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So I had to get up a 630 AM (about 2 hours before my usual wake up) to go 90 miles north to the neurologist. I woke up 20 minutes early. I'm lucky because at 7:20 AM my primary care doctor's nurse CALLS me. Are you fucking kidding? At first I thought something happened to my parents because no one calls this early and my phone doesn't tell you who it is until the second ring.

Why is she calling? Because she tracked down my thyroid scan and the doctor wants me to go see an endocrinologist and do I need a rec? (it should be in my file that I do not as I see one every 3 months). Now I'm late talking to her and the rains really sprouted the orange barrels this week. Holy crap. I still got there on time in spite of the fact I had to pull over on the highway because a fucking TICK was walking across my dashboard. Not today Satan.

And no one bothered to tell me don't go in the main door at the hospital. No I had to go around to a wing and to the basement but rather than say get in your car and go around they walk me all thru the hospital. And in spite of my appointment being 9 AM he was already 1 hour behind. He gave me his person cell if I want meds other than gabapentin for the trigeminal neuralgia (keep in mind I know his mother in law and wife so it's not that wild).

He agrees this is trigeminal neuralgia which he said "is known to be one of the worst pains you can suffer" (yes I shall agree). And he confirms what I knew. The main causes of this are vascular malformations (which my collagen disorder makes me prone to), aneurysms and tumors so I need an MRI of my head (yes, please, let's look at my jaw too) but he also said it's possible the thyroid goiter could be triggering this and I hadn't thought of that (even though it's on my test on thursday that thyroid affects neuro....)

I'm done with him so early I can't go to the Italian deli so I go back to Chillicothe and bumble around the mall until it's time for my vascular study which is a biggie this time, both legs...in a hot dark room with a former student. I'm half asleep (no, let's be honest I kept nodding off). From there I slid right into the vascular surgeon's clinic and he gave me good news. He thinks there's no way the symptoms in my leg are neurogenic claudication and that my stent is holding up so well that he's backing me down to once a year scans. YAY.

I even found time to go to Rost (I like their brown butter latte which yes has butter and yes it is delicious) Driving around Chillicothe however wasn't easy because Bridge street has 1001 red lights and the winds are 30-40mph and the redlights are bouncing so hard you can barely see them. Also I don't know what it is with this town but this is the third time in the last 6 months where I see one gas price that I'll go get gas after I shop and 45 minutes later it's changed. I didn't even notice until I almost pumped. Kroger's jumped 50 cents in that 25 minutes I was in there. Luckily other gas stations hadn't caught up so I got the cheap gas (by the time I left town an hour later they'd all jumped that 50 cents)

Rocket gave me a laugh tonight. He ate and wanted outside. I saw two kids under the age of 6 and told him he didn't want out. He didn't believe me. Ran out onto the porch took one look at the kids and noped his ass back inside until they were gone. (which also tells me that when he's been out there the kids have bothered him trying to play with him).

Four years ago I fell in my living room and altered the course of the rest of my life. I have spent every week since August in a clinic 2-3 days of that week, mostly as a result of this. This is as bad as it's been since the accident. The knee is degenerating but we knew that would happen. they told me that day 1.

I also know now that I will need to have more blood vessel surgery to keep this leg. The stent in the back of my knee will fail. The nerve is also having issues.

I am also very proud of how well I recovered. I'm back to hiking. I stand and walk every day. I dance. And I owe a lot to all of you for your support these last 4 years so thank you.

fandomtrumpshate bidding is open. How ironic is it the year I don't offer Prodigal Son someone else does (though they are Malcolm/Gil shippers, though they do Malcolm/JT whic I'm okay with) You can find my offering here. So if you know anyone who likes Hazbin Hotel point them this way. Heck ALL the fandoms, come check out all the offerings. There are so many fandoms they broke the tags. So far no nibbles on my offering, pouts but here's hoping.

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I love snow but even I'm tired of this.

