cornerofmadness

At 630 I'm awoken by the sounds of the ocean...uh-oh. It sounds like a wash machine agitator on high. Yeah so a pipe has broken somewhere because it ain't raining/snowing that hard. I panic. MY HOT WATER TANK! wasn't that. OMG they'll need into the wall for the pipes (you can undo some screws in the computer room and do that) Guess what that is walled in by 1001 books and an equal number of stuffies and random detritus on the sleeper sofa in there. I must clean this.

I last until 730 when I say two things a) fuck it, let them throw me out for being a hoarder b) wait, it only took 1 hour to clean this? I've been avoiding it for 8 months. I text my landlord about this and go to work.

From there I go to the doctor's and that's when I have time to check my phone. My text didn't send (which happens out here, dead spots everywhere). I retext them and 'they'll check it tomorrow.' Look I'm not the one paying for the hundreds of gallons of water nor do I have to pa y to fix all the damage this is doing. I mean before the sump pump there was a lake under my bedroom complete with frogs. I'm used to living in hell. Rentals barely exist here so the housing prices are stupid for this very low income area.

Hope I can sleep because it still sounds like a laundromat under my bed. And now I'm wondering if they turned off the water on monday looking for a leak because I think it has been slowly leaking (sump pump turning on when it's not raining) and now it's broken entirely.


So if my doctor's new patient intake is going to be a thing for all hospitals I'm throwing myself off the roof. Holzer and King's Daughter really go whole hog on the how are you coping with life stuff vs asking about meds/new issues like my places up in Chillicothe but King's Daughter today asked me about falls at home. Am I safe at home? Do I have a home? Do I have food? Can I afford my food/home/meds? (what are you going to help? This is a Catholic system so maybe they DO help), we need to do a mini cognition (is this for everyone? I'm not even 60? Yes I whining about my memory a few days ago but still, this seems excessive) No lie she hands me a piece of paper and gives me three words to remember. Now draw a clock for me. Are you fing with me? So I do. Now draw in 11:10. ARGH. And the words are village, kitchen baby.

ANd then the nurse hands me release of records for CVS to get proof of vaccination. I am not lying I was with her longer than I was with the doctor and me and the doc were shooting the shit about being women doctors (since she asked about my research) and how badly we've both been treated by male doctors.

She is concerned about my neck and my issues of the chest pain/pressure relieved by coughing. She does think I'm probably right about the hiatal hernia so has kicked it back to me to get a gastroenterologist. She is concerned with the swelling on one side of my neck. Could be a lipoma Could be something with my thyroid. She did a chest x-ray to make sure that cardiomyopathy that killed my uncle isn't showing up there (it's not, I've already read the report) and I need a neck/thyroid ultrasound. My thyroid levels are normal.

I tell mom this and she goes you know your uncle (the one who's dying) has hashimoto's (no I did not) and your cousin (the one who was just diagnosed with alzheimer's) had to have part of her thyroid removed. Did not know that either. I'll call the doc and let her know.

I also don't know what is up with my blood sugar. Ate salad for lunch (with 4 strawberries) and my blood sugar is 350. Went for Mexican tonight and went ham on the corn chips. Blood sugar is 230. Why?

What I Just Finished Reading:
A Grim Reaper's Guide to Catching a Killer by Maxie Dara, it got better at the end but still gonna be another writerly ways coming out of this

Angels of death manga - meh

Rare Flavours - graphic novel set in India cw-cannibalism

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What I am Currently Reading:



Disco Witches of Fire Island -it's hard to say I enjoy this given the subject matter but I like these characters

Silent are the Dead - mystery, i think it's a little too heavily leaning on the last book (which I didn't read) but i'm only on chapter 3






What I Plan to Read Next: probably something from the popsugar line up plus the dozen arcs I have.