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Old Nov 26, 2021, 03:27 AM
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I feel so sorry for my daughters boyfriend as he is allergic to cats and my cats run the house. He mus be taking antihistamines now because i havent heard him sneezing for a while.
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Endocrinology lab results appeared. Appointment is mid December.

Everything that is borderline or too low or too high - quite a number of results? So far ALL of them have fatigue as a result.
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Hugs, QM. Hopefully they're relatively easily treated. Is thyroid one, I'm guessing?
Bleep. I was carrying hot noodle soup when my hands either tremored or sudden muscle weakness. I tossed the bowl aside or it wouldn't just be a mild burn on my hand. Tripped the fuse box. The extension strip powering the stove, kettle and blender is probably screwed. Unplugged it from the main etc.

I can't get an earlier appointment with my endocrinologist. I tried etc.

My landlady is going to be so upset with me... I already triggered her horrendously with the terrible crisis that almost landed me inpatient. No crisis shelter etc, psych ER being crowded and not enough beds etc.

I'm feeling like my parents are right and the real me is useless, disgusting and pathetic. That moving out is a bad idea because I can't survive because I'm useless. That any friend of mine will get sick of me and I'll lose them.
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Old Nov 26, 2021, 04:55 AM
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I'm sorry you're experiencing this, QM. I really hope that your landlady is understanding. From everything I've read, it makes sense that these symptoms would emerge now that you are in a place of relative safety. Please try to be kind to yourself.
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Old Nov 26, 2021, 06:29 AM
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Hugs, QM. Accidents happen--I hope your landlady will be understanding. If it's just an extension cord/surge protector (not sure what you call them there, but I assume you mean the kind of the where you can plug in multiple cords, and then it plugs into the wall), those aren't expensive.
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Old Nov 26, 2021, 07:05 AM
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I'm sorry you're experiencing this, QM. I really hope that your landlady is understanding. From everything I've read, it makes sense that these symptoms would emerge now that you are in a place of relative safety. Please try to be kind to yourself.
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Hugs, QM. Accidents happen--I hope your landlady will be understanding. If it's just an extension cord/surge protector (not sure what you call them there, but I assume you mean the kind of the where you can plug in multiple cords, and then it plugs into the wall), those aren't expensive.
I don't know if she'll be understanding. I know I triggered her badly already.

The kettle plug, stove plug, night light plug, blender plug all were wet. Have to wait a day or two (after gentle drying with cloth) before it's safe to test.

Money is tight for her, she also has made some comments to her other friends about people who have more money and resources than her. Which include me.

Plus she's made some comments several times now, about me... As she's made many such comments about other survivors, I know those comments mean I'm not a "good" survivor in her eyes now.

I hope to fix some of my issues with a better diet. More iron etc.

2 abnormal thyroid test results contradict each other?

- HIGH TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone)
- HIGH free Thyroxine
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Old Nov 26, 2021, 12:27 PM
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Old Nov 26, 2021, 12:37 PM
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Well, I just got a text from L cancelling my session today because she's feeling a little under the weather. Hopefully it's just she had too much fun last night celebrating Thanksgiving and nothing more serious. She next to never cancels, and I don't want her to have to work when she's sick, so I can't really be anything but understanding about it.

But dang it, she took away one of my remaining termination sessions!!! And I am bummed. Maybe I should just start figuring out how to work through this on my own without her help. It's totally in the back of my mind what has happened to other people here where they thought they had x amount of time to wrap up but then the t pulled that rug out from under them. I guess we'll see what happens next week.

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Old Nov 26, 2021, 01:06 PM
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Looking for a new crochet project to keep my thoughts from running away with me. Found a pattern on ravelry for a stained glass hat. Pic to come when it's finished.
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Old Nov 26, 2021, 01:21 PM
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Well, I just got a text from L cancelling my session today because she's feeling a little under the weather. Hopefully it's just she had too much fun last night celebrating Thanksgiving and nothing more serious. She next to never cancels, and I don't want her to have to work when she's sick, so I can't really be anything but understanding about it.

But dang it, she took away one of my remaining termination sessions!!! And I am bummed. Maybe I should just start figuring out how to work through this on my own without her help. It's totally in the back of my mind what has happened to other people here where they thought they had x amount of time to wrap up but then the t pulled that rug out from under them. I guess we'll see what happens next week.

I'm really sorry, Artie. I would say, could you just add on another session, but I know you liked the idea of ending on Dec. 31.
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Old Nov 26, 2021, 01:27 PM
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I'm really sorry, Artie. I would say, could you just add on another session, but I know you liked the idea of ending on Dec. 31.