Work went well but I was standing around talking to J and L when my knee gave way to the point I had to be sat down. The knee cap wasn't tracking but that happens with me and it's an easy fix. I didn't think much of it as I headed to Gallipolis.

I wanted to go to Aldi's. It's been there forever but it's also 20 miles from me so I wasn't sure I wanted to go there and then thought you'd dumb. You're in Gallipolis at least every other week (it's only 10 miles from work) Everyone told me how great Aldi's is.

Maybe...just not this one. The produce wasn't much better or cheaper than Kroger (the eggs were more) I don't eat a lot of frozen food or food in a box so that wasn't great. No pet section period. What it did have that I liked was cheese. OMG the cheese. My Kroger's cheese offerings suck ass. I have to go to the one in Athens 40 miles away if I want cheese that's not Kraft's or Sargento's.

I went for dinner fixings. Unless a cheese and olive plate is dinner I failed. I got a semi-soft coffee rubbed goat (yum), a soft everything bagel goat (YUM), a smoked gouda (good taste, weird texture) Wensydale of apricot and white chocolate (good but also weird texture) and halloumi 'fries' (didn't make them yet)

I went home and by dinner I realize something when I could see my knee...maybe I shouldn't have been walking that much. The scar is indented in badly. I'm like was that pop the fibular head breaking again? I'm neuropathic so I'm not going to feel it. Did the medial cartilage pop out and the knee has collapsed down on that side? Also very possible, hurts over there (that side has intact nerves) it's swollen. It's hurting a lot now. I will have to keep an eye on it. I should put ice on it but I keep forgetting to get it out of the freezer (eye roll)

I do have a story scene for spikesgirl58's 6 word challenge. The six words were
Precision, Strike, Mill, Cord, Way, & Recommend

( NSFW bondage/electroplay scene, will be part of something longer )

And here are the fannish 50 story recs of the week

the winner takes it all wip Hazbin Hotel

A Little TLC Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Always Be My Loser wip Hazbin Hotel

First Line Of Defence Torchwood

In a Family Way Man from Uncle

Vices and Virtues wip Hazbin Hotel

Here We Are at the Start
镇魂 | Guardian

On Valentine's Day FAKE

The Night Before 9-1-1

Confrontation and the Next Steps Teen Wolf

All I wanted to do was bleed. Otherwise known as I had my second knee injection. Once again the ortho is 1 1/2 hours running late so now it's after 5 pm. Half the staff has cut out. Then there's me going I hope this doesn't bleed like last time.

Doc - I missed the superficial varicosities.

Removes horse's leg of a needle and there's blood. Everywhere. He puts on pressure. Takes it off. BLOOD.

Doc - But I missed the vessels

Me - Yeah my body doesn't care. It will take every opportunity to be a giant jackass.

Took a good 10 minutes of pressure to stop bleeding. At least the gel didn't come back out like last time.



Other than that earlier in the day my students got a first hand view of the sympathetic nervous system at play. Understanding heart rate and breathing effects are easy. What's less easy for students is the liver makes sugars to fuel the muscles.

Well everything in lab went to shit today. Stuff was missing. Entire kits gone. My handouts from yesterday are gone. Other hand outs I forgot weren't group projects so I didn't have enough. Eye safety solutions are missing from the safety station (WTF happened in this lab when I was gone) roof is still leaking.

And I'm getting angrier and angrier. Me and Bruce Banner have the same issue: we're always angry. My sugar went from normal to 350 and of course the dexcom keeps ringing. So every time it alerts I held it up so the students could see the effects of the sympathetic system. Maybe they'll remember it now.


What I Just Finished Reading:

When the Bones Sing - YA horror set in Arkansas, looking at reviews either you loved this or you two starred it, no in between. I loved it.

You Must Not Miss - not a bad book but then it hits a wall in the last quarter. Did not like the ending at all

Ghost Lore - an iffy horror graphic novel, glad it's from the library


Mozzarella Murder - a mystery novella that I started and finished while waiting on the doctor. It fits a popsugar prompt and was free on Amazon. Worth what I paid for it. It's forgettable.

