Tew's Day

Administration
Happy birthday to velvetsteel!

Medical
The whole shebang - staggering, weird-in-the-head, vision, etc.

Also fever of 100.5 and shortness of breath and stuff.

Movies
Anyone wanna go to a 1:40 of Finding Neverland with me?

Will add later.

ATTN People in the SF Bay Area...

Can anyone help in the adoption of some pet rats?

Weighty Matters

I forgot why Elayna brought up the subject of weight this morning, but for whatever reason, she said "You're a hundred pounds!"

"Ninety, sweetie."

"Oh yeah, because you lost weight." Pause. "I thought grownups wanted to lose weight. That losing weight was good."

Thank god Adam jumped on that one. This ended up being a conversation of some length regarding weight loss and the implications thereof - how most adults are at a perfectly healthy weight. How some need to GAIN weight.

Not all adults need to lose weight. And the whole "I'll be happy if I just lose 10 more pounds" culture is dangerous to girls.

Elayna is absolutely a perfect weight for her height.

Medical

Recording non-side-effect crap.

Have been feeling short of breath and joint-achy for about two weeks - is it two weeks, Adam? Definitely more than one week. Basically, just figured I was very slowly coming down with something. And "shortness of breath" is a listed side effect, so who knows?

Two days ago, started feeling like I slept wrong: difficult to turn my head. Pain in neck and upper chest. I bring this up because it worsened yesterday into what I described to Adam as a cage of inflamed nerves. Yesterday I was pretty okay when I was sitting down, but it FLARED whenever I moved. This made sleeping interesting, as I move around a lot.

Today... well, shitty side effects straight off, so hard to tell, but I was feeling *off* enough in non-side-effect ways that I promptly took my temperature. 100.5 at 6 AM and again at 7 AM. Chest is feeling compressed. Like it's being *held* - I'm mostly okay if I take shallow breaths, but I have lots of *pressure* if I try to breathe normally. Feels like someone's sitting on my chest, albeit a smallish somebody. Upper back pain, too. That same "cage".

Also: Acquaintances are concerned. Which means I'm really not looking good, as I fake functionality *really* well.

Adam, correct me/add to this?

Going home in half an hour. Think I'll skip getting my MRI films and my prescription today and just go rest til my movie.

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I just paid off my car.

Damn, that feels good. :)

This must be what going mad feels like...

Just saw Finding Neverland.

Very wonderful movie, oh yes.

One of the things that it sparked in me - watching Barrie's wife struggle - it really does take that special sort of insanity to marry a writer. To know that your partner will be spending half their life off in Story.

So few people understand what that *means*. Barrie's wife didn't, apparantly...

More on that later. Must go lie down now.

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Also: Remind me to post the saga on this car and a tiny fragment of my ex-husband's mind-boggling idiocy.