Thanks, LT. Maybe if I still want 6 more total we can just schedule twice in one week or something I dunno.

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Old Nov 26, 2021, 02:10 PM
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Thanks, LT. Maybe if I still want 6 more total we can just schedule twice in one week or something I dunno.
Or, you could pretend to be Orthodox--January 14 is Orthodox New Year, January 7 Orthodox Christmas.

January 6 is the Epiphany, a time of revelation and putting away Christmas decorations (=old life).
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Old Nov 26, 2021, 03:24 PM
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Or, you could pretend to be Orthodox--January 14 is Orthodox New Year, January 7 Orthodox Christmas.

January 6 is the Epiphany, a time of revelation and putting away Christmas decorations (=old life).
The Epiphany would be the perfect time to have an epiphany!
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Old Nov 26, 2021, 04:26 PM
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Or, you could pretend to be Orthodox--January 14 is Orthodox New Year, January 7 Orthodox Christmas.

January 6 is the Epiphany, a time of revelation and putting away Christmas decorations (=old life).
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The Epiphany would be the perfect time to have an epiphany!

Something to think about for sure!! Thanks @@.
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Old Nov 26, 2021, 04:29 PM
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The stained glass hat pattern is a bust. Not working at all. Found a different pattern for a puff stitch slouch hat, that I'm working on now, that seems to be working just fine. Taking a break to eat lunch. Pic later today!
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Old Nov 26, 2021, 05:29 PM
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D got her second shot today, which is good (and she handled it really well). But now there's news of a new "variant of concern." And I'm really struggling to focus on the positives of D being vaccinated vs. thinking maybe it's all completely futile (including the booster I'll be getting Monday), if it turns out this variant can get around immunity... Like, can't we just have some time to celebrate a victory and some relief and a sense of maybe returning to semi-normal for a brief while before the next thing hits?
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D got her second shot today, which is good (and she handled it really well). But now there's news of a new "variant of concern." And I'm really struggling to focus on the positives of D being vaccinated vs. thinking maybe it's all completely futile (including the booster I'll be getting Monday), if it turns out this variant can get around immunity... Like, can't we just have some time to celebrate a victory and some relief and a sense of maybe returning to semi-normal for a brief while before the next thing hits?

Hugs, LT. I was feeling something similar last night - a bunch of doomsday thoughts tumbling over each other in my head. As soon as it was daylight though I was able to battle back the thoughts thankfully, and was back to feeling hopeful again before L texted to cancel.


Now I'm just worried that she has covid again...


Back to my hat, so I can not think about anything but my crocheting!
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Old Nov 26, 2021, 06:35 PM
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Hugs back, Artie. Sorry you're also dealing with some doomsday thoughts... I hope that L just has some other illness (there are plenty going around) or ate something that didn't agree with her. I know you're in a weird place with her now--but could you maybe email her in a couple days to say you hope she's feeling better? Assuming she is, that could potentially give you some reassurance. But I'd also understand your not wanting to check in (I feel like I was really annoying Dr. T when he got back from his trip, had some symptoms, and worried he had Covid, but he seemed fine and understanding about it).

But perhaps best to focus on the hat! I need to find other things to focus on...I feel I should go back to painting (and have discussed it with Dr. T--he's greatly in favor of it), but it just seems like so much effort to get all the materials out, to know I'll likely get disrupted by D (she doesn't go to bed much earlier than me), to know I'll have to clean it all up, etc. I suppose I could go back to working on my therapy memoir. It came up recently with Dr. T that I hadn't been working on it, and he said he was disappointed because he was looking forward to seeing his name in the acknowledgments.

Maybe I should try to learn to crochet? I've also thought about drawing, which doesn't require setup and cleanup. Or maybe going back to poetry?
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D got her second shot today, which is good (and she handled it really well). But now there's news of a new "variant of concern." And I'm really struggling to focus on the positives of D being vaccinated vs. thinking maybe it's all completely futile (including the booster I'll be getting Monday), if it turns out this variant can get around immunity... Like, can't we just have some time to celebrate a victory and some relief and a sense of maybe returning to semi-normal for a brief while before the next thing hits?
I think we're at the point where "normal" is what we make of it and it might have to be redefined. I feel pretty normal right now, except for 1) teaching rooms full of masked students and 2) getting called a ridiculous number of times for random COVID testing at my university (I'm up to 5 this semester, in a 15-week semester where they randomly call 28% of the campus population/week).