What I am Currently Reading:

Turn of the Screw - OMG how was this so inspiration to gothic horror? It is so dull.


Disco Witches of Fire Island - bizarre so far and fun but tinged with sadness. This is bringing up pain. I lost a lot of gay friends in the late 80s early 90s to AIDS and that is a deep current in this one

A Grim Reaper's Guide to Catching a Killer by Maxie Dara, having very mixed feelings. It's an interesting sentiment but the main character whines a lot and is so boo hoo everything I do goes wrong that she has a NAME for it (Sadim, the reverse of the midas touch)


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

Almost all of them bad.

Surprise 1 - someone threw up all over my new door mat outside, Rocket? the other outside cats? the neighbor's dog? All I know is my rug is trashed

Surprise 2 - that vomit was frozen to the rug so I tossed it out of the way as it's supposed to warm up a bit

Surprise 3 - I get to work and my students are bickering is my lab over at 11:50 or 11:15. One students said the former the other 11 said the latter. It's 11:50 but SOMEONE put it into our new class software wrong and now some of these students have an 11:30 class. OMFG. I said fine, don't drop it because usually they'll have time to get there (especially as small as this lab is) I tell everyone about this including the success coach who should have caught this (I don't register the nursing students) but I nicely said, 'all labs are 2 hours and hopefully with more eyes on this in the future this won't happen again if someone transposes a number in the software (i.e. you should have already known this)

Surprise 4 - race home because I have to drive to Chillicothe to have my first gel shot into my knee to try and keep it from a replacement soon. What isn't a surprise is FedEx still hasn't delivered my computer (was due here last Saturday) but what IS a surprise is the neighbor's new puppy is on my porch eating the vomit. (dogs, I love them but man they're gross sometimes)

Surprise 5 - An unplanned arthrocentesis. I mentioned to the nurse that my knee gave out after Christmas and bent backwards again and I've been having quadriceps tendon pain and pain in the anteriomedial aspect of the knee (which is where the cartilage is fucked anyhow) he tells the doc who goes 'let's see how swollen this is?'

Well we can't put the gel in with this much fluid in your knee, you okay with an arthrocentesis. Yep, I've had them before. ( cut for the needle phobic )

He gets the gel in and bandages me up. I had brought shorts to make this easier so the nurse steps out so I can dress and...blood and the gel pours out of my knee like a waterfall over my leg so I have to wait for him to come back and I'm like sorry I'm sitting here in my gutchies but as you can see. His eyes get huge and he gets sponges so I can put pressure on it. Next time in two weeks we're going to do this before I get off the table.

Surprise 6 - Tim Horton's is doing a chocolate covered strawberry latte for Valentine's Day. My local coffee shop does this and I wish it was every day. I love this and Tim's did a great job (this was the Tim's I 1 starred back in November) with this so yay for a good surprise

Surprise 7 - My computer was on the porch when I got home at 630. YAY. Surprise 7.5 - the put the computer ontop the monitor, double yay. I'm afraid to look to see if it's broken. I'll play with this tomorrow since it's like 15 out there and you can't turn on electronics that cold (well you could but it's a bad idea)


I didn't want to tag the reading meme into the sad post so...

What I Just Finished Reading:

The Lost House - icelandic noir arc, I liked the ending (literally the best part of the book)

Whisper of the Woods by Ennun Ana Iurov a graphic novel about the haunted Hoia Baciu forest in Romania, horror, a bit predictable


What I am Currently Reading:
The Lefthanded booksellers of London by Garth Nix - I wish I had time to just get into bed and read this in one go. Love it


When the Bones Sing - YA horror set in Arkansas, off to a great start (this is an arc)


The Busy Body - reading this for a popsugar prompt. I might take another stab at it if this doesn't get better soon. I hate the narrator



What I Plan to Read Next: just picked up Bluelock manga for the popsugar prompt of reading about soccer.

