A February Sort of Mood
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awanderingbardI'm making it my goal this year to post at least once a month on here, so here I am for February.
January ended up being rather stressful. It's a complicated story, but the short version of it is my mum got a call back in December about an ultrasound she'd had as a part of a regular monitoring of her liver (she has Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in relation to diabetes) saying there was a 6mm high density area on it. Through a series of preventable but inevitable events given the state the healthcare system is in, we basically had to wait nearly two months to find out that it was...nothing. Literally nothing, as in, there was an error on the ultrasound image itself. Which, we found out from our GP when we finally got the results from a CT my mum had at the liver doctor's orders, the radiologist basically said when he read the ultrasound images and recommended just repeating the ultrasound in three months to see, but the liver clinic a) didn't bother to tell us that, and b) decided to do a CT instead. Also, despite the fact that Mum had the CT on Jan 17th, the liver clinic has never bothered to call to tell her the results. We had to call the GP two weeks after the CT to ask if she had the report. Mum was very chill through all of it, she was sure it was nothing from the off, but Dad and I are worriers, so it was hanging over us a bit. And waiting for the results was taxing. Two weeks is a long time. I'm glad that's all over with.
I've been in my post-Christmas slump, very tired from all the activity (and probably from the worry from the above). Also the weather has been very variable and I've had a migraine for about a week, a low level one where I'm functional but I have to squint to think and it's hard to read.
We got my bed fixed up now, though. I ended up putting the cover sheet on the floor and the slats from the broken bed on top of that, then my mattress on top of that. It's still basically on the floor, but the slats means it gets some air flow, and it's still very comfy and I'm sleeping well on it. We're going to try to decorate the rest of the room to make it look more natural and not like I'm a starving artist sacrificing furniture for my craft or something. And I made Mum a gorgeous hat, mitts, scarf set for a new coat she has. It's using this wool (the ocean jasper colorway), which I have been dying for an excuse to use for ages, fondling it every time I'm at Michaels, and the green looked perfect with the coat. I'm so pleased with it! The wool was tricky to work with--it felted to itself very easily--but the results are worth the fighting. And I'm working on singing again and that's going well. I've gone from a soprano as a teenager to a mezzalto as an adult and now my mixed voice is very weak because my break is sitting in a different spot than it was. I feel like I'm trying to wrestle a bucking bronco when I'm in that range, like I can't 'catch' the notes, but I'm improving.
So overall, things are looking up, though I wish I could shake this migraine. Hope all is well in your necks of the woods!
January ended up being rather stressful. It's a complicated story, but the short version of it is my mum got a call back in December about an ultrasound she'd had as a part of a regular monitoring of her liver (she has Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in relation to diabetes) saying there was a 6mm high density area on it. Through a series of preventable but inevitable events given the state the healthcare system is in, we basically had to wait nearly two months to find out that it was...nothing. Literally nothing, as in, there was an error on the ultrasound image itself. Which, we found out from our GP when we finally got the results from a CT my mum had at the liver doctor's orders, the radiologist basically said when he read the ultrasound images and recommended just repeating the ultrasound in three months to see, but the liver clinic a) didn't bother to tell us that, and b) decided to do a CT instead. Also, despite the fact that Mum had the CT on Jan 17th, the liver clinic has never bothered to call to tell her the results. We had to call the GP two weeks after the CT to ask if she had the report. Mum was very chill through all of it, she was sure it was nothing from the off, but Dad and I are worriers, so it was hanging over us a bit. And waiting for the results was taxing. Two weeks is a long time. I'm glad that's all over with.
I've been in my post-Christmas slump, very tired from all the activity (and probably from the worry from the above). Also the weather has been very variable and I've had a migraine for about a week, a low level one where I'm functional but I have to squint to think and it's hard to read.
We got my bed fixed up now, though. I ended up putting the cover sheet on the floor and the slats from the broken bed on top of that, then my mattress on top of that. It's still basically on the floor, but the slats means it gets some air flow, and it's still very comfy and I'm sleeping well on it. We're going to try to decorate the rest of the room to make it look more natural and not like I'm a starving artist sacrificing furniture for my craft or something. And I made Mum a gorgeous hat, mitts, scarf set for a new coat she has. It's using this wool (the ocean jasper colorway), which I have been dying for an excuse to use for ages, fondling it every time I'm at Michaels, and the green looked perfect with the coat. I'm so pleased with it! The wool was tricky to work with--it felted to itself very easily--but the results are worth the fighting. And I'm working on singing again and that's going well. I've gone from a soprano as a teenager to a mezzalto as an adult and now my mixed voice is very weak because my break is sitting in a different spot than it was. I feel like I'm trying to wrestle a bucking bronco when I'm in that range, like I can't 'catch' the notes, but I'm improving.
So overall, things are looking up, though I wish I could shake this migraine. Hope all is well in your necks of the woods!
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Date: 2024-02-18 05:35 pm (UTC)We're going to try to decorate the rest of the room to make it look more natural and not like I'm a starving artist sacrificing furniture for my craft or something.
Hee hee! I'm glad you found a good solution for the bed. I hope you get rid of that migraine soon!
Are you taking lessons or working on singing on your own? As someone who enjoys singing but is really bad at it, I'm just a tiny bit jealous.
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Date: 2024-02-19 11:50 am (UTC)I managed not to think about it too much until Mum actually had the CT, then I went into a kind of 'waiting for the Jack-in-the Box to pop up' mode, anticipating the phone ringing. We were pretty sure it was more likely to be nothing than something, but even so, it was hard to wait to find out! Mum is going to have a (polite!) word with the liver clinic folk at her next appointment about communication.
Are you taking lessons or working on singing on your own? As someone who enjoys singing but is really bad at it, I'm just a tiny bit jealous.
Just on my own. I did take voice lessons when I was about 14 or so, just before I first got sick with all my health woes, so I have a good foundation, and I have a few YouTubers I follow who are voice teachers with lessons and warm-ups. I sing on an app that is sort of like a karaoke kind of deal: the music and lyrics are all set up and (mostly) divided into parts. One person will record their parts of it and then anyone can come along and join to sing the other part. It's a lot of fun and helps me keep track of my progress.
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Date: 2024-02-20 01:02 am (UTC)