Badger's Lair

Jul. 31st, 2009

Amongst other things...

mood:

anxious

It looks like I'll be attempting the trip to Worldcon this year! *squee*! So if you see me in the big red scooter (with the Hello Kitty stickers on it! ;-) say hello to me, give me a hug, etc. Just make sure I can see you! *wry chuckle*

In other worlds... my dad got sick, but he's doing much better now, and his new apartment in an independent living section of a retirement community agrees quite well with him. He's now in Portland, Maine, and my sister lives about a mile away from him. Good in case of emergencies!!! (I dealt with one already, almost broke me, not doing it again!)

My pain levels continue pretty much unabated. However, I haven't completely let it stop me yet, and the next few weeks will involve cleaning out my father's old house in Dartmouth, MA. I'm sleeping a lot, and a lot of strange hours at that. For example, I woke up at 6 this morning, and my body is telling me to go sleep already. I just wanted to get this quick note out. I apologize for it taking so long to write, hopefully I'll be awake for some other post. *wry sigh*

May. 3rd, 2009

Craziness+++

mood:

depressed

Well, apparently I haven't posted in 12 weeks. :-P

First posting via Nintendo DSi!
Things are incredibly nuts at the moment. My father turned 80 near the beginning of April. Two weekends ago he totalled his Prius on a Friday night on his way back from bowling. My sister took him to a Red Sox game that Sunday as his birthday present. He proceeded to take a nasty fall, bruising his right leg and getting a nasty cut on it.

Turns out that a week ago Friday he needed a transfusion for severe anemia. That helped a lot, but his balance is still off. :-(

As a consequence, Jeremy and I have been down there on his days off. Unfortunately, said days off vary. :p I've been more than marginally ovewhelmed with this and other things so much so that I haven't checked my email in over a month - my telephone messages too. I can still be reached at strange hours by telephone except during midweek. Right now, for example! ;-)

Very saddened to hear of the passing of "Dr. Filk" He will be missed, even though I only met him last year at OVFF.

Feb. 7th, 2009

For those that wanted to know...

mood:

drained

music: mental-Birdhouse in Your Soul...TMBG

Apparently, this is the type of SVT that I have. http://www.webmd.com/hw-popup/av-nodal-reentrant-tachycardia

The cardiologist said that it's exceedingly common and I had nothing to worry about. There's even a 'couple manouvers that you can do to to try to stop the tachycardia at home without going to the hospital. Doesn't always work, but I'll give it a shot next time my heart decides to do the Masochism Tango. *wry grin*

Other than that, my usual case of the bleahs. Jeremy will be going to work tonight, which means I'll be fairly bored, but I have things to read and hopefully he'll get a full 5 days next week instead of 4. (financially speaking... personally, I'm more comfortable sometimes when he's at home...)

I'm keeping this entry short in the interest of reading a magazine article and then getting some damn sleep again. (slept from round 9pm to 11:45, then from 12-2. But it wasn't enough.)

Feb. 3rd, 2009

Aha!

location: Home

mood:

curious

music: Lycanthrope In Love-Boogie Knights-Oh The Horror

Found the name of the drug that they used in my IV in the hospital to make the fast heartbeat go away. It's called Adenosine. I'll look it up later, but it looks like from what I'm reading on WebMD that I may need further tests, so it's a Good Thing (tm) that I've got an appointment with the cardiologist on Thurs.

Been playing with Facebook, which is a fun distraction. Also planning on doing some reading offline later on. Have the "Princeps' Fury" by Jim Butcher to read, and US News magazine as well. But somehow my mind seems to be wandering more than usual. Facebook, WebMD, email, APEX website, and iTunes all running along with some downloads. ooof.

Jan. 31st, 2009

Ack!

location: Home

mood:

apathetic

music: Dragon Feeds Tonight-Boogie Knights-Cavalier Attitude

I'm wondering if anyone is available to keep me company this late night... I had a bad case of not cope last night, and need to be kept company/distracted.

Thanks.

Jan. 29th, 2009

Continuing on the recovery scale...

mood:

chipper

music: They Might Be Giants-Flood

It looks like the whole tachycardia thing is going to make my life interesting. In other words, if I've got a panic attack OR a tachycardia event, it's going to take time to figure out which one it is. Ugh. I don't want to take a panic attack to the ER as a tachycardia event, or vice versa. Confusing. However, I'm going to hold rather firmly to the tachycardia being properly treated and the panic attacks being as rare as possible.