Yelp getting there just as the con opened worked. Of course I pulled into the furthest parking lot attached to the convention center (was I walking from home? Felt like it) but I crossed the con and got registered instantly and was then shunted into a line to...I had no idea (exhibition hall as it turned out so 45 minutes of standing there as my back is absolutely wrecking me.

This is literally the biggest exhibition room I've ever been in. Don't get me wrong I've been here before with Ohayacon before they went insane (illegal and mostly shut down) but they never had THIS much of it opened. I'm in heaven. While I was standing in line I alternated reading with calling Mom. 'Don't you spend money like it's monopoly money!' MooooooooM I'm nearly 60 years old. If I want to spend like a drunken sailor I will.

And I did. Holy crap. Do I need more Helluva Boss/Hazbin Hotel pins and keychains? Fuck no. Do I have them? Damn right. Do I have walls for more art? Fuck No. Did I buy wall art, tell me how was I supposed to pass up a 3-D art piece that is Cherri/Angel/Pentious in one view, Husk/Niffty/Alastor in another AND Charlie/Lucifer/vaggie in a third?

Bought fudge. They're from Pittsburgh. Now we're going there to get more fudge. I met up with my BFF from college and her child who was the one who wanted to come so bad. They dressed as Mimsy and Angel Dust. (I was Edalyn Clawthorne in her PJS)

That brings me to something I've noticed in the last year. It's only been a year since The Owl House has gone off air (well year and a half) and it's GONE from the dealers rooms. Now part of that is probably fear of Disney hunting them down and punishing them but I've noticed now more than ever fandoms fade FAST. Since Hazbin and Helluva Boss are hot there is stuff everyone. Very little anime was represented. pokemon was. Odd.

I only got to two panels, Thomas Lennon from Reno 911 (not that I planned on it but my friend was there because they went to the twilight panel (hard pass) and got front row seats and never left because after Thomas was the Hazbin Hotel cast panel which I wanted to go to as well. I was in the back and the Hazbin one was filling up so fast that I said leave me in the back. No doing. She came and dragged me to the front row (BtW Thomas was hysterical) and I'm glad she did. The cast was so much fun. The fans asking questions a wee bit less so. We're pressed for time just ask ONE question, no extraneous stuff. Everyone had extraneous stuff. Everyone is this is my first con thanks to Hazbin. Made me sad I wasn't in line to ask a question. 'hi I'm Dana this is my 38th year at cosplaying at cons....'

still the questions were fun and the cast was fun. Might even be in a picture. Certainly Alex Brightman has my face on his camera (hiya Beetlejuice!). Alex, Blake and Amir were absolutely hysterical and did the bulk of the answering. Lilli Cooper coming in a close second. Sam Haft (the man behind the music) was there, all shaky excited to see if Hazbin wins in the Billboard awards this week.

SO. MUCH. Hazbin cosplay. I'm sorry my Rosie isn't ready but someone (I didn't catch her dang it) cosplayed Susan which is SUCH a bit part but I'm glad someone did her. In many ways she's my spirit animal. Honestly get me a fox (fake) stole and a hat and I could use my eda outfit to play Susan. Here's susan (and the lady in red is Rosie who I want to cosplay)

.3

Someone I talked up everywhere. She crocheted her ENTIRE Fizzarolli outfit. It was stunning. (Pictures tomorrow. I am so very tired)

My friend's kid wanted to do the Hazbin Hotel group photo. We were too early so we did what she wanted: the pro wrestling they had going on. Things you might not know about me, I was crazy for WWF wrestling as a teen. Yes I knew it was fake and today I learned it looks even MORE fake in person. These were C lister wrestlers dressing up as superheroes to fake it out. I got to see Deadpool taking on Syndrome and Wreck It Ralph. Ghost Face and Captain Kirk went mano a mano (Kirk won) and how geeky are we all hearing like two seconds of music with 'Get Over Here!' imposed on it for all of us to scream as one 'SCORPION!' (Mortal Kombat) who duked it out with several others I can't even remember. and lastly there was a battle royale with the women, Rogue, Spidergirl (Gwen) Domino, Poison Ivy and someone with 1930s music and what might be a baseball outfit (Lucy?) that I didn't know. (Ivy won)

We were going to go to the Hazbin singalong but it was PACKED in a hot tiny room and it was now 630 so I said I'm out. good call because soon my knee did give out. If I do this again I'll get the attached hotel so I can go and rest as needed. The only panel I didn't go to that I might have wanted to was George takai's but I've seen him before.

