I think a big part of it was trying to figure out my risk level should I go ahead to the Bug Family Christmas as Omicron takes flight. But work became more stressful than I expected, and I had to do battle with customer service for T over the never-actually-happening? home equity loan, and work became more stressful, and then to top it all off T ( Read more... )

I don't have the entire day off, there are a few tasks I need to do that won't take long -- less than an hour, maybe less than a half hour. But then I'm off until Tuesday ( Read more... )

It feels like the pain has moved, weird, more to the right side of my torso than before, which is sort of encouraging, that this is a muscle or tendon, not a joint,

Walking still hurts a bit, but I'm back to the full range of motion (my mantra is "embrace the pain"), so I should be able to run 1 mile on Tuesday morning (Monday is Maids Day, no ( Read more... )

I had to work late, so T and B were trying to slink quietly around the house as I'm on Zoom.gov ( Read more... )

Reading this medical journal article is helping me to put some of the symptoms I've had over the past week into context. And there are treatment courses, including medications that address problems with sleeping or hyperarousal. People throw around the term "PTSD" a lot, but that's a long-term disorder, not the type of reaction many of us have to ( Read more... )

The combination of all the stressors of the past four weeks made for one of the more difficult 3 mile runs in my athletic career, but I did not take a short cut.  And I felt all of it as I ran, I felt the Dax grief, the work stress, the physical stress of the fall I took last weekend, the social stress of reopening my social life, the need to ( Read more... )