Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
It's so wonderful to know someonne like you.
Heal quickly.
I had the house appraised the other day and the appraiser was a nice middle aged lady. She didn't look well - had dark circles under her eyes and dropped her camera twice and her clip board once. I asked if she was not feeling well and she replied that she had covid last year after only one vax and hasn't felt right since. Her muscles still ache.
My sil had two vax and a booster and got covid just over a week ago. He felt and looked bad one day and within 3 days was recovered. Dd has the sniffles one day - who knows if that was covid or not.
I feel badly for the appraiser lady. She may have had the delta variant and sil may have had omicron so that could account for the difference, as well as the state of vaccination. I am so glad I and my family are vaccinated. Dd's cancer treatment has had to be pushed back because of exposure to sil's infection.
Poor 16 year old dgs had a meltdown the other day - his dad had covid (at that time) and his mum has cancer. I think he was pretty scared. Fortunately dgd was a support for him and dad got better soon.
I had a septoplasty a few years ago. The doctor told me later, when I was asking about something, that I didn't have general anesthesia and I was awake the whole time... but I don't remember a thing. I've never bothered to investigate how that could happen.
Being "out" during anything more than minor surgery is a blessing imo. This was accomplished in my surgery without me being aware of anything during or after for quite a while, but it wasn't general anesthesia.
Anyone know more about this? Just curious and Google doesn't have a quick answer.
Seems like an option for elders -- no general anesthesia but also no increased anxiety during surgery -- that could be very helpful since there are unique side effects and risks for elders. My father never regained his ability to urinate after general anesthesia was used during his cancer reconstruction surgery. It took years and two additional surgeries to correct that problem, and there was sepsis and other complications from the catheter in the meantime.
You guys are brave to opt for no opioids. If I don't need them then I don't ask for them but one time I couldn't sleep at all because I was so uncomfortable. I called in for something and was Rx'd hydrocodone and took it for a week. It helped to get through the worst of the discomfort and help me rest. I think it was very worth it and I went into it knowing I would want to discontinue them quickly. Is there another reason to avoid opiods that I'm not aware of? My dad didn't need his Rx'd opioids after his surgeries. I was surprised.
I've gotten very sick on some pain medication, though. During my 40th birthday getaway, my girlfriend gave me a dilaudid when I couldn't sleep. We were in Mexico and she had gotten them locally to help her terrible teeth pain after having her braces adjusted and she didn't have wax to keep from rubbing her mouth raw. I had a terrible reaction and threw up several times that night and the next day. It was the most miserable flight I've ever been on the next day coming back.
My News Feed used to display recent activity across the site to the right of my NF. Now it just lists the NF and no recent activity. Anyone else? Tried changing some AC settings but it's still gone and I feel like I could be missing something to fix it. Did it change? I also changed some privacy settings recently on my laptop and have some new ad blockers. Wondering if that could be affecting my display. Thank you.
And I'm happy the lag between pages has gotten better, it was getting really annoying.
In the past few days:
My Epson printer won't connect despite days of effort and downloading every bit of troubleshooting software and drivers. It's on my network but won't add the device correctly and is giving me multiple and changing error messages. Epson support will be calling me back "in the next 24 hours." I guess I sit next to my devices the next 24 hours...? 🙄
OneDrive sync settings keeps giving me error messages. Repeat fixes keep reverting to error messages.
Maybe I messed up a Windows Defender or firewall setting. I'm really not sure. Working on it. I was trying to improve some security while going around the typical anti-virus suites because they're predatory as heck and Google says I don't need them. Can't find any simple answers for why all this happened but it's pointing to firewall schtuff. OneDrive could be a separate issue. I have two accounts, personal and school and there's been a mishmash of problems since the school account was added. *headdesk*
The AC problem was easily fixed by deleting the extensions.
This too shall pass? Should be the worst thing that ever happens to me? Any other platitudes to help here? 😂
Just putting this here in case there are any tech wizards lurking. 😉
I switched to avast free antivirus years ago and I'm happy with that too (although they do try to push upgrades 🙄)
He is so busy 'editing' books so he can read them. A bit on the strange OCD side, but so much better than the alternative happening with him.
We both increased the sublingual B-12 to 5000 mcg. = 5 mg. (micrograms, not milligrams.).
It is sunny here, and yesterday I was gently raking leaves in the beautiful outdoors! Enough exercise to count as walking 1/2 mile. DH picked them all up!