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Current Mood: supportive
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

grey853

When I last checked in, I told you about the heart cath and stent procedures I had toward the end of September after my heart attack. Well, that wasn't the end of it. I came home on Thursday and by that Sunday, I knew something was desperately wrong. I could hardly breathe and wanted to faint. I called an ambulance. The ER found that my hemoglobin was 8. It should be around 12. By the time they tested again an hour later, it'd dropped to 6. I had an internal bleed. Over the next four days, I received 4 units of blood and 2 iron infusions. I also had an endoscopy and found that I had 4 polyps in my stomach. That's where the bleed had been. The problem was with the blood thinners I'm on, they can't be removed at this time. So, I have to take special care about what I eat and take medicines to coat and protect my stomach.

I was sent home and then on the 22nd of October, I went in to get a Watchman device in my heart which will help prevent blood clots caused by my persistent AFIB/AFlutter. I'm now recovering from that procedure along with a TEE, which is a trans esophageal echocardiogram which made me feel like I'd swallowed a tree trunk. The point of doing this Watchman procedure was so that I could cut back on the blood thinners, down from three to one, which I have.

All in all, I've been saved twice this month by medical intervention and been in the hospital 12 days. Thank good I've got good insurance and praise the miracles of science.

I see the doctors again on the November 11 and December 16. The next step is to get an ablation which, fingers crossed, will stop the AFib/A flutter. But I can't do that until the heart heals from this last procedure, which is about 6 weeks.

All this is to say, I've not been writing. I'm spending my time recovering and trying to get as healthy as possible.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Current Music: "Go Easy on Me" by Adele

mark posting in

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Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

ride_4ever

obi_ki and her son Alan have been two of my Con*Strict friends. I've just today learned of Alan's death. Too sad for me to write more here but you can read about Alan's life and his family and his friends at Alan's obituary.

Current Mood: sad sad sad
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

sage

( books (De Nicola et al, Ben-Ghiat, Michelson, Thomson) )

healthcrap
The eye is gradually getting better but is still semi-borked. ( cut for mention of weight loss & nausea ) Also, I have some pain in the ass neighbors across the street who stay on their front porch day and night, talking nonstop en español, which is just on the edge of what I can't, at speed, distance, and through walls, understand. Though my brain keeps trying. Annnnd it all interfered badly with my sleep Sunday night. (I had to dig up my earplugs and I was literally *sweating* with aggravation.) OTOH, they have sort of respected quiet hours since late Monday. Trouble is, since the weekend, I'm not sleeping til after 4am now, even with it quiet. Even with going to bed at 9 and trying to read myself to sleep like usual. It's awful. I've already got a sleep disorder. I don't need this on top of it. /extended whine

yarning
Finished the calico cat stitch scarf, made a second one, sold it, and ~~started~~ finished a shorter one (~68-72 inches) in black (instead of taupe), cream, and orange. ( more yarning )

#resist
Nothing national scheduled yet. Mobilize has lots of small local things on their calendar, though.

I hope all of y'all are doing well! <333

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We have two works that so far have not received complementary claims for the due South/Canadian Six Degrees Big Bang. I know our extended schedule is running up against holiday exchanges, which makes signing up for this more complicated, but we have some really lovely primary works this year and I'd like everyone to get a complementary work if possible - so please, go take a look and see if there's something there that makes you feel inspired!

The unclaimed creators are Creator 1 and Creator 6 in the complementary claims post; complementary works would be due November 21 (with a mandatory checkpoint on November 1).

alierak posting in

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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

scriggle

Today I made baklava.

Haven't tasted it yet.

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This year's big bang has an extended schedule, so complementary claims are just opening - go check out the awesome primary works we have this year, and see if there's anything you're interested in claiming!

mergatrude

Wednesdays reads: I got a couple of Dymocks (bookseller) vouchers and treated myself to The Cat Who Saved Books and it's sequel The Cat Who Saved The Library, by Sosuke Natsukawa. Am enjoying the first. I'm also listening to The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle, the third book in the Edinburgh Nights series by T.L. Huchu, and read by Kimberley Mandindo. She sounds exactly like Ropa in my head.

Watching: Dude is making me watch Superstore (yay, Mark McKinney!) which is a lot of fun and also somewhat wince-inducing. We're at the end of S3. We've also been watching Lego Ninjago, which is ridiculous but I can't look away. I'm still a sucker for kids shows and this one has clever writing and the animation is fun.

Gaming: I'm slowly progressing with Ori and the Blind Forest, which is challenging but surprisingly I'm meeting the challenges. I also completed Monument Valley which was free from Epic Games last month. Dude traded in his X-Box X (because of Microsoft shenanigans with their online options) for a Play Station 5, and is loving it. He made me buy a controller and is making me play Sackboy: A Big Adventure, which is adorable! We're also going to tackle Cult of the Lamb in co-op mode.

Other: I've been on leave, so am making progress on my incredibly tedious sock yarn project, and am close to finishing one of the knit scarves I'm working on. I've also been doing a new jigsaw, and am now dealing with All The Leaves. ( It's very pretty. )

Daylight savings has kicked in and I've been going for a walk every evening after dinner. The weather is windy, but that's October for you. What isn't usual for October is temps in the mid-to-high twenties!

sage

( books (Osman, Kingfisher x 3, Mohamed, De Nicola) )

The Vampire Lestat NYCC extended trailer! <333

Watch on YouTube

yuletide
There's so much good stuff in the tag set, it took me forever to pare down my signup. I still might change it.

yarning
( so much yarning! )

rl
Speaking of spending money, I got a new laptop, as my old one is 7 3/4 years old and Win10. The old one still works mostly fine, thank Lenovo, but the Prime Day sale was too good to pass up. I've been working on getting all my old software transferred over. Slowly.

( healthcrap )

#resist
This coming Saturday: No Kings Day 2. If you're protesting, please stay loud and stay safe. I'm there with you in spirit, wearing an inflatable frog suit and passing out water. (The color for the protest is YELLOW, btw, but I like the inflatables. And I look like a zombie in yellow.)

I hope all of y'all are enjoying the Fall/Spring weather, such as it is so far, and that all is well in your worlds. <333

p.s. This No Kings icon is shareable. It and tons of other protest graphics are found here. Feel free to link & share!

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