I miss my bruises and I feel like I am losing my positioning

[sovay]

On the physical plane, I am just not doing very well. Among other things, I seem to have had an asthma attack last night. It was unpleasant. I would prefer not to repeat the experience. I meant to go out this afternoon into the brilliantly frigid sunlight and photograph whatever had not been mid-May frost-killed, but instead I finished my work and then I lay motionless on the couch. I appreciate the friend who is not on DW who sent me news of both masked hamsters and antibody llamas. My mother sent a few seconds of video in which she captured the bald eagle circling and calling over my parents' house. I am going to return to the couch and read Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs (1912), which feels like it should be a re-read, except I don't recognize any of it.

Comments

[nineweaving]

I seem to have had an asthma attack last night

This is unacceptable, universe.

I appreciate all your creatures.

Daddy-Long-Legs gave me want to go to a Seven Sisters college. I ignored the slightly dodgy romance.

Nine

[wpadmirer]

Wow. that Llama antibody story is interesting. The blood bank where I work is working hard to find people with Covid-19 antibodies and hoping they will then donate plasma. It's being used to treat the most critically ill, and right now is one of the few effective treatments.

[yhlee]

*support support*

[selkie]

*hugs*
My allergies are whanging away at my oxygen sats and I will have to use my inhaler before bed. So at least, as much as it sucks, I do not think it is worrisome in the way no one wants to run into worry right now.

[thawrecka]

Internet hugs, if you'd like them.

[gwynnega]

I'm so sorry you had an asthma attack. That's really adding insult to injury right now!

[niqaeli]

Asthma attacks are awful. I very much hope your preference is met and you do not repeat the experience.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, may you improve soon as the physical plane does tend to be quite important, really. ♥

[vass]

I hope you feel better very soon.

Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs is such a fascinating mixture of satisfying and concerning. The sequel, Dear Enemy (in which Sally takes over and overhauls the orphanage where Judy grew up) has some good parts too, but is marred by some really horrifying eugenics.

[asakiyume]

I loved the antibody llamas.

I would prefer for you to have a better time existing in your body.

Re: Asthma

[nodrog]

I will make a suggestion if I may, but with a caveat.  The government of what once was the Land of Mind Yer Own Dam Business a k a the Free, now literally regulates the air you breathe:  The element Oxygen is considered a controlled substance and requires a prescription… it says here.

Meanwhile, as Britain was turned by her government into “an island surrounded by smugglers,” so today you may go on eBay and purchase an oxygen concentrator for a couple hundred bucks.  As you may know, it runs room air through a chemical that absorbs nitrogen, 78% of normal air, then dispensing the remaining 20% oxygen. Fairly simple, and you periodically clean the nitrogen off the chemical, so it's renewable, reusable.

The good news:  Breathing oxygen is a gas, man!  The very breath of life, and you feel its benefits immediately, with every joyous lungful.

The bad news:  You get used to that saturation, so leaving your room is like suddenly being several thousand feet higher.  Suck air and grab clusters!

I'd suggest you look on eBay and get some data on prices, to aid your decision-making.