Is it right to feel so wrong?

[sovay]

I really object to this state of affairs wherein, since I have not been able to see either of my physical therapists since the city shut down in mid-March, my pain levels have gotten so bad that I am sleeping a couple of hours per night at most. I am not looking for tips on insomnia or pain management. I am doing everything in my power that is not those aspects of PT that cannot be reproduced at home. I am just registering unhappiness at my exhaustion and shot concentration and at least I'm not likely to lose the use of a limb from it, but also ow. Have some links.

1. A friend whom I had not heard sing since grad school has recorded himself singing Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes' "Lonely House." He apologizes for the glitches of a first-time video, but I think the authentic feeling more than makes up for any audio pops.

2. Courtesy of moon_custafer: a really good point. Also, I hope that's all the same movie; I'd watch it.

3. Courtesy of handful_ofdust: I remember very fondly the children's book this spell comes from. Specifically, I remember reading it on the cat-tattered green couch of the apartment in which I grew up. I just realized it should probably be classed among that genre of invented worlds that take on lives of their own, like Greer Gilman's Cloud, and I've never seen it discussed that way.

4. Courtesy of spatch: an eloquent bookshelf. (It may have been inspired by John Finnemore's Cabin Fever.)

5. Want to be part of tracking the asymptomatic or untested spread of SARS-CoV-2? There's a study for that.

I saw that the man in the White House wants to "reopen the economy" on May 1st, which I assume is nothing more than his continuing appetite to murder his so-called fellow Americans for profit. I don't know if the U.S. can pull off a general strike, but I don't know what else our options are. Our governor's newfound spine had better be able to hold up. [edit] Massachusetts just joined the Northeast coalition to coordinate ongoing pandemic response, otherwise known as the acknowledgement of reality in the face of the federal government. This is one hundred percent politically fucking nuts, but it makes me feel safer.

Comments

[cynthia1960]

Gavin Newsom better keep his spine strong. I refuse to see my fellow Californians murdered for 45's pleasure, profit, and election chances.

[sovay]

Gavin Newsom better keep his spine strong. I refuse to see my fellow Californians murdered for 45's pleasure, profit, and election chances.

Strength to his arm.

[redbird]

It sounds like he's going to be coordinating with Washington and Oregon, and Jay Inslee is not likely to do *anything* to make Trump happy. (I think he's adult enough that he'll do the right thing even if it makes Trump happy.)

Several of the states in the northeast are also talking about coordinating--not Massachusetts, at least not yet, but maybe Baker will see sense on this.

[rachelmanija]

I think he will. I voted for him specifically because I thought he was willing to stick his neck out for the sake of accomplishing big things, only at the time I was thinking of non-coronavirus health care and climate change.

[choco_frosh]

Isn't this the man who recently referred to California as a nation state?

I'd say this also falls into the category of one hundred percent politically fucking nuts, but that suggests to me* that lack of spine isn't going to be his problem.

* though of course, I'm from the other end of the country and don't follow CA politics, so what do I know?

[ethelmay]

The overalls and singlet thing? Let's just say I knew a guy back in the day who literally went out and bought me a pair of overalls for precisely that look.

[sovay]

The overalls and singlet thing? Let's just say I knew a guy back in the day who literally went out and bought me a pair of overalls for precisely that look.

Good for that guy!

[ethelmay]

I think Eleanor Cameron discusses The Witch Family that way in The Green and Burning Tree.

[sovay]

I think Eleanor Cameron discusses The Witch Family that way in The Green and Burning Tree.

Nice! (I have not read The Green and Burning Tree. When the libraries reopen . . .)

[julian]

I say a sympathetic "ow" on your behalf.

Thank you for the study link. And the bookshelf link. Actually, just, all of them.

[sovay]

I say a sympathetic "ow" on your behalf.

Thank you. I am awaiting the arrival of a new sheep (microwavable hot pack in family dialect) as we speak.

Thank you for the study link. And the bookshelf link. Actually, just, all of them.

You're welcome!