My barista back home was performing music here. Said hello. He's probably wondering who is that old crazy woman.

the only bad note (other than my pain) was I was directed to the wrong elevator to the parking lot (I KNEW I hadn't seen that Starbucks on the way up) Luckily someone knew that I needed to cross the parking garage and bingo there was my car.

Came to the casino, had burnt ends at Brew Brothers. I should have gotten the ala cart sides (but didn't want to pay that for freaking beans or fries) because those burnt ends were basically an appetizer. Sigh. I wanted more but I left, went back to the same slot machine, doubled my money again, went back to Guy's place for an appetizer to top off that tiny meal. Calamari frito miso. Worth every damn penny (I did pass on their 14$ cannoli) they even thinly sliced lemons and deep fried them too and gave me the juiciest charred lemon to squeeze all over that yummy yummy calamari. Mmmm tentacles.

Now I'm in the hotel with my leg and back suing me for divorce. Still all in all a great day.



Advent Joy

Write down something positive that happened today. Ha my ENTIRE post is this

No tea today. I'll drink that tisane tomorrow evening

No lie. It was very rainy today and the meterologists were off again. 57 today? Nope, never got over 44 but eh I'm okay with the cold (my knee says I'm nuts) On the way home in the rain the rainbow literally ended before me on the highway...

So I did spend a lot of money today on the car (oil/air filters) but that's done for now I drive so much so money well spent.

I saw the vascular surgeon. Good news: exactly as I read the report, my leg is fine. Bad news: he says you know stents fail.

Me: yes it's inevitable

Doc: it's behind your knee where it should never be but with the trauma there's no choice

Me: yeah I figured that (it is of course constantly being bent and kinked and even lying in bed, it's caught between the meat of my leg and the mattress)

Doc: We'll eventually have to fix it to save the leg. It'll be better to not replace the stent but bypass it

Me: Oh, okay (that's a surprise)

Doc: DO NOT do anything about your varicose veins. We're going to need those later to build a new bypass for your leg (or we'll have to go digging in your arms)

Me: ah...that's news to me. Okay sure.

Doc: Leaving you on every 6 months for dopplers.

Me: fine.

I'm okay to fly. No need to worry about the one blocked (trauma) artery as it is collateralized and I asked about neurogenic claudication. The back doc will deal with that but it often DOES NOT require surgery but rather injections (of what I do not know)

Then I go home and once again Medical Mutual proves to be the worst insurance on the face of the planet. After going thru 6 weeks of PT at their request, the once again denied the MRI to find out what is causing blood flow to my leg to stop saying it's not medically necessary because I didn't do any PT or drugs. Meanwhile yes I have. Calling them tomorrow but this insurance is good for one thing: making whoever has it feel hopeless. The only excuse I can think of is maybe the PT people haven't billed them (I need to go check)

I can't go on NSAIDs like they want because I'm on blood thinners (one is a NSAID). You add higher dose NSAIDs to that I can have a GI bleed, kidney damage or a hemorrhagic stroke and if these decisions were being made by doctors instead of bean counters this would not be an issue.


And for fannish 50 here are more recs and some vids

Sometimes you just have to laugh at your fandom and we have Honest Trailers to help us do that. Towards the end of this one I felt very called out when it puts up the 'please clap' signs because dammit if I didn't when I saw this at the theater.


