Still no Linketies (brief life update)
Apr. 14th, 2012 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moominmuppetMy Gmail at work is still kerfucked, as is my home laptop, so my entire Linketies "process" (oh, it's a thing!) is hamstrung. I'm hoping for a fix Monday, but we'll see. This also means I'm hopelessly behind on Facebook, since I use notifications almost exclusively in order to keep up with folks (I basically set almost everyone as "close friend"). I hope all is well with everyone, and that I'm not missing anything too critical. I am still briefly scanning my email via my phone, so should see individual messages if they don't get too lost in the email backlog. All in all it's good timing, since I'm still hip-deep in my little documentation project and having fun being all obsessive about it.
Escorted this morning at Preterm with Chad. Unfortunately, I'd scheduled that before I knew I was working overtime today, so I'm about ready to fall over. 7am is not a good time for a second-shifter to start the day. Ouch. Only six more hours. *sigh* Also, today's been the achiest I've been since the med switch; four hours of walking in circles outside (the parking lot surrounds the building, so we get a lot of exercise following car after car in circles) combined with lack of sleep and impending rain can apparently still trigger it. Blarg. Still, massive improvement from the condition I'd be in with those stresses on the old meds, so I'll call it a win. Also, yesterday was the first day of the provigil, and today I'm definitely leaning on it hard. Pleased to find I was able to sleep last night despite concerns about that. I was particularly worried because I've been in an insomniac hypomanic spot for a few days now anyway; I was nervous the provigil might make it a lot worse. Unfortunately, that's one of the trickier balancing acts with the bipolar and the fibro. Too much fatigue and I can't function. Too much speed and I can trigger a hypomania that prevents me from sleeping and then triggers a fibro flare as a result of that. *eyeroll* So far so good, though.
Today seemed to be "bring your kids to the clinic" day. Since children aren't allowed past the first floor, there ended up being four or five kids and three adults sitting around being bored down there, and I had fun trying to entertain them a bit. Made faces through the window, dug out the Field Guides (not exactly children's books, but the best I could do at the time, and the animal pictures seemed to entertain them pretty well), and ended up deeply amusing the security guard with my rather animated retelling of "Three Strong Women" (it involved sumo stomping around the lobby) when one of the patients needed someone to watch her son briefly while she ran upstairs. All in all a good day, and it was good to see my Preterm folks again, even if I'm paying for the sleep-dep now.
Escorted this morning at Preterm with Chad. Unfortunately, I'd scheduled that before I knew I was working overtime today, so I'm about ready to fall over. 7am is not a good time for a second-shifter to start the day. Ouch. Only six more hours. *sigh* Also, today's been the achiest I've been since the med switch; four hours of walking in circles outside (the parking lot surrounds the building, so we get a lot of exercise following car after car in circles) combined with lack of sleep and impending rain can apparently still trigger it. Blarg. Still, massive improvement from the condition I'd be in with those stresses on the old meds, so I'll call it a win. Also, yesterday was the first day of the provigil, and today I'm definitely leaning on it hard. Pleased to find I was able to sleep last night despite concerns about that. I was particularly worried because I've been in an insomniac hypomanic spot for a few days now anyway; I was nervous the provigil might make it a lot worse. Unfortunately, that's one of the trickier balancing acts with the bipolar and the fibro. Too much fatigue and I can't function. Too much speed and I can trigger a hypomania that prevents me from sleeping and then triggers a fibro flare as a result of that. *eyeroll* So far so good, though.
Today seemed to be "bring your kids to the clinic" day. Since children aren't allowed past the first floor, there ended up being four or five kids and three adults sitting around being bored down there, and I had fun trying to entertain them a bit. Made faces through the window, dug out the Field Guides (not exactly children's books, but the best I could do at the time, and the animal pictures seemed to entertain them pretty well), and ended up deeply amusing the security guard with my rather animated retelling of "Three Strong Women" (it involved sumo stomping around the lobby) when one of the patients needed someone to watch her son briefly while she ran upstairs. All in all a good day, and it was good to see my Preterm folks again, even if I'm paying for the sleep-dep now.
