I gotta get to those back-posts, don't I ( Read more... )

I have been in denial... I'm so disappointed with myself! But it's hard to embrace yet another issue springing from my on-again, off-again disabled body ( Read more... )

After all the Supreme Court rulings that have come down at the end of their session this year, on top of all the other bullshit in the last few years, I could give a flying fuck about our precious nation...

The reasons Clarence Thomas gave for undoing Roe v. Wade call into question several other granted freedoms to various people that I believe ( Read more... )

Well, my going out in public so much almost 2 weeks ago got me sick. Maybe just a bad cold, but given the symptoms I've had (wheezy cough, terrible headache, dizziness, glass-grinding stomach ache...) I think there's a good chance it's the latest Omicron variant. Maybe not, and I've had my vaccine and booster (J&J/Jansen lasts 9 months to a year) ( Read more... )

It's not like me to not be writing all the time. And I'm starting to get back to it, but rather slowly.

I think my 4 months of severe flaring scared the shit out of me.From mid-July through mid-October, I was fatigued so badly my life, modest as it already is, completely disappeared. I was listening to podcasts, staring at the ceiling, stuck in ( Read more... )

So, I mentioned in yesterday's entry that I think I may have discovered what triggered my bout with flares. Normally, short-term it's a low-pressure system moving in, but that evens out in a few hours and does not cause the weeks and months-long flares I've been having. Longer term triggers seem to always involve my immune system going haywire. Any ( Read more... )

Sorry for long absence-- again ( Read more... )

Lately, I haven't had many spoons. That's a term for people with chronic fatigue from any of a number of illnesses.

More on that phrase here:

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Fatigue and a headache are the only symptoms left from my brush with Covid Delta.

It seems that THIS variant often manifests like a head cold to start and is more likely to affect the digestive system later on. Cat did have a slightly runny nose for a couple of days, and her blood sugar spiked a little, but that was all she had. Mike may have also ( Read more... )

Finally got an update on Tami! One of her daughters said she's improved a little and is stable. She must stay in the hospital until she's completely out of the woods, but it looks likely that she'll survive. I didn't hear if she was put on a ventilator or not. I don't know how conscious she is but it doesn't look like Covid will kill her ( Read more... )