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bluedreaming) wrote2025-11-04 09:39 pm
bluedreaming) wrote2025-11-04 09:39 pmEntry tags:
fanworks alphabet meme
Okay so I know that I already posted about this meme, noting that I wanted to do it, but I spent so much work creating a spreadsheet of all my posted fic (+ fanart, fanpoetry and fanvids - basically anything where I picked the title, so no podfics) and figuring out formulas on LibreOffice that it feels like it deserves its own post!
And, even past that, I was already picking titles when I realized I was missing nine whole fics from my backup archive and had to go excavate them out of LiveJournal exchange communities...so I guess that's my reward for wanting to do this properly.
Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fanwork title? One fanwork per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’ (or their equivalent in other languages). Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fanwork count.( Read more... )
All in all, this was fun but surprisingly a lot of work. Now I can catch up and read everyone else's!
viridian5 (viridian5) wrote2025-11-03 11:54 pm
viridian5) wrote2025-11-03 11:54 pm
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We won't let you in
I didn't have a panoramic dental X-ray done today because this morning my dental office called at 9:40 am (regarding a 12:30 pm appointment) to tell me that Medicaid won't cover it until December 15. Do I still want to come in today to get it done and pay for it myself? NO.
They'll call me back in December to make a new appointment. Get your act together and stop wasting my time, Bell Dental.
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I've gotten two texts and one voice message from someone claiming to be with actual debt collector Unifin Inc. The texts and voice message don't give any details like how much money or whom. ( Read more... )
Hopefully if this is a real thing they will mail me something with details?
They'll call me back in December to make a new appointment. Get your act together and stop wasting my time, Bell Dental.
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I've gotten two texts and one voice message from someone claiming to be with actual debt collector Unifin Inc. The texts and voice message don't give any details like how much money or whom. ( Read more... )
Hopefully if this is a real thing they will mail me something with details?
Destiny (falkner) wrote2025-11-03 08:00 pm
falkner) wrote2025-11-03 08:00 pmEntry tags:
It's been 3000 years... or something like that.
I caved in and bought Pokémon Legends ZA after my brother texted to ask if I had it yet and if I could help complete his pokédex.
(Crazy how ass the quality of Switch screenshots is.)
I'm probably only about 6 hours in at this point, so I will refrain from story-related opinions, but I'm having a blast so far! Despite the fact that I hate real-time combat systems.
Also, playing this game sure made me realize that I remember fuck-all of the XY story-line.
(Crazy how ass the quality of Switch screenshots is.)
I'm probably only about 6 hours in at this point, so I will refrain from story-related opinions, but I'm having a blast so far! Despite the fact that I hate real-time combat systems.
Also, playing this game sure made me realize that I remember fuck-all of the XY story-line.
svgurl (svgurl) wrote2025-11-03 10:26 am
svgurl) wrote2025-11-03 10:26 amgift fic: it happened one night (diana/natasha)
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trickortreatex opened its collection a few days ago and this is what I got. :DTitle: It Happened One Night
Author: anonymous (for now)
Fandom: DCEU/MCU
Pairing/Characters: Diana/Natasha
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 959
Summary: Natasha meets Natasha. Well, not exactly. But that is how the story starts.
This was cute and fun!
Hopepunk Princess (adore) wrote2025-11-03 08:43 pm
adore) wrote2025-11-03 08:43 pm
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그 눈빛과 움직임
I travelled to Mumbai to attend the K-town festival. This is K-town 3.0, which means there was a 1.0 and a 2.0 (both of which I missed because I didn't even find out they happened in the first place, until now). There was no WAY I was missing this year's festival after finding out it happens.
I SAW TAEMIN LIVE. He just walked onto the stage and started performing Move (!!!!) with no preamble, no warning, no mic check. I went feral. He was wearing a tank top and a jacket/shrug that he kept shrugging off to show his arms and it was amazing. I've always thought, from videos of his performances, that he had breathtaking artisty and grace, stylistic movements all his own. But live, Taemin Hits Different. He was like a celestial being, whatever the male version of an apsara is.
I was suffering as a short girl who'd bought the cheapest tickets in the standing area way at the back, because random uselessly tall Indian guys kept blocking my view. Also people kept coming and going from the more expensive areas, walking in front of me or making me have to step back to make way for them. And when Taemin was due to perform there was a huge surge towards the barricade, so seeing him was harder than seeing the other performers. I was doing a lot of neck-craning and tiptoe-standing, and my shoulders ached.