Black Gryphon dropped a new Alastor song. Like I said I am in awe of how many fan songs I see these days (I mean we had filk songs back in the day but they weren't nearly as common as songs are now) Here's the new one, not quite as good as the first IMO but I liked it.

and I think I've shared the first one before and honestly I'm with the people calling for this one to get professionally animated (like Addict did)



Hope Can Be A Cruel Gift ~ Art The art for my Hazbin Hotel big bang

Claws Out Hazbin Hotel wip

Do You Remember? Torchwood

There's No Going Back Now Deadpool/Wolverine

The Scent of You The Owl House

Braids Final Fantasy

...well, better than the alternative Hazbin Hotel wip

Family Movies Teen Wolf

Things Unsaid Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Coming Down Hazbin Hotel

Sharp-Dressed Man FAKE

Love Can Be Dangerous Stargate Atlantis

Coping Torchwood

Everything's growing in our garden (They don't have to know that it's haunted) The Owl House

Root of Evil The Owl House

[ART] Is that all you've got? Deadpool/Wolverine

The Other Ianto Torchwood

The Truth Will Set You Free The Owl House

Raven's Wisdom The Owl House

now the need is met 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

Consulting with New Friends Teen Wolf

It started out badly. I called home to see if Mom was feeling any better only to find out my brother was in the hospital secondary to his autoimmune issues (He's okay, probably home tomorrow). And then my legs went numb and I nearly fell exactly where I fell last time. Luckily I caught myself this time but all the muscles are sore.

Made it to my own doctor's appt for the knee. After talking with him about the physical therapy where I did it all, for an hour at a clip without symptoms yet was symptomatic upon walking across the parking lot to the clinic, he thinks (I agree) that it's much more likely stemming from my back and not from my stent which...isn't the best news. A stent can be replaced, pressure on nerves is much touchier. They weren't keen on me leaving as my blood pressure was only 104/61 and i'm like dudes, I'm fine. This is after nearly falling AND driving an hour.

From there I finally went back to Hopewell Culture National Historical Park which I haven't gone in years in spite of it being like 2 miles from where I am all the damn time. This is a mound site. It is interesting to look at but again, not striking, not really until you realize how much earth these people moved. (Also got bunnied for a story there learning they built at WWI military camp on the site and nearly destroyed it all) I wandered there for an hour.

Hit all the stores. This Big Lots still had all the big animatronics but where am I going to store that? I didn't know so I didn't buy. TJ Maxx was 100% Christmas decorations all ready with what was left of halloween heaped on one table (not on sale) Spirit Halloween did replenish their spooky dolls (they were about out when I was there last week) but then the price was more than I wanted to pay so...

I did write a thing that filled SO many of my open challenges. It's the first of the whumptober ones I wrote (I am not that moved by it this year) This isn't all that whumpy either but eh, someone's bleeding. Close enough.


Title: Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers


Summary: Angel was looking forward to his shopping trip with the visiting Fizzarolli but then his brother crashed the party, seeking a better relationship after seeing Angel fighting off the exorcist angels and realizing he’d nearly lost his chance. Poor Husk gets roped into the impending disaster which goes far worse than any of them could guess when some sinners see two celebrities on the street and dollar signs flash in their eyes.


Author Note - This was written for spikesgirl58’s six word challenge. The words were Alley, Social, Undertake, Stepstool, Ladder & Railroad for whumptober 2024’s prompt #15 childhood trauma – I did good right?, for allbingo’s prompt of Silence of the hams and for the lyrical titles prompt of Song with multiple singers on the track and I used Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers by ZZ Top

( story under here and at the above link )

And here's the fandom recs for this week.


Work Trip Fake

[ART] Poolverine Pups Deadpool/Wolverine

Ever After Torchwood

Lost in the dark Call of Duty

It was supposed to go this way: 1. see the vascular surgeon 2. have them move me to one visit a year instead of two. 3. know I'm kidding myself because of the claudication symptoms. (pain and numbness in my leg with exercise, gets better with rest)

How it went: 1. even before I tell him about the claudication symptoms he says there is some signs of increased velocity thru the stent indicating it might be clotting up (which happened last year too) so I can't be moved to one visit a year 2. Explain that his nurse never called me back after multiple tries so I could tell him Dr. L thinks I have neurogenic claudication.