Wanted to have a "Life, the Universe, and Everything" party at Boskone for my birthday on the 21st. However, I haven't gotten my act together, and I don't think I will in time, which kinda sucks. :P OTOH, I'm not sure how I want to approach the whole birthday thing this year. Luckily, aside from the usual pain considerations, I've got to say I hope to be in good shape for both the con and my birthday, as long as I'm careful. (not leaving the house during snowstorms definitely helps! Staying inside watching the snow early Wed. morning made me happy that it was pretty and I was safe and warm inside. :-)

It's a work in progress to get all of the crud from the various leads and taped bits off of my skin, though. :P These adhesives are ferocious in wanting to stay on my skin, even after the use of them is long past. Been trying various things without much effect, so hope that a shower early in the afternoon before doctors appointments will help. Seeing my GP around 3pm, and my chiro around 4:45, I think it is.

Jan. 28th, 2009

I'm home!

mood:

content

Just a quick note to say that I'm home from the hospital with a diagnosis of something called SVT-Supraventicular Tachycardia. Basically they sent me home with a prescription for a beta blocker, a type of cardiac medicine usually used for high blood pressure, but also used for some tons of other things. Now I'm going to have to be better about getting up from lying down or standing so I don't let the dizzy monster win. *wry chuckle* Am quite woozle right now, but wanted to stop in and thank everyone for the kind comments! *BIG HUGS* y'all!

Jan. 27th, 2009

Cardiac excitement...

So on Sunday I was getting off to sleep around 11am, and my heart started racing. I was too tired to care, so I crashed anyway. Woke up with a start around 3pm, and after tending a few necessities, I called the doctor's office. He said to go to the ER, but I waited for my shrink to visit, and she talked me into going, despite the fact that I had a visitor coming in at 6pm. Reported racing heartbeat to the staff...got a lot of attention very very quickly. They injected me with a drug to make it go away, and it made me feel icky, but got the job done. I was admitted to be observed, and proceeded to getting an echocardiogram yesterday, then am getting a (chemical) stress test tomorrow...er...later today. *wry grin* Doing reasonably ok, aside from aggravated hip pain from waiting on an uncomfortable stretcher. :P Morphine is good, though! :-) Hopefully, if the stress test is normal, they will send me home. :-)

Lawrence Memorial Hospital, West 3, room 325B if you want to visit in the morning.

Jan. 25th, 2009

Ergh.

location: Home

mood:

apathetic

music: The Guitar-They Might Be Giants-Dial-a-song: 20 Years of They Might Be Giants

Trying to deal with post-con depression and depression in general. Lower back got successful injections on Wed. early afternoon. Still groggier than I'd like, which is probably having an effect on my affect. *wry grin* Had a good con, despite a few errors, as usual, on my part. I get to be blamed for a lot of things. But OTOH, things went much better than usual, in that I didn't fall down, and there weren't any major emotional crisises that I had to solve on the spot. Crying in front of someone I despise was a downside, as was spending time talking with someone else that distresses me. (although there was really no way I could think of to say no.)

Spent some wonderful time being a baby hog, spent too much money, will be getting a new Honeck cane, this time with the carving of the dragon on top of it. It may be that I'll be a little behind my cellphone bill, but it's worth a bit of debt to get the cane I need, that hopefully I won't loose this time! *Wry sigh*

Slowly working through the books I bought, or were bought for me. Read two yesterday, hope to read another tonight or in the afternoon. I should sleep, but I should take a bath too. :P Decisions, decisions.... I think I'll go in search of more gas pills now. (I know, how ... attractive. :P ):

Jan. 16th, 2009

Quizlet

mood:

amused

My personalDNA Report

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Jan. 15th, 2009

Wanderings...

mood:

calm

music: JoCo

Well, tired and irritable, but made it into the Arisia hotel only a 'couple hours later than I'd planned. By then I was exhausted, in pain, and stressed out. I was rude to people, I think, but I was a non-cope person right then. Doing somewhat better now, have had food, and the cake was not a lie, and got my t-shirt and need to do X number of hours to have earned it, I think. I fear that I might not be able to afford to do enough work for a comp this year, which bothers me greatly. OTOH, at least I'm here! *wry grin* If you will be at Arisia, know well that I will desperately need backrubs Lots of them. By the score, in fact! Sitting next to Ian in the hotel room, whilst he reads a funny web comic. ....