However! It was all so surreal and such a dopamine hit! He was THERE. Taemin was there, he's REAL, y'all! Like, he might be a celestial fairy but he also, like, exists ON THE SAME PLANE AS ME. He performed Move, Advice, Deja Vu, Criminal and Sexy in the Air. Only five songs sobs BUT three of them are favourites of mine. I wish we got a whole concert of him but you know what. I'm so damn lucky I got to see him. I SAW HIM PERFORM MOVE LIVE. WHAT!!!
I posted a few clips in an Instagram post (Insta shortened all the clips, as Insta does, but it doesn't matter because this is just to document my ferality. Other people are sure to post actual fancams later.) You'll notice I couldn't hold the camera straight or steady or focused. Nor could I stop people blocking my camera with their whole heads. But you'll also notice I was shouting my head off cheering for Taemin and yelling the lyrics to his songs, which is the bit that I wanted to capture. I'M WINNING AT LIFE.
After the festival I felt this sense of wonder because Taemin is REAL and he's THERE, but I also felt an overwhelming melancholy. I was like, that was such a dopamine hit, what do you mean I can't do this every weekend? What do you mean that might be the first and last time I see Taemin live? K-pop acts almost never come to India… but maybe this is a sign times are changing. I don't know. I did a tarot reading about this and got the Ace of Cups, just a lot of feelings, big feelings. I love that I saw him, I'm sorry that I couldn't see him better, and I want to see him again and again.
I'm waiting for fancams of his K-town performance to be uploaded and then I'll share them here. In the meanwhile, if you're curious about just how ethereal he is live, this will give you an idea:
Going to talk about the other performers in a separate post because this post is already long and fulsome with Taemin squee.
I SAW TAEMIN LIVE. He just walked onto the stage and started performing Move (!!!!) with no preamble, no warning, no mic check. I went feral. He was wearing a tank top and a jacket/shrug that he kept shrugging off to show his arms and it was amazing. I've always thought, from videos of his performances, that he had breathtaking artisty and grace, stylistic movements all his own. But live, Taemin Hits Different. He was like a celestial being, whatever the male version of an apsara is.
I was suffering as a short girl who'd bought the cheapest tickets in the standing area way at the back, because random uselessly tall Indian guys kept blocking my view. Also people kept coming and going from the more expensive areas, walking in front of me or making me have to step back to make way for them. And when Taemin was due to perform there was a huge surge towards the barricade, so seeing him was harder than seeing the other performers. I was doing a lot of neck-craning and tiptoe-standing, and my shoulders ached.
However! It was all so surreal and such a dopamine hit! He was THERE. Taemin was there, he's REAL, y'all! Like, he might be a celestial fairy but he also, like, exists ON THE SAME PLANE AS ME. He performed Move, Advice, Deja Vu, Criminal and Sexy in the Air. Only five songs sobs BUT three of them are favourites of mine. I wish we got a whole concert of him but you know what. I'm so damn lucky I got to see him. I SAW HIM PERFORM MOVE LIVE. WHAT!!!
I posted a few clips in an Instagram post (Insta shortened all the clips, as Insta does, but it doesn't matter because this is just to document my ferality. Other people are sure to post actual fancams later.) You'll notice I couldn't hold the camera straight or steady or focused. Nor could I stop people blocking my camera with their whole heads. But you'll also notice I was shouting my head off cheering for Taemin and yelling the lyrics to his songs, which is the bit that I wanted to capture. I'M WINNING AT LIFE.
After the festival I felt this sense of wonder because Taemin is REAL and he's THERE, but I also felt an overwhelming melancholy. I was like, that was such a dopamine hit, what do you mean I can't do this every weekend? What do you mean that might be the first and last time I see Taemin live? K-pop acts almost never come to India… but maybe this is a sign times are changing. I don't know. I did a tarot reading about this and got the Ace of Cups, just a lot of feelings, big feelings. I love that I saw him, I'm sorry that I couldn't see him better, and I want to see him again and again.
I'm waiting for fancams of his K-town performance to be uploaded and then I'll share them here. In the meanwhile, if you're curious about just how ethereal he is live, this will give you an idea:
Going to talk about the other performers in a separate post because this post is already long and fulsome with Taemin squee.
