I don't have any plans for tomorrow, except a haircut. I've never been one for celebrating my birthdays much as an adult. Not having any ambitions or wanting a family has always given me a weirdly unstuck in time feeling, like because there's no benchmarks to measure my life against I've always felt no particular age ( Read more... )

I think I went a little too hard on Saturday. About an hour before I went to bed I reached over to grab something and felt an abdominal muscle pull and cramp. It felt like a sharp rebuke, like it was saying "I know laparoscopic gallbladder removal is not a big deal in the scheme of things, but you had your abdomen open in 4 different places and an ( Read more... )

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxoGbsS3pA1M4s7_-NpMfFJITB6lFDJA5P?si=afJ23kWwSundtUmzI think I now understand ordinary people in the Third Reich who just kept their heads down and waited for it to be over one way or another. It's not that they hated Jews or even wanted to be part of a German empire. I mean yes, that was a lot of them. But some of them ( Read more... )

Coincidentally or not, the week of the election my gallbladder started hurting more, and pretty much all the time. Then on Thursday morning I woke up very nauseated and couldn't keep anything down. I decided to give it a day, just to see if it was only a stomach bug or something. But when I felt no better Friday morning--worse, actually, because ( Read more... )

So I guess another Republican took a shot at Trump. Or not literally, I believe the Secret Service found him lurking in the bushes before he actually pulled the trigger. It's kinda wild that someone shot at him and actually killed someone else, and we're not even talking about it any more. Probably because he was a Republican; there's nothing for ( Read more... )

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I went into Abbeville General this morning before work for an X ray and an ultrasound. My grandparents were long-time volunteers at the hospital--they both grew up in very rural areas where the nearest hospital was very far away; in my grandfather's case, he wouldn't have been able to get treatment at the nearest hospitals, because was was Monacan ( Read more... )

I got some blood drawn at the doctor's office this morning, and my ultrasound is scheduled for Friday. Of course my gallbladder hasn't really hurt since Thursday, so I wonder if I should drop the whole thing. I mean there's a chance that I have like, pancreatic cancer or something, but I really don't think it's anything that dire. I'm turning 49 in ( Read more... )

I just found out we're going back to Blue Cross for our health insurance next year. So if the consensus is that my gallbladder needs to come out, I'm going to try to wait until January, unless the doctor says it's urgent. I hate the insurance we have now. Like, I'm in the Aetna PPO, but I'm not insured with Aetna, but something called Trustmark, ( Read more... )

I saw my doctor this morning, but all I did was spend a few minutes telling her my symptoms and getting my vitals taken. (I still have low blood pressure, even though I was stressed out at the time because a) Google still has her previous address listed and I was almost late, and b) her billing employee had just told me when he entered my name and ( Read more... )