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rowanfSo I finally started to get my energy back and was feeling pretty good. Then Sunday I woke up with a headache with a weird right-eye thing and a bit of light sensitivity. Wondered if it was going to be a migraine. Took meds, ate breakfast, met my friends in WoW for our Sunday morning run. Decided it wasn't going to be a migraine and hopped in the car to head up to the Second Sunday Adocentyn Research Library work party day. Got to about Oakland when I realized... uh oh, it IS going to be a migraine. Got to the library. Visited with folks, managed to catalog all of two books... over about two hours. Realized that I had better get my light-sensitive, tunnel-vision, woozy self back on the road if I had any chance of getting home. And it wasn't like I was doing anything useful. Got in the car and phoned Russell (who was also driving, on his way back from Santa Barbara) and got him to chat with me all the way home to make sure I got there safely (and keep my focused). It worked. I got home, fell over. The one good thing about going to Albany was I did snag take-away from Aangan, the Nepali restaurant around the corner, so there was yummies for dinner. I went to sleep about 5pm and slept until 8am the next morning. That seems to have cleared it up. But I admit I was stupid to drive and really lucky it didn't cause an accident.
Monday I met with the endochrinologist. He seems quite nice. But he felt that my TSH is fine and that my primary care doc can manage it. He is going to refer me to Valley Med's Menopause Clinic to talk to someone about hormones in general. He didn't think they'd be like the PAMF guys "someone your age shouldn't be on hormones, period". We shall see.
Then I went by a friend's house to take her some groceries. It is hard to see a friend in so much pain and distress. I will be doing this again soon.
Then I came home but it was too cold to sit in the sun. I have been trying to sit on the porch in the sun every day. I'm reading Layne Redmond's _When the Drummers Were Women_. I'm enjoying it, despite the crazy "The Goddess" new age/women's spirituality aspects. She has pulled together a lot of cool pictures and ideas about the use of frame drums. I funded Ms. Redmond's kickstarter project "Axé Orixá: Dreaming Awake the Gods & Goddesses of Brazil". One of the updates early on was a live talk by her and some of her teammates where she showed a lot of the pictures of the drum research and I mentioned it to Petra who said Ree had just given her the book and did I want to borrow it. Isn't it cool how things come together sometimes?
On Tuesday I drove up to Dublin and picked up the other half of my pig. Our freezer is entirely full of pork, bacon, sausage, etc. The smoked ham didn't fit so it is in the fridge defrosting. Ham on Thursday. No more buying bulk meats without owning a chest freezer! LOL It surely is yummy though.
I sent a note to the EDD about my lack of benefits. They determined, as I expected, that they would dock my benefits durin the two week recovery from surgery. But I haven't gotten any forms since. *grumble* Part of me wants to ignore it (and run away to the tropics) but the sensible part knows I need the income support whilst I look for a job. *sigh* I'm waiting to hear about the start date for the net PROMATCH group at the Job Center. I'm supposed to be in the group. The Center moved across the street in December so there wasn't a December group. I wish they'd write me so I'll know my schedule.
Monday I met with the endochrinologist. He seems quite nice. But he felt that my TSH is fine and that my primary care doc can manage it. He is going to refer me to Valley Med's Menopause Clinic to talk to someone about hormones in general. He didn't think they'd be like the PAMF guys "someone your age shouldn't be on hormones, period". We shall see.
Then I went by a friend's house to take her some groceries. It is hard to see a friend in so much pain and distress. I will be doing this again soon.
Then I came home but it was too cold to sit in the sun. I have been trying to sit on the porch in the sun every day. I'm reading Layne Redmond's _When the Drummers Were Women_. I'm enjoying it, despite the crazy "The Goddess" new age/women's spirituality aspects. She has pulled together a lot of cool pictures and ideas about the use of frame drums. I funded Ms. Redmond's kickstarter project "Axé Orixá: Dreaming Awake the Gods & Goddesses of Brazil". One of the updates early on was a live talk by her and some of her teammates where she showed a lot of the pictures of the drum research and I mentioned it to Petra who said Ree had just given her the book and did I want to borrow it. Isn't it cool how things come together sometimes?
On Tuesday I drove up to Dublin and picked up the other half of my pig. Our freezer is entirely full of pork, bacon, sausage, etc. The smoked ham didn't fit so it is in the fridge defrosting. Ham on Thursday. No more buying bulk meats without owning a chest freezer! LOL It surely is yummy though.
I sent a note to the EDD about my lack of benefits. They determined, as I expected, that they would dock my benefits durin the two week recovery from surgery. But I haven't gotten any forms since. *grumble* Part of me wants to ignore it (and run away to the tropics) but the sensible part knows I need the income support whilst I look for a job. *sigh* I'm waiting to hear about the start date for the net PROMATCH group at the Job Center. I'm supposed to be in the group. The Center moved across the street in December so there wasn't a December group. I wish they'd write me so I'll know my schedule.