Larry Hammer (larryhammer) wrote2025-11-03 07:34 am
larryhammer) wrote2025-11-03 07:34 am“dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains / and there’s no end in sight”
For Poetry Monday:
“I walked in a desert,” Stephen Crane
I walked in a desert.
And I cried,
“Ah, God, take me from this place!”
A voice said, “It is no desert.”
I cried, “Well, But—
The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.”
A voice said, “It is no desert.”
From his 1895 collection The Black Rider & Other Lines, published when he was 23.
---L.
Subject quote from Sprawl II, Arcade Fire.
“I walked in a desert,” Stephen Crane
I walked in a desert.
And I cried,
“Ah, God, take me from this place!”
A voice said, “It is no desert.”
I cried, “Well, But—
The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.”
A voice said, “It is no desert.”
From his 1895 collection The Black Rider & Other Lines, published when he was 23.
---L.
Subject quote from Sprawl II, Arcade Fire.
viridian5 (viridian5) wrote2025-11-01 10:13 pm
viridian5) wrote2025-11-01 10:13 pm
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Now what I see, is what I get
So life may have further blessed me for not having an uninsured dental X-Ray done for $150 in July (because Medicaid demanded more X-Rays for crowns to get approved but refused to cover the X-Rays and I said, Not today, Satan, I don't need that crown.) I told my dental office that unless I could get a guarantee that Medicaid would approve the crowns if I got the July X-Ray done, I wasn't paying to get an X-ray done. Of course they couldn't guarantee, so.
My dental office called today to say that Medicaid covers a panoramic X-Ray every three years, and I haven't had one done in three years. My dental office swears Medicaid is covering it, and I'm getting it done Monday, with them hoping this will get an affirmative on doing the crown.
See, if I did that X-ray in July (and probably still didn't get permission for the crowns because Medicaid sucks) and then found out today I could get a panoramic done now, I would be pissed. If the panoramic isn't enough to get approval on the crown, at least I didn't have to pay for the frickin' X-ray.
Hopefully the government won't continue to be shutdown for much longer and I won't lose my health coverage too.
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Overgrowth at the Mager site in (Lutheran) All Faiths Cemetery. So glad the ground crew took that tree out and knocked down and damaged Irving only for this to be allowed to occur. [/sarcasm] You can see Irving on the ground on the left. Shot 10/27/25.
Irving is still lying on his side on the ground seven months later, so I don't know how much more damage might have been done to him besides what's visible. They removed the broken-off pieces of his wing from the ground though. They're mowing the grass around him.
As a reminder, this is what Irving looked like in better days.
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I went to Stop & Shop Thursday specifically for their muffins. Fate said, Nah.
Shot 10/30/25.
The rainstorm had resulted in several massive leaks in the store. I had to walk carefully in some parts of the store because the floor was wet and slippery. The rainstorm also flooded one side of Union Turnpike that I didn't see in the dark until I was right on top of it and had to drive through.
My dental office called today to say that Medicaid covers a panoramic X-Ray every three years, and I haven't had one done in three years. My dental office swears Medicaid is covering it, and I'm getting it done Monday, with them hoping this will get an affirmative on doing the crown.
See, if I did that X-ray in July (and probably still didn't get permission for the crowns because Medicaid sucks) and then found out today I could get a panoramic done now, I would be pissed. If the panoramic isn't enough to get approval on the crown, at least I didn't have to pay for the frickin' X-ray.
Hopefully the government won't continue to be shutdown for much longer and I won't lose my health coverage too.
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Overgrowth at the Mager site in (Lutheran) All Faiths Cemetery. So glad the ground crew took that tree out and knocked down and damaged Irving only for this to be allowed to occur. [/sarcasm] You can see Irving on the ground on the left. Shot 10/27/25.
Irving is still lying on his side on the ground seven months later, so I don't know how much more damage might have been done to him besides what's visible. They removed the broken-off pieces of his wing from the ground though. They're mowing the grass around him.
As a reminder, this is what Irving looked like in better days.
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I went to Stop & Shop Thursday specifically for their muffins. Fate said, Nah.
Shot 10/30/25.
The rainstorm had resulted in several massive leaks in the store. I had to walk carefully in some parts of the store because the floor was wet and slippery. The rainstorm also flooded one side of Union Turnpike that I didn't see in the dark until I was right on top of it and had to drive through.