[kore]

Yeah, I had a migraine with what I thought was a typical migraine flasher, only the migraine went away (some) and the flasher didn't. I've had erratic vision and flashers and floaters (thick floaters) all my life, so I'm just hoping at this point it's an extended migraine aura, or a harmless flasher, or anything other than a retinal tear or detachment. Ordinarily I'd schedule an appointment and get reassured that Everything Is Just Fine! You Are Too Anxious!, but it's weird to realize that along with people dying by the tens of thousands, people who don't have the virus (so we assume) are cut off from medical care too. (At least here in WA, all elective surgeries are still cancelled.)

[redbird]

Elective things are cancelled, emergency may not be. It might still be worth calling your eye doctor, if you have one, or a nurse line or your primary care doctor.

[sovay]

it's weird to realize that along with people dying by the tens of thousands, people who don't have the virus (so we assume) are cut off from medical care too.

It is killing quite a lot of people who would otherwise be walking into ERs with their heart attacks etc., yes. That's the part where we will almost certainly never know the true death toll of this pandemic and wouldn't even if we had better testing and tracking.

If your flasher does not fade with the rest of the migraine, or if it does any of the usual exciting things like changing shape, I would still call your doctor.

[gwynnega]

My sympathies about the lack of PT and its effects.

I voted for Newsom without any particular enthusiasm, but he has stepped up to this challenge in an impressive way, and I'm grateful he's in charge in California. Trump may think he can say, at one and the same time, 1) that coronavirus response is up to the governors, not him and 2) that he, not the governors, gets to say when to stop the stay-at-home orders, but I don't think that hypocrisy is going to fly.

[sovay]

My sympathies about the lack of PT and its effects.

Thank you. Likewise!

Trump may think he can say, at one and the same time, 1) that coronavirus response is up to the governors, not him and 2) that he, not the governors, gets to say when to stop the stay-at-home orders, but I don't think that hypocrisy is going to fly.

I don't know how he would enforce the latter except in ways that would cause fighting in the streets, and I'm not even sure it would work then. (But we would have fighting in the streets, and I don't want that.)

[nineweaving]

3. I love The Witch Family, and I'm honored to be named in the same breath. I could do with a backanalley right now.

4. Brilliant!

Go, coalition! Let's snatch the microphone right out of the bastard's hand.

Nine

PS: Nation’s Governors Consider Forming Country

“We were bidding against each other for masks and ventilators, and I was, like, ‘This is crazy,’” one governor said. “‘It would be so much better if we just worked together and formed a country.’”

[sovay]

I love The Witch Family, and I'm honored to be named in the same breath. I could do with a backanalley right now.

If it precedes a great piece of magic, maybe you should try it. I don't see what it could hurt.

Go, coalition! Let's snatch the microphone right out of the bastard's hand.

I continue to feel it is not a professional obligation to platform dangerous nonsense.

PS: Nation’s Governors Consider Forming Country

"'We're all in agreement that it would be amazing to have a President right now,' DeWine said."

(Augh.)

[asakiyume]

I'm very interested in that study! Thanks for that link.

Re: the bookshelf, are all of those truly books? (I know some are, but some seem improbable, but... ?)

Very very sorry about the pain -_-

[sovay]

I'm very interested in that study! Thanks for that link.

You're welcome!

Re: the bookshelf, are all of those truly books? (I know some are, but some seem improbable, but... ?)

I hope so. The Corona Book of Horror Stories is real.

Very very sorry about the pain

Thank you.

*hugs*

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, I'm sorry. (One of my other flisters is also have similar problems with increased pain without PT and it sucks. Here's to getting out the other end as soon as we safely may.) *hugs*

[sovay]

Here's to getting out the other end as soon as we safely may.

Thank you.

*hugs*

[cmcmck]

May the 1st?

But....but.....that's a Socialist day!

[sovay]

But....but.....that's a Socialist day!

Like I said, I wish I could feel confident of a general strike.

[vass]

I'm so sorry your pain levels are so bad without your normal pain management options. That really sucks, and it's a special kind of horrible that it's affecting your sleep, and bad sleep presumably also makes the pain worse. *offers hugs*

[sovay]

That really sucks, and it's a special kind of horrible that it's affecting your sleep, and bad sleep presumably also makes the pain worse.

It certainly doesn't help. Thank you.

*hugs gladly accepted*

[thistleingrey]

Sympathetic fistbump on the pain-induced disruption of sleep.

[sovay]

Sympathetic fistbump on the pain-induced disruption of sleep.

Thank you. Sadly likewise.