If the CPAP is not doing quite exactly right, I don't get quite enough oxygen while I'm sleeping. This causes my heart to pound a little. Which my autonomic nervous system reads as anxiety. So I wake up feeling scared about something-anything my subconscious can come up with to justify the feeling, really. Today it has latched onto the one or two ( Read more... )

Sunday, I think, I ate something very bad. Pretty sure I know what it was, but that's all water under the bridge ( Read more... )

So New Years Day I lazed about most of the day and then headed out to visit friends in the evening for dinner.

On the way home I started feeling a little unwell but nothing too bad.

( this gets really gross )

Many of you may have noticed that I was not at Windycon. I'm sorry for that ( Read more... )

So, an update ( Read more... )

Surgery was fine as far as I know; I was insensate for the whole thing. The left top quadrant of my face is numb, from my upper teeth to well back on the top of my head and from my nose to almost my ear. Big gauze pad like Steve Austin. I'm hoping the device they put in me is as cool as the one they put in him.

(originally posted on dreamwidth. ( Read more... )

So a year ago I saw the surgeon about repairing my eye. He said it seemed stable and I should schedule the surgery whenever I was ready. He also coded it as a result of a birth defect (which it is not). Which would mean it's a pre-existing condition and likely to not be covered by my shitty insurance ( Read more... )

I haven't been sleeping well the last few weeks. The last few days this was exacerbated by the cold clogging up my nose, which interacts poorly with the CPAP. But in general the last few weeks have been sup-par ( Read more... )

On 29 August, a piece of one of my teeth cracked off. This is one of the teeth that the dentist who severely traumatized me when I was a child filled because he felt like it/because he convinced my parents I would never be able to keep them clean enough because the grooves were too deep. Naturally, since amalgam fillings have an average lifespan ( Read more... )

My new glasses arrived today ( Read more... )