There. We're all in the room, all playing with our computers. Go figure! ;-) We'll need to make up serious time volunteering later if we can... but right now I'm just tired, and everyone is trying to eat my brains!!! ;-)

Jan. 11th, 2009

Wooozy

location: Home

mood: dizzy

For some reason I just started to feel woozy about half an hour ago. I hope that it isn't the vicodan I took, since that would mean that I shouldn't take it while Jeremy's at work. Then again, I'm nearly OUT of the vicodan, which is a bad thing, since I expect to be somewhat overwhelmed with pain and/or disoriented during various parts of the weekend.

OTOH, I've had a good reading day: Finished "Neptune Crossing" by Jeffrey Carver, which I should have finished AGES ago. Glad I finished it. :-) Anyone have the next few for me to read? ;-) (I could borrow them, or take them off of your hands, whichever....) Received three back issues of National Geographic magazine, the October, December, and January issues. I need to find November's somewhere, or, if all else fails, borrow it from my chiropractor. Started Time magazine, but I think I'll end it at the end of this article about Borderline Personality Disorder. Still to read: Vermont Life magazine, Popular Science, and Mac|Life (which needs, desperately, to be renewed, if I can just find the money...)-: Need to remember to bring some back issues of Opera News off to a friend, possibly at Arisia, possibly just find a safe place to stack 'em for now. Read a 'couple catalogs, as wel. Now I need more pre-Arisia reading materials. :P

My sister already asked me what I want for my birthday...truth is, I have not a clue in the sky as to what I want, other than nearly everything. ;-) Why can't she just go look at my wish lists? It's not like I don't have the damn things everywhere! ;=)

Jan. 4th, 2009

Good-oh!

location: Home

mood:

curious

I seem to have no infection left, from what the doctors could see, anyway. My joints and back continue to be quite annoying, so hopefully I can see the chiropractor ASAP during the week. Seeing the pain specialists on Thursday, I think, so we'll see what they are going to do next for me. So other than severe pain, I have a clean bill of health.

Been futzing around with installing Spore. It looks like it's going to be a LOT of fun. :-)

Jan. 3rd, 2009

Squee!

location: Home

mood:

awake

music: Red Right Hand-Vixy & Tony-Thirteen

My ankle isn't broken, and more importantly, in a strange way, my laptop is HOME!! This means that I shouldn't be online, paradoxically, simply because I have an 11am appointment at my GP's office. Checking on the state of infection, if any is left, in my leg, which, obviously, we all hope there isn't. So I'm heading to bed, spent most of last night and today there after the NYE/Day party at The Buttery, which was delightful!

Dec. 28th, 2008

Laptop off being repaired...

music: Hmmm... Krulwich on Science podcast.

I have, for the time being, an account on Jeremy's computer. However, I can only use this when he's not home or he's asleep, so don't expect to hear much from me on Wed. or Thurs. (his usual weekends) We are hoping that a friend will get us to a New Year's party, so y'all might see me at some point, depending on what the orthopod thinks of my ankle. (need to remember to call on Monday!)

The presents from my family were unexpectedly overly-modest... I mean, did I really WANT a box of kleenex and breath mints, even if I DID get a pretty outfit from my sister (which will probably premiere at Arisia), and a nice check from my dad (given the circumstances of the economy.)Dinner, however, was fantastic.

Jeremy's family was sweet and got me a really nice jewelry box that is like a mini-armoire for jewelry. I had asked for one, but didn't expect such a big one! Our other presents were quite delightful, including a signed calendar and two mouse pads that his sister and brother-in-law found at King Richard's Faire. :-) Pretty gifts. :-)

Wandering the Cambridgeside Galleria on the 24th was horrid! (needed glasses repaired, as we were also there to diagnose the damn computer). Necessary, but did cut in on the time to my sister's house, so we were an hour late. Ugh. I hate being late.

Tags: health, holiday, laptop

Dec. 22nd, 2008

Computer broken!

location: Home

mood:

awake

music: ceiling fan

My laptop's video card has given up the ghost, so if anyone needs me for anything, it'll have to be by telephone. Jeremy may let me log in through his computer again, but I don't want to push my luck! :-)

Merry Solstice, Happy Holidays of all sorts to everyone!