He is doubtful (because it's not equal in both legs and he has a point...maybe unless there's only pressure on one side) but he is concerned (forgotten is the fact I didn't go for the varicose vein testing or why because it's no longer important).

So now I have to go for an angiogram and they set that up to be sure that the stent is functioning and that collateralization of the blood vessels (i.e. vessels around the injury taking up the slack) is good.

I went off on my day but tonight I was thinking about this and going 'I know it's been nearly 25 years since I've seen patients but wasn't this a big deal?' I looked it up. Between Mayo and Cleveland clinic a) I need a drive b) pressure and bed rest is required for 5-10 hours so I need to know (if someone doesn't call me soon I'll call next week) am I staying at the hospital for the night? If not can I sit in a car for the 80 mile drive home?

Sigh.

I was also frustrated in my attempt to donate my clothing. The veterans boxes were ringed by bags (which is not allowed) AND furniture (which they don't even take) so I came home and asked local friends for other options.

In an attempt to distract myself I ended up buying tombstones at TJ Maxx (all I really wanted to do was pee and they have an easy to get to bathroom) and then I went to the Hopeton Earthworks.

In nearly 20 years I never went to these ones in Chillicothe. It was literally 2 blocks from Spirit Halloween (which I drove on past!!) It was a short walk on a nice flat mulched pathway through the woods to get to the site and if I didn't know what it was I'd just think it was some small hills in a field. No historical markers or any context sadly (there is a much bigger site in Chillicothe that I need to revisit) I'm glad I went but I also don't feel the need to return.

I did go to the new Mexican place in Jackson (after saying I wouldn't) only to learn it was identical to the one in Gallipolis. Sigh. Nothing new or exciting there. It's good mind you.

The good news is my blood pressure was back to normal (for me) 100/60. And I got the graphic novel I backed on kickstarter, some steampunk thing. I'm really looking forward to reading it.

I do have pictures and a fannish 50 in mind but I need to wait until my head is better

So today was PT. I was a bit of a snarky ass on the forms. 'goal for PT' - to get my insurance to PAY for my MRI (and balance/leg strengthening) Even she was appalled by the fact I get 20 PT visits a year (not per injury which Mom keeps insisting on. I'm like NO) and I will need 12 of them to get the MRI approved leaving me nothing much if I need surgery (I won't do it this year for many reasons, this is one of them) I explain the injury, the thought this is neurogenic claudication, that my muscles are tight AF and we do the stretches they want. I can do them all with ease but one. So...here goes 6 weeks of barely needed (I could literally do this crap at home and some of them I DO)

Before PT I went to the coffee house. I had gone on Saturday too and the german chocolate cake latte was divine. The ice matcha latte with house made elderberry cold foam sounded yummy but tasted a bit too much like latte and needed sweetening. The elderberry foam was neat and it was pretty but I won't get it again. I'm learning NO iced lattes for me. Heated milk I can digest with lactaid but cold milk is a problem.

I also ran into a student of mine who I wrote a letter of rec for a while back. Turns out she got a job starting next month...in Pittsburgh so I was trying to help her with things to do and where to look to live (the work told her Monroeville and I agreed with where she'll be working, don't want to live where my parents do and suck up Green Tree hill every day).

And my day started with calls to the insurance who COULD NOT tell me if they would pay for this PT clinic. They couldn't be sure of it. Nor could they tell me if they would pay for continuous glucose monitors. HOW do you not know? I'm like there's no way you know if you'll pay for gene testing right? Nope. I hate this insurance.


Let's continue with the Music Monday Alphabet theme with sharing songs that begin with a certain letter. Feel free to chime in with your favorite song(s) that follow the weekly letter. Hit me with your faves. This week's letter is Q (and I haven't even listened to your suggestions from last two weeks but we all know why. Keep those songs flowing)

there are so few I know and like that fit this I'm not even cutting it




Only including this one because it's not another 'queen' song and I remember my parents listening to it (and Quando is Italian for when)

now this one I truly loved back in the day