They're always a pain...for both of us. People are still not permitted to wait inside with the patients. Only patients in masks in the waiting room. So outside I wait, either in my car, a cafe, or for a walk. I already took a long walk. There's probably an hour extra wait to go. He'd probably go alone for other types of appointments, but for his eye he needs me. At least it's not nearly as cold as last time, which was also super windy.

Yesterday I accidently took my evening meds in the morning again. What the heck?!?!? I wondered why I was so tired during the day. At night I decided to take them again, minus a little of the Seroquel XR dose. I slept well. I had to sleep because of this morning's appointment. I was sure to take my morning meds this morning. I'm not tired, but have a mild headache.

We might go to Prague next week or the one after. We'll likely drive as the train stations are packed with refugees from Ukraine. Czech Republic, like most other European countries, are supportive of them. Housing has been arranged on mass scale. On TV, they also showed how they've set up some schools for Ukrainian children. In big cities, they've found some Ukrainian teachers for them. In smaller areas where they'll be sent, they will learn the local language. That means Czech, here in Czech Republic. Yes, both are Slavic languages, but not so mutually intelligible as Czech and Slovak are. Ukrainian uses the Cyrillic writing system, like Russian. Czech, Slovak, Polish, and select other Slavic languages don't. They rather use a Roman type writing system, like English and Western and other Central European-based languages. I think this school idea is a good one. It likely helps normalize a situation for them that is otherwise so intensely stressful. Plus, the parents or other adults have a chance to do other important tasks, more easily. The Ukrainian kids who study Czech will likely progress much faster than this 50 year old Czech language student. On Czech news, they also said that 125+ Ukrainian school buildings have been mostly or fully destroyed.
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Dx: Bipolar type 1

Psych Medications:
* Tegretol XR (carbamazepine ER) 800 mg
* Lamictal (lamotrigine) 150 mg
* Seroquel XR (quetiapine ER) 500 mg

I also take meds for blood pressure, cholesterol, and tachycardia.

Last edited by Soupe du jour; Mar 08, 2022 at 05:07 AM.
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