there’s just so much!
time to chronicle what’s happening. so. listy time.
– neighbors nothing is happening. it’s all the same. i’m pretty sure they just signed a new lease. AWESOME. i am so tired of the four a.m. wake up call that is their fighting. ugh. and she is a screamer. not sex-wise, though she is probably that, too. just in general. if she is angry, she screams. annnnooooyyying.
– doctors i have seen the following specialists: pulmonary, optometry, dental, nephrology, hematology…and of course, my PCP. i still need to get/see a cardio, and an OB, but we’ll get that far. the dental stuff is taking precedent right now, and i’ll get into that in a minute. pulmonary is largely unimpressed. she says my lungs are at 91% capacity, which is GREAT. nothing she saw or heard worried her about me. so. that’s a good thing. still need to do the sleep study, as she is querying sleep apnea, but if i’m lucky, i’ll be able to schedule my gastric bypass revision first, and we won’t even have to worry about such things. that would be a nice switch. hematology says that because my clots were un-provoked (like, no fall, no surgery, no travel, etc) the treatment protocol would not change regardless of whether or not there is a clotting disease in the family, so there really was no need to test. i’ll be on the blood thinners for the rest of my life – which is probably a good thing anyway, given the cardiac history. optometry was fascinating, to be honest. i’d been told about a decade ago that i have something called Kerataconus, where the eyeball develops what look like blisters. often the fluid inside the blister turns a pale yellow color. she said that the eventual outcome is corneal transplants, but that my case was so mild, she was sure it would not be an issue, and to just make sure to have it monitored over the years. well! turns out she was wrong. i have astigmatism in my left eye, not kerataconus. which is great, except that it could have been corrected ten years ago, and now it cannot. oh well. glasses it is. i haven’t picked them out yet, as the doc wants to do a field of vision test first, but….december 9th for that. and finally, dentist. oh, dentist. i have severe issues with my teeth. they are soft, and basically rotting out of my head, no matter what i do. i had been to several dentists down south, but they did nothing but fuck up my mouth. so. i became afraid of them, and stopped going. it took me a year once i got here to make the dental appointment, but i finally did…and you know what? i forgot how different health care is up here versus down south. there’s a patience, gentility, and understanding that somehow fails to exist in south florida. not that this is much of a shock – that could be said about most things down south. these guys, though. dr han is awesome. gentle, matter of fact, did not shame me in the LEAST about the state of my teeth, just got to work, made a plan, and here we are, executing it. the plan is that we will, in sections, pull everything that can’t be saved. that would be all but 9 teeth. i’ve been through one round, and have another round of pulling tomorrow. last time it was six teeth. i think it might be the same this time, but on the other side. after that, we will do the bottoms, and then the top fronts, and i’ll have a full top plate and partials on the bottom when all is said and done. he is doing a good job of keeping me drugged when i see him. 20 mg of valium makes sugar not give two shits. i also plan to go to the store and get a pair of headphones so i can listen to music while he does his thing. i’m sure i’ll still feel and hear the breaking teeth when he pulls them, but hopefully it’ll ease some of the nerves. i REALLY don’t like dentists…but if i have to go to one, i’m glad i found dr han.
– thanksgiving so, with the pandemic lingering and even getting worse as the winter sets in, thanksgiving has been a bit of a bone of contention in our house. first off, i am NOT cooking like i did last year for just the two of us. that was RIDICULOUS. not to mention the fact that i threw out EVERY BIT OF LEFTOVERS. no more! i found a grocery store here that does the pre-cooked, just-heat-and-eat thing like publix does, and i’ll be ordering that tonight. $70 and it’s all done? SOLD. that will be our Friday. thursday, which was ANOTHER bone of contention, we are going to my brother’s house for dinner. mom keeps wanting to cancel, but we cannot…because there’s a little surprise happening at the dinner table, and i absolutely HAVE to be there. my brother and his fiancee are going to go ahead and get married during grace, and i have the honor of officiating. see, back in 2017, my business partner/bestie and i got ordained so that we could officiate the wedding of two of our friends. we decided to both become ordained because that way, we can offer wedding packages and other services (last rights, baptisms, etc) along with our music services. why not, right? when joe’s fiancee heard that, she and joe decided to go ahead and get their marriage license, and plan a little surprise ceremony. basically, i’ll have “drawn the short straw” to say grace, and in the middle of thanking God for These Thy Gifts, i will ask Him to “guard, protect, and bless this family, and these friends, and this union.” and move right into their quickie vows. the only other person who knows this is happening is my mother, and that’s just because she kept wanting to cancel our plans. sorry, ma, can’t do that. LOL it’s all so exciting! i don’t know how rachel is keeping her head, i would be a DISASTER. lol!!
– mental health – it’s a mess. let’s not.
– mom things here are going okay i guess. i am not the housekeeper of anyone’s dreams, but i’m doing my best. i want to have someone come in one day once mom goes to MomCamp and give the place a deep once over. like, i expect to pay about $200 for that, but once it’s done, i’ll be happy. we’re also still looking for a handicap accessible apartment. most everything we have found has at least elevators, but the bathrooms and actual living spaces aren’t suitable for a wheelchair. looking ahead a little, that won’t work. i don’t know where we will end up having to go, but i have a feeling it won’t be close to anyone. i’m still looking. we still have plenty of time.
i think that’s it for now. i don’t have a proper place to set up my craptop, so i am leaning in an awkward position, and it’s time to not do that anymore. i’ve made my calls, and now i should….i don’t know. run the wash maybe. be productive. teresa is coming later. yay!
okay. that’s all.
peace, love, and music!
– sugarz