Zhelana (zhelana) wrote2025-11-01 11:51 am
zhelana) wrote2025-11-01 11:51 amEntry tags:
140 in 1400 List
Progress This Month
Exercise every day in 2025
Weight lift every day of 2025
Brush teeth 360 times in 2025
Shower weekly 2025
Art Every Day 2025
Write in Spanish every day of 2025
Finish my memoirs
Write weekly 2025
Work through a book of writing exercises
Read 2 pages of Spanish every day 2025
Clean 2 minutes per weekday 2025
Clean 10 minutes per week 2025
Cook 12 times 2025
Watch a video in Spanish every week 2025
Watch a video in Russian every week 2025
Read 3 science textbooks
Read 3 social science textbooks
Read 3 history textbooks
Work through 3 math textbooks
Go to temple 12 times in 2025
Exercise every day in 2025
Weight lift every day of 2025
Brush teeth 360 times in 2025
Shower weekly 2025
Art Every Day 2025
Write in Spanish every day of 2025
Finish my memoirs
Write weekly 2025
Work through a book of writing exercises
Read 2 pages of Spanish every day 2025
Clean 2 minutes per weekday 2025
Clean 10 minutes per week 2025
Cook 12 times 2025
Watch a video in Spanish every week 2025
Watch a video in Russian every week 2025
Read 3 science textbooks
Read 3 social science textbooks
Read 3 history textbooks
Work through 3 math textbooks
Go to temple 12 times in 2025
ice cream (bluedreaming) wrote2025-10-30 02:45 pm
bluedreaming) wrote2025-10-30 02:45 pmEntry tags:
❎🎉
Instead of doing what I should be doing, I’m doing prep-prep-prep work for the fanworks alphabet meme (update: finally completed here) and mentally screaming because I found my x!!!!! Digging through the vault was not in vain!!!!
(I’m also finding some truly bizarre titling choices; truly my brain in 2015 was sleep-derived and stress-wired and assuming connections and references would be clear…and they are not.)
(I’m also finding some truly bizarre titling choices; truly my brain in 2015 was sleep-derived and stress-wired and assuming connections and references would be clear…and they are not.)
echan (echan) wrote2025-10-28 06:40 pm
echan) wrote2025-10-28 06:40 pm(no subject)
I have spent the last week reading up on in-car technologies. I thought I had been paying attention the past 15 some odd years, but apparently I managed to miss the majority of the details. So here's a somewhat opinionated summary of what I've learned.
CarPlay (iPhone) and Android Auto (Android) let you use your smartphone on the car's infotainment screen. In the stone age you'd use a RAM mount on the dash to look at your actual smartphone screen. Now that cars have cameras and massive infotainment screens built-in, I guess it seems like a waste to not use that screen for your phone.
Android Automotive is a version of Android that IS a car's infotainment software. Considering how much people want to replace the car's native infotainment software, I guess it's not surprise that some car makers go for this option. Its got the usual android app permissions model. There's even an app store; only specific apps are supported, but that support extends pretty far, and includes "I swear I'll only use this in a parking lot" games like Candy Crush.
Android Automotive has multiuser support, via profiles. There's also a guest user profile, which seems like just another profile, but settings changes made to the guest user don't seem to persist, and get reset when the car is turned off. The active user profile can be changed at (mostly?) anytime; there's some lockscreen-style security options for auth when switching profiles that I haven't tried out yet.
It seems like profiles should be able to manage a whole bunch of settings. But actually... I have no f'ing idea what they manage because all I seem to find is exceptions. Ex: my car has an audio app, that combines AM/FM radio with SiriusXM and playing from USB. Every time I get in the car it forgets what I was listening to, and one time even forgot I had turned it off. Additionally, most (but not all!) of the settings that directly affect how the car drives are not even accessible from the infotainment screen's settings menu, they're only available from the speedometer screen's settings menu, and (AFAICT...) don't care about user profiles at all. So far the only setting I'm positive the user profile manages is the choice of animated background wallpaper for the speedometer screen. (WTH to every part of that sentence.)
I fully expect to spend at least another two months figuring out how to work everything in this car.
CarPlay (iPhone) and Android Auto (Android) let you use your smartphone on the car's infotainment screen. In the stone age you'd use a RAM mount on the dash to look at your actual smartphone screen. Now that cars have cameras and massive infotainment screens built-in, I guess it seems like a waste to not use that screen for your phone.
Android Automotive is a version of Android that IS a car's infotainment software. Considering how much people want to replace the car's native infotainment software, I guess it's not surprise that some car makers go for this option. Its got the usual android app permissions model. There's even an app store; only specific apps are supported, but that support extends pretty far, and includes "I swear I'll only use this in a parking lot" games like Candy Crush.
