When we visited Kauaʻi in 2016, we weren’t planning to live there. Shannon had considered it a possibility, but I had always insisted that I wouldn’t want to live away from a city’s convenient public transportation, restaurants, mental health support resources, etc. Plus, I didn’t want to leave my friends. But on that visit, I just … fell in love ( Read more... )

Lovely day today at Golden Gate Park with Shannon. Picnic in the Fern Grotto, respectful visit to the AIDS Memorial Grove, stroll through the Music Concourse admiring the fountains, and a walk around the island in the middle of Stow Lake ( Read more... )

My Meds Doc referred me to PHP today, and I expect they'll be phoning me on Tuesday to arrange an intake interview. Partial hospitalization again ... yay ( Read more... )

This is birthday week Chez Appelcline, and so our house is made of cake. Today is Shannon's birthday & mine is Saturday, so:

1. Today we went out & picnicked on the campus, swung by the Pacific Cookie Co. on the way home, plan to bike to Whole Foods to buy ourselves each a small birthday cake (since I will want something non-chocolate-lemon, probably- ( Read more... )

I haven't written since we got home from Hawaii, primarily because I kept wanting to write an entry that included photos, but couldn't seem to get myself to deal with the photos on my iPod, on my camera, and in the file Shannon sent to me. Finally, I dealt with them all ... and now there's the uploading to LJ. It all just felt so exhausting ... and ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here with my iPad, hanging out at Poipu Beach while Shannon swims with his dad. The wind is CRAZY today, much stronger than I've ever seen here, but the temp is still nice and warm, so I don't mind it much. The wind made lunch a bit of an adventure, though, since it kept trying to make off with our napkins while we were eating at a ( Read more... )

We're in Hawaii again for our annual trip to visit the in-laws ( Read more... )

Today is my first day with no codeine whatsoever. My last Tylenol #4 tablet was yesterday at 11:50 am (almost exactly 24 hours ago), at which time the headache was excruciating. It's worse now ( Read more... )

Change of plan. The extremity of tonight's headache has convinced me to reduce the Neurontin dosage by only 100 mg/day, instead of 200. So I'll go down to 500 mg tonight through at least the end of the weekend, then see how the headaches and the zombification are doing. I don't remember being Zombie Kimberly when I was on 500 mg last week ... it ( Read more... )

Reducing the Neurontin dosage to 400 mg/day (instead of 600 mg/day) for the next few days, because from 10 am Friday through sometime Sunday afternoon, I'll be socializing with numerous extended family members (many of whom I will be meeting for the first time) pretty much every waking hour, and it would suck to do all that while being the ( Read more... )