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[ysobel]

This ... has not been the best week.

Not a great couple of weeks really. Went from massive heat wave (many days over 100 with forecast for weeks thereof), then random thunderstorm, then the wildfires have been making the air shitty. I'm not in immediate danger firewise but hazy orange air is never fun. At least I wasn't going anywhere anyway.

Then Monday happened, and fuck Monday. Three aides called out (Monday afternoon's because vomiting, Monday+Tuesday night's because secondhand contact with a covid case, Tuesday+Wednesday morning's because of a sprain) and they were all justifiable reasons but three at the same time sucks. Luckily I have six in rotation, so I wasn't stranded, but. Then my commode chair -- which is a fancy shmancy thing that can tilt, so I can tilt it back to lower in from the sling and then tilt forward to pee, though obviously I'm not personally doing the tilting -- got extremely reluctant to tilt. It had been cranky for maybe a week so I'd called NuMotion (grrr) and their first available tech in the area was sept 16, but Monday it got to the point where it took two people to get it upright, and then Tuesday it just stopped tilting entirely

(luckily my dad was available to take it in to them to get it looked at, and they got it temporarily working plus ordered a bunch of new parts, but there were a couple of toileting sessions that required, erm, creativity)

And also I am possibly getting a UTI. Well, probably. Suspicious odor, plus yesterday and today there's a mild ache when my bladder is empty. No burning, so either it's more bladder than ut, or one of the many mysterious fucked-up-ednesses of my urethra includes scarring or something that makes it less sensitive, idk. I'm downing cranberry and pretending that's enough, because denial is fun.

So yeah that's this week.

Oh and my body's current preferred sleeping schedule seems to involve crashing as soon as I'm in bed (730 or 8), sleeping for about two hours, waking up and doing iPad shit like duo and daily stuff, and then going back to sleep around 11 or 12. I don't understand it at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My evening Netflix use has gone way down, lol. (I'm more used to "do stuff on iPad, including maybe Netflix, until 11/12/1, then sleep". But oh well.)

Comments

[sineala]

*offers virtual hug*

You want to know a fun fact about humans? That's (if you believe the research) the way humans used to sleep before electric lights were a thing. Sleep a few hours (first sleep), wake up for a couple hours, go back to sleep (second sleep). There's references to "first sleep" in things like The Odyssey and these days translators don't even know how to translate that because we don't do it anymore.

So, hey, you're reverting to the sleep patterns of your ancestors!

[kaberett]

sympathy <3

[babs_bee]

Oh I'm so sorry all this is happening.

It does seem as if all the crappy stuff happens at one time doesn't it?

Hugs.

[jesse_the_k]

Aiiiiiieee.

Sending you cool vibes and magic cranberry juice.

NuMotion -- damn the DME names just seem to get worse. Why can't they be fun names like Porsche or Quickie?

[ephemera]

That sounds like a lot. Hopefully some good things have happened in the gap where I was failing to reply to this, because you could surely use some Good Things!