various life happenings

[flamingsword]

I'm taking Continuing Education Unit courses to renew my massage license, and this year I'm branching out into Manual Lymph Drainage because one of the other courses I took on Long COVID said that MLD helps with brain fog and possibly also with clearing viral particles and partially-digested microclots from the inter-cellular/interstitial fluid. We'll see how this goes. I'm going to try to go back to work for ten massage hours a week and see if I can recondition up to twelve or fifteen. *crosses fingers*

This weekend I will be driving out to west Texas, meeting Ghost's daughter whom he has not seen since she was 3 (long story), and possibly seeing his dad for the last time. :'( His health has not been great, and keeps taking turns for the worse. Ghost is worried and not sure what to do about this, but I got a second one of the end-of-life planners that I got for my mom last month, so that his mom and dad and I can start going through paperwork this weekend and organizing things for the eventuality of the worst happening. D':

In better news, the Bachelor's Grove knock-off I made for some of my friends has all been handed out now, as well as the homemade bluebonnet absinthe, which Bat loved. I made the Demeter scents "Glue" freebie I got into something that smells sweet like almonds, like over-ripe apples, and vaguely of jet fuel instead of glue somehow? Either way, I like it, and will be keeping and wearing it (as long as it doesn't attract mosquitos, that is, which is always a worry down here what with the Zika virus, West Nile, etc. being so highly transmissible in the summers). I may just have to wait 'til Fall to wear it.

Ghost has been playing the second Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild game and absolutely loving it and I'm hoping that this will be enough to help pull him out of the depression he has been in for a couple of years now. *fingers still crossed, crosses toes*

And I will be headed out of town to my uncle's memorial service in the Carolinas with my mom and stepdad at the end of May, then coming home and getting my old job back in early June, if possible. I will probably be driving the day of my birthyday, so if anyone has well-wishes for that, I will respond when I'm back in Dallas and not a passed-out pile of road-rattled bones.

Y'all have fun, okay?

Comments

[sabotabby]

Just so you know I wear it ALL THE TIME. I mean not at work but when I'm trying to impress everyone.

I hope the memorial goes as well as it can?

[flamingsword]

Huzzah! I hope it smells impressive on you.

And thank you.

[cassildra]

That sounds like A Lot overall, and I am sending hugs if you want. <3 I hope things go as well as they can, for all involved. With everything.

[flamingsword]

It might wind up being A Lot, but we’ll see. And thank you.

[princessofgeeks]

safe travels!

[flamingsword]

Thanks!

[ex_flameandsong751]

West Nile is everywhere [or almost everywhere in the US] now, I got it some years back when I was living in [Redacted-For-Opsec-Reasons New England State], because I am mosquito food. Definitely avoid getting it if you can. [Why yes, I have managed to catch H1N1, West Nile, AND COVID-19, but not all at once.]

-awkward noises of not knowing what to say about Ghost's dad besides "I'm sorry"-

Thank you for the heads up with the Carolinas trip late this month. Will you be available via e-mail, even if only briefly?

[flamingsword]

I got Swine Flu that one year that it was really bad (2008? 2009?) and I’ve had walking pneumonia twice, because I’m a stubborn idiot who doesn’t know when to stop, and one time in college I had to drop a semester because I got strep three times in the first four weeks of classes. Bodies. Bodies were a mistake; we should have stayed energy beings, etc..

Yeah, I don’t know what to say about Ghosts dad either. I’m going to put some thought into that on the drive out west, I guess. My general online expression of “I grieve with thee” is … probably not gonna fly with people who watched the original series of Star Trek in its initial broadcasting. They’re nerds, but they aren’t fans, so they might be offended instead of comforted, and that is the last thing I fucking want, you know?

Anyway. I will be available by email intermittently in late May/early June, and I should have a better idea of when as the date approaches.

[ex_flameandsong751]

Bodies were definitely a mistake. I've had walking pneumonia more than once, one of those times being con crud that turned into bronchitis that turned into pneumonia and is why Jon Does Not Do Conventions Anymore. Very not fun.

-hugs-

branching out into Manual Lymph Drainage

[rafiwinters]

That sounds cool--both your doing it, and the concept itself. It reminds me of some yoga twist poses, where you're supposed to visualize the spinal fluid getting freshly re-mixed and generally refreshed.

Thanks again for the link to that planner. I think I will get two of them (for me and for J) and then we can use those pages to guide us. I will, however, need to think of a good place to hide them from possible thieves so that those thieves can't get at our passwords and stuff--but a place that is also easy to find for our loved ones in case of need. Then I would tell our loved ones where the binders are.

ETA: just ordered two of said planners.

Re: branching out into Manual Lymph Drainage

[flamingsword]

I hope they bring y'all some preparedness and peace of mind.

Re: branching out into Manual Lymph Drainage

[flamingsword]

The lumbar spine twist is one of the positions it recommends for self-treatment exercises, for much the reasons you describe.

You are very welcome about the end of life planner; I hope it helps.

[noyeahtotally]

good luck with all and safe travels ❤︎

[flamingsword]

Thanks!