Android Automotive has multiuser support, via profiles. There's also a guest user profile, which seems like just another profile, but settings changes made to the guest user don't seem to persist, and get reset when the car is turned off. The active user profile can be changed at (mostly?) anytime; there's some lockscreen-style security options for auth when switching profiles that I haven't tried out yet.
It seems like profiles should be able to manage a whole bunch of settings. But actually... I have no f'ing idea what they manage because all I seem to find is exceptions. Ex: my car has an audio app, that combines AM/FM radio with SiriusXM and playing from USB. Every time I get in the car it forgets what I was listening to, and one time even forgot I had turned it off. Additionally, most (but not all!) of the settings that directly affect how the car drives are not even accessible from the infotainment screen's settings menu, they're only available from the speedometer screen's settings menu, and (AFAICT...) don't care about user profiles at all. So far the only setting I'm positive the user profile manages is the choice of animated background wallpaper for the speedometer screen. (WTH to every part of that sentence.)
I fully expect to spend at least another two months figuring out how to work everything in this car.
ice cream (bluedreaming) wrote2025-10-28 04:09 pm
bluedreaming) wrote2025-10-28 04:09 pmEntry tags:
planning for the fanworks alphabet meme/game
I’m borrowing this, slightly tweaked, from noxelementalist—thanks!
I actually can’t do this right at the moment but I want to! Also, I’m not sure about multivoice podfics: exclude if I’m not the organizer, or leave in?
Oct 30 update: …I keep thinking about this and realizing I need to create a whole list with all my fanworks because I have them on too many platforms…
Nov 4 update: finally complete!
noxelementalist—thanks!Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fanwork title? One fanwork per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fanwork count.
I actually can’t do this right at the moment but I want to! Also, I’m not sure about multivoice podfics: exclude if I’m not the organizer, or leave in?
Oct 30 update: …I keep thinking about this and realizing I need to create a whole list with all my fanworks because I have them on too many platforms…
Nov 4 update: finally complete!
Larry Hammer (larryhammer) wrote2025-10-28 07:57 am
larryhammer) wrote2025-10-28 07:57 amEntry tags:
“using symbols using words / can be likened to a deep sea diver / who is swimming with a raincoat”
Book meme via naraht and others: The Seven Deadly Sins of Reading —
Lust, books I want to read for their cover:
- The Moonlight Mistress, Victoria Janssen
- The Beauty’s Blade, Feng Ren Zuo Shu
- Heavenly Tyrant, Xiran Jay Zhao
Pride, challenging books I’ve finished:
- Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
- Gravitation and Cosmology, Steven Weinberg
- 古今和歌集 (in the original)
Gluttony, books I’ve read more than once:
- Persuasion, Jane Austen (and the rest of Austen, but that the most)
- The Unknown Ajax, Georgette Heyer (and several other Heyer, but that the most)
- Protector of the Small, Tamora Pierce (and Circle of Magic, but that the most)
- Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin (and several other Le Guin, but that the most)
(and many many more …)
Sloth, books on my to-read list the longest:
- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Titus Alone, Mervyn Peake
Greed, books I own multiple editions of:
(not counting multiple translations of the same work)
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
- The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
Wrath, books I despised:
- The Jade Mountain, tr. Witter Bynner
- A Hundred Verses from Old Japan, tr. William Porter
- Outlaws of the Marsh / Water Margin
Envy, books I want to live in:
- Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Annals of the Former World, John McPhee
- Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Hokusai
Actually, just replace the other two with Always Coming Home a few more times.
---L.
Subject quote from I Want You, Savage Garden.
naraht and others: The Seven Deadly Sins of Reading —Lust, books I want to read for their cover:
- The Moonlight Mistress, Victoria Janssen
- The Beauty’s Blade, Feng Ren Zuo Shu
- Heavenly Tyrant, Xiran Jay Zhao
Pride, challenging books I’ve finished:
- Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
- Gravitation and Cosmology, Steven Weinberg
- 古今和歌集 (in the original)
Gluttony, books I’ve read more than once:
- Persuasion, Jane Austen (and the rest of Austen, but that the most)
- The Unknown Ajax, Georgette Heyer (and several other Heyer, but that the most)
- Protector of the Small, Tamora Pierce (and Circle of Magic, but that the most)
- Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin (and several other Le Guin, but that the most)
(and many many more …)
Sloth, books on my to-read list the longest:
- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Titus Alone, Mervyn Peake
Greed, books I own multiple editions of:
(not counting multiple translations of the same work)
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
- The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
Wrath, books I despised:
- The Jade Mountain, tr. Witter Bynner
- A Hundred Verses from Old Japan, tr. William Porter
- Outlaws of the Marsh / Water Margin
Envy, books I want to live in:
- Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Annals of the Former World, John McPhee
- Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Hokusai
Actually, just replace the other two with Always Coming Home a few more times.