Dec. 18th, 2008

Meme thing

location: Home

mood:

anxious

music: Cantique de Noel (O Holy Night)-Mannheim Steamroller-A Fresh Aire Christmas

This one wasn't entirely fair, since I'm predjudiced toward Asian women to start with...but it was fun!

Your result for Style Up Through The Extremes Test...

CLOUD

7 casual, 5 cute, 3 feminine and 11 avant-garde!

Your style changes as often as your mood, still it manages to stay fresh and vibrant all the time. You follow your intuition to create your outstanding looks; you can combine anything with almost everything. You prefer to play with different textures and shapes and to accentuate it with artistically chaotic details. You’re the person who may be an aspiring designer or stylist as well. You’re highly creative, one day you’re hippie, the other day you’re a glamorous diva. And then you suddenly get bored by all of these transformations and your style becomes a bit messy. Try to clearly distinct your likes and dislikes and to be more predictable at least on Mondays and Fridays. You’re generally friendly and know a little bit of everything. It’s hard for you to focus on only one thing or one person. Work on being more decisive.

If you believe she’s the right girl for you, be prepared for any adventures. She likes traveling and learning something new. Invite her to a have a trip or drive, plan everything in advance, she may be too lazy to do anything at all. Or she may come up with radical ideas like biking instead of taking a plane. You will be surprised how very informed on almost every subject she is. She likes arguing, be ready to discussing with her politics, marketing, underground music, eco fashion or nanotechnology. She’s smart and unpredictable. Try to learn something what she doesn’t know yet or master several extraordinary skills like dancing or martial arts. That will impress her. If you will try to become more educated or skilled, she will definitely appreciate your efforts in many pleasant ways.

Take Style Up Through The Extremes Test at HelloQuizzy

So it wasn't entirely fair, but I think it pointed out something interesting. I'm just not certain that it's the right interesting...:P

Tags: strange colored print...

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Please....

location: Home

mood:

anxious

music: O Jesulein Süss BWV493-Choir Of King's College, Cambridge & Stephen Cleobury-Classic Christmas Carols

Think of me on Thursday around noonish, as at 11am I'll be going in to Union Hospital's Day Surgery unit for the full series of cortisone injections into my back. I'm scared about it, but just nearly fell down last night while my leg was numb, so sprained/broke/whatevered my left ankle by folding the leg forward over it. *ugh*

Many thanks to those who called with concern during the day today. Went to see the orthopedist this afternoon, and he isn't certain, although he was just apparently working from the radiologist's report as well as paper copies of the x-rays. Peculiar, that. So he's sending me for an MRI, to check the positions of ligaments and tendons, etc. to see...I am not sure what. But that's not until next Tuesday at 4pm.

In other things, I hope to have a brain by Saturday, or shortly thereafter. So, barring diagnosis, I will be going to my evil sister's house on the 24th, and somewhere with J'r's family on the 25th. Then, hopefully, I can catch up on sleep over that weekend. Hopefully! *wry grin* Also, I hope to be off of strong painkillers, so it might be more likely that I can drive and/or walk more places than before.

Anyone have anything fun listed that I could do on the Solstice?

Tags: back, cortisone, nervous

Dec. 12th, 2008

Another meme

You Are An ENFP

The Inspirer

You love being around people, and you are deeply committed to your friends.

You are also unconventional, irreverent, and unimpressed by authority.

Incredibly perceptive, you can usually sense if someone has hidden motives.

You use lots of colorful language and expressions. You're quite the storyteller!

In love, you are quite the charmer. And you are definitely willing to risk your heart.

You often don't follow through with your flirting or professed feelings. You break a lot of hearts.

At work, you are driven but not a workaholic. You just always seem to enjoy what you do.

You would make an excellent entrepreneur, politician, or journalist.

How you see yourself: compassionate, unselfish, and understanding

When other people don't get you, they see you as: gushy, emotional, and unfocused

What's Your Personality Type?

Meme thingie

location: home

music: ceiling fan. Don't know why I didn't turn some on for this, though!

Meme stolen from

mamadeb, as well as various other people along the way -I'll try not to tag the same people she did, but I can't always remember who is doing/did what.

The Rules- A:People who have been tagged may, if they so wish, write their answers in their blog and replace any question they dislike with a new, original question. Please italicize the question if you do that.
B:Tag eight people. Do try not to tag those who tagged you!

(addendum, I've futzed with the rules a bit. The original ones were more severe. I'm not in the mood for severe.

( Cut for Shortness Purposes )

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