Is it right to feel so wrong?
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![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
moon_custafer: a really good point. Also, I hope that's all the same movie; I'd watch it.
3. Courtesy ofhandful_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 ofspatch: 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.
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.
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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.
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Even the DOCS say the people are staying at home rather than going in with stroke/cardiac symptoms! https://mynorthwest.com/1813797/overlake-medical-care-fear-covid19/
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For all I know, they can direct T to look at your retinas with a flashlight! I have no idea. I just feel it's worth the check-in if you can. (If it passes off, whatever.)
Even the DOCS say the people are staying at home rather than going in with stroke/cardiac symptoms!
My follow-up CTA was canceled in March. We'll find out how my cerebrovascular thrombosis is doing . . . someday.
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I have flashes in my right eye. Two eye doctors over a period of a month or so examined me multiple times and decided it was OK. I was warned to go back quickly if they got so flashy that I can see them regularly during the day (they are noticeable mostly in the dark). Probably useless anecdote...