---L.
Subject quote from I Want You, Savage Garden.
viridian5 (viridian5) wrote2025-10-27 10:48 pm
viridian5) wrote2025-10-27 10:48 pm
Entry tags:
Ongoing
Recently the one-year anniversary of owning my Kia Forte and the 19-year anniversary of my brain surgery passed.
During last week's pain management appointment, my doctor brought two trainees/interns in and asked me if they could sit in on our consultation. When I said yes, I didn't realize I'd have to explain some things to them about Chiari I malformation, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, my brain surgery, and other ideas/procedures floated to treat me. It didn't help that I forgot the word "vertebrae" during the surgery talk and had to tell them that some of the small pieces that jut out of my spine were shaved down to make more room for my brain. When my doctor asked if they had questions, the woman asked if any other things were suggested to treat me, at which point I told her traction made things so much worse and I absolutely refused to get my neck fused as a result. (She also thought people realized they had Chiari just in childhood, and I had to say that if it doesn't become obvious in the victim's childhood, it often does in your 30s, which it did for me.)
Then an office worker came by to say there was food in the kitchen area and the two immediately disappeared for it, mid-consultation, while I and my doctor exchanged a "looking into the camera on The Office" look.
I told him that I sometimes get numbness, pain, or a burning agony on the front of my left thigh, which he said came from the spine, like the L3 area, and suggested I do certain stretches for it. The office had me take a cognition test, due to possible side effects of some of the medications I'm on, and I scored average in most areas and above average in one. I discovered during it that I can memorize five numbers at a time but not six.
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The "check brake light" dashboard alert is once again randomly coming on and turning itself off in my Kia Forte. Having replaced a wire, which worked for seven months, and replaced the brake light bulb and cleaned its housing, which worked for three months, my mechanics have no other idea what to do, and I don't trust Huntington Volvo, where I bought the car, after they gave me this car with four rotting tires on it and refused to get back to me on anything. Thus, I'm living with the alert when it's there. The way it activates with a loud, distracting ~ding~ every time sucks.
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Since the government is still shut down, I'm not getting my November food money.
During last week's pain management appointment, my doctor brought two trainees/interns in and asked me if they could sit in on our consultation. When I said yes, I didn't realize I'd have to explain some things to them about Chiari I malformation, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, my brain surgery, and other ideas/procedures floated to treat me. It didn't help that I forgot the word "vertebrae" during the surgery talk and had to tell them that some of the small pieces that jut out of my spine were shaved down to make more room for my brain. When my doctor asked if they had questions, the woman asked if any other things were suggested to treat me, at which point I told her traction made things so much worse and I absolutely refused to get my neck fused as a result. (She also thought people realized they had Chiari just in childhood, and I had to say that if it doesn't become obvious in the victim's childhood, it often does in your 30s, which it did for me.)
Then an office worker came by to say there was food in the kitchen area and the two immediately disappeared for it, mid-consultation, while I and my doctor exchanged a "looking into the camera on The Office" look.
I told him that I sometimes get numbness, pain, or a burning agony on the front of my left thigh, which he said came from the spine, like the L3 area, and suggested I do certain stretches for it. The office had me take a cognition test, due to possible side effects of some of the medications I'm on, and I scored average in most areas and above average in one. I discovered during it that I can memorize five numbers at a time but not six.
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The "check brake light" dashboard alert is once again randomly coming on and turning itself off in my Kia Forte. Having replaced a wire, which worked for seven months, and replaced the brake light bulb and cleaned its housing, which worked for three months, my mechanics have no other idea what to do, and I don't trust Huntington Volvo, where I bought the car, after they gave me this car with four rotting tires on it and refused to get back to me on anything. Thus, I'm living with the alert when it's there. The way it activates with a loud, distracting ~ding~ every time sucks.
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Since the government is still shut down, I'm not getting my November food money.