X-Ray OK!

This past Wednesday's activities, before I fully forget.

Note: this entry mentions, extensively if not in any great detail, the symptom that I posted about locked last Monday. (Tags are relevant to the x-ray, as of the time of posting.) ( Read more... )

... so, probably allergies. Which I have. A lot of. My GP comes back on the 6th, I think. We can discuss after that.

Friday was April Fool's Day, which I normally celebrate, but I just had no energy for that. Belovedest's day off, so I re-did the shopping list, updated my PineTime firmware, and we did A Shopping. My favorite April Fool of the few I did see was SkratchLabs: would you like to book time with their labs to meet your sports goals? These three labrador retrievers are standing by! Alas, no real doggos, but some adorable stickers that the first N orders would get. Aww.

Saturday I was feeling perky enough to even go afield and check out the free leftovers of a yard sale. I found some stuff and had a good chat with Nora. The update from the condo zone: it's a bad fit for multiple people visiting at night, alas, not without carpool arrangements.

Sunday involved a lot of interior design discussion with Ev. Theoretical for now, but we have established that a nice sturdy Twin XL frame with good clearance underneath, and a Twin XL trundle, is what we'd want, and then we could make it up as a daybed.

Today is Monday. I did my "homework" before seeing my psych, which is filling in my sleep chart. (He really likes my sleep chart; he says it's laid out well and easy to understand.) We're leaving my sleep meds as-is, since I'm sleeping better and have not had another "red" night since hitting the current dose, and we are fucking with my Strattera again.

Or, well, we WOULD be, but the pharmacy texted while we were getting my Toaster refueled. The thing's on backorder. So I'll stick at the current dose for a little while, maybe if I have some leftovers I can poke at the thing, and I'll see him in another month.

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Sleep Graph

My current sleep chart is probably going to get overhauled at some point, because the setup is labor-intensive.

15 columns, 14 of little squares, followed by a line.
Column 1 is the day of the month.
2-14 are hours of sleep, top row color-coded.
The line is for total hours of sleep and notes.

Color coding:
Red for insufficient sleep. If a sleep length is of this, I am likely either unsafe to operate heavy machinery or make important decisions, or I will only be okay for a few hours before I will need to restore my forces by napping. If circumstances are bad, I may have depression symptoms that I should inform my providers about immediately. I should attempt to nap or at least lie down quietly with my eyes closed.
Yellow for the bare minimum of functionality. If a sleep length is yellow, I can drive and decide things, but my mood and creativity are likely impacted. I may have breakthrough depression symptoms, be crabby and unlikely to want company outside of my nearest and dearest, not be up for novel media, and be generally unwell.
Green is sufficient sleep, at least technically. If I am tired and draggy, it is likely something other than sleep that makes me so. I have a good chance of being coherent. I should be able to operate heavy machinery and make decisions.
Purple is extra sleep. It is likely that something has made me more tired than usual, including medication changes, illness, and insufficient sleep the previous day.
Dark gray is for awake time that replaces or interrupts sleep, since Dr. V asked about that.

Generally I color all the squares in one day's record with the color for the total, but sometimes I will color the first section of divided sleep with the color that it would have been if I weren't able to get more sleep.

The notes line gets the sleep hours, or sum of sleep hours, a note about meds changes, pain, or whatever might fuck with my sleep. It gets highlighted with the color of the total.

This would probably work better with a wider page, a longer page, graph paper, and/or Excel.

apropos of a well-filmed pie fight

Aspects by John M. Ford came out in the US today.

I have read the introduction.

I will now go read something else while my eyes clear up.