Photo: mine
It’s been an odd week. Nothing dreadful, just a lot of fatigue and no appetite at all. In some ways that’s good because I didn’t have money this week to get fresh fruit and veg after one shop on pay day almost a month ago. I’ve got some military rations that I’ve been checking out, and wow- France takes top billing on military rations. Of course, they’re used to good stuff. I’ve tried them from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the UK, Poland, Spain (great biscuits), Italy (too much canned stuff), Russia (not good), Germany (uh, those entrees are scary), South Korea (rice & spice), Lithuania (very good one meal rations), France, and somewhere I’m forgetting besides the US (pretty good). The US has crap food standards, and has for years, which benefits the medical industrial complex, but the MREs are improving, and some components are quite good. But France wins hands down. Lithuania has some really good dark chocolate (as do other EU countries). But I’m losing weight, so no complaints on being broke or the military food. This week, I get paid, so will be getting groceries that will be compatible with recovery after surgery next week.
I’ve noticed over the past couple of months that Canada seems to be the folks who are reading these blog posts the most (or have their VPNs set to Canada). Like by a huge margin over the 2nd place country (which varies). For a while, Indonesia was reading a lot of posts. I have no idea who reblogs my posts, but I’ll be putting those into spam and hopefully eliminating the auto-reblog thing.
The weather has been more steady, which my autonomic nervous system appreciates. It was near 90F for a couple of days, but now dipping into the 70sF during the day (cool for this time of year here), and 40sF at night. I was watching some storm chasers on YouTube, and one watched a tornado heading to his hometown (he was chasing elsewhere), but his dad had his car rigged up to film, so it was all shown live. The town got a lot of damage to property, which is always sad. I think they said it was an EF-3, so very damaging.
I was trying to find a new cover photo for Facebook, and went through that ‘album’, getting rid of some old photos, taking ‘public’ off of ones not being used, and ditching a few idiotic avatar backgrounds. There are more of those that need to go. I also ran across some old posts that are meaningless now, so those got deleted. General housekeeping. I need to do that with photos as well. The thought of going through over 3000 photos isn’t terribly enticing, but I need to get around to that, though also have stuff here in the apartment that I need to work on.
There was one very odd FB ‘thing’ with someone I don’t know who was making some very disturbing posts about someone I do know, but no longer have contact with, so those got reported to FB, and I blocked the freaky poster. I’m no longer in contact, but those posts crossed a threat line that I didn’t want to make any assumptions about…. lots of lunacy, and very specific homicidal stuff that is never OK, no matter why there’s no contact. Came up on that always unwanted “people you may know” line-up that I hate. I always delete them, but hit the wrong part of the thumbnail, and was taken to their page for some seriously disturbed crap and a name that is very close to someone else’s name who knows the same person I seemingly never did know. I’m so glad I’m not their target !! It’s also annoying that the person I’m no longer in contact with still has their groupies showing up on the “may know” line-up. Humans make me miss my dog so much more. No agenda. No lies. No betrayal.
About that surgery… I’ve had the same one done 3 times before in the hospital, and at least a dozen ‘one offs’ in a MD office, ER, or urgent care. I don’t anticipate any surprises. I do have a history of blood loss with these (had to stay overnight for the last 2 ‘mass’ removals ages ago), which tanks my blood pressure, and that messes with my kidneys. Scalps always bleed like crazy, so that’s part of it. A friend is taking me and bringing me home, as long as I do OK with anesthesia and bleeding. I don’t know yet if it will be with or without being intubated and on a vent for the procedure, but at least it will be over and done. It’s not a fun surgery to recover from since I’ll have incisions all over my head. I still have some of my dog’s pee pads that I’ll use as pillow protectors for any bleeding that continues a bit, and hoping I can sleep with where the biggest incision will be. I’m not sure how the CPAP headgear will work with a wrapped up head. I’ll figure something out.
OK. Enough drivel.
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