I'm not going to worry about the new variant yet. It was only found on Tuesday. It seems more transmissible so far, but that doesn't mean more lethal than the original COVID, and it's not yet known how well the vaccines work against it. No one seems seriously ill from the new one (yet), and the idea behind mRNA vaccines is that they can be adapted pretty easily, within months if need be.
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Hat is done! That was fun. See how curly my hair gets when it's short?
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Hat is done! That was fun. See how curly my hair gets when it's short?

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I think we're at the point where "normal" is what we make of it and it might have to be redefined. I feel pretty normal right now, except for 1) teaching rooms full of masked students and 2) getting called a ridiculous number of times for random COVID testing at my university (I'm up to 5 this semester, in a 15-week semester where they randomly call 28% of the campus population/week).

I'm not going to worry about the new variant yet. It was only found on Tuesday. It seems more transmissible so far, but that doesn't mean more lethal than the original COVID, and it's not yet known how well the vaccines work against it. No one seems seriously ill from the new one (yet), and the idea behind mRNA vaccines is that they can be adapted pretty easily, within months if need be.

I agree on the normal being what you make of it thing. I've already come to accept that Covid is likely not ever going to completely go away. And hopefully it will become more like the flu, where it is around seasonally and is dangerous for some people and unpleasant to catch, and maybe we have to get a vaccine every year, but there are hopefully better ways of treating it.

I'm hoping that even if the new one is more transmissible, the vaccines will still be generally effective in preventing hospitalization and death. And we also now have new antivirals heading for approval (though Merck just said theirs is less effective than they originally thought).

But it's still a case of, as I was just talking about with H, can't we just get a little break here, where D just got vaccinated, couldn't we have had a little bit of time to feel good about that before having to wonder what will happen with this new variant? (He's the one who said that, too.) I know we can choose to feel good about it because, as he also said, if nothing else, it's still protecting her from the other variants. And I'll try to do that (especially until we know more about how transmissible and deadly this variant truly is). But it's still just really discouraging and disheartening.
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Old Nov 26, 2021, 08:42 PM
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I'm hopeful that science will continue finding better ways of treating it, as like you LT I've finally accepted that it's never going away... I'm going to take melatonin tonight so I can hopefully sleep without waking up in the middle of the night and going all doomsday on h again. L tells me to stop reading so much covid news but how can I? I told her I can't just stick my head in the sand and pretend it's not a thing.
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If you have taken reasonable precautions, I think over worrying about it is a bit of a self indulgence. Which is fine if it is what you want to do -but I think sometimes it takes the focus away from other more real things. People die from stuff every day. I think the regular forms of dying are more likely for most people - heart disease, car accidents, falls in the bathroom (really-I represented a few traumatic brain injury people who fell in the bathroom), cancer, and the like - the usual suspects.
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Regarding Covid, well, there's only really four ways out:
1 we get into a situation like with measles, where the vaccien plus treatments make it a non-issue for most people
2 we get better treatment and prevention and don't have to worry about it anymore in a bit
3 we somehow manage to increase the amount of people in the medical field dramatically
4 we continue to struggle with measures and impacts for a while

I don't fully agree with worrying about it isn't focusing on 'a real thing' like cancer. I don't think I'd be likely to die from covid or even having to go to the hospital, I'm pretty young, my weight's fine, my nutrition is pretty good, I work out, I don't worry about myself... the thing I worry about when considering the risks is more like: this weekend I will meet 5 relatives that are almost 60, none of them are as rigid with precautions as I personally am, but since they are my closest relatives, I will most probably also not be as rigid with them. They are in a reasonably good category in case I manage to infect them, but they all work and have lots of contacts, including my grandma who is 80 and so on. Now, if somebody like her has to go to the hospital and take up a slot, by now there are so many people there only for that one illness and it's related risk factors, that somebody with cancer or that slips in the bathroom will get less decent care, if they have space for them at all. Instead of there being 20 patients with such issues, there's 20 more that the same amount of staff have to care for, increasing the issues of all the 'real things' like cancer, accidents and other heart disease.
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I am not saying covid is not real. Nor did I say that cancer is more real (I do think it is a more real concern for more people as a possible way to die - but we are all going to die from something at some point). My point was that focusing on something like covid and imagining that every little thing is covid or that people you are fond of are all going to keel over from it - is a convenient way of keeping one from focusing on other things in one's life that might be a more productive use of time and energy.
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