General Update
Mar. 27th, 2018 07:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI stayed home from work on Friday because I was feeling...I don't know. Worn out? Too anxious and depressed to feel very functional. I got ready to go that morning, then couldn't find my keys or something, and by the time I found them I was going to miss my regular train, and then I suddenly felt like I just wasn't up to dealing with things. I made the appropriate notifications and went back to bed. Then I realized that I had an appointment with an orthopedic doctor at Rush that day so I'd have to go down there anyway. I drove and parked in the hospital garage after spending twenty minutes or so trying to find a parking space in the surrounding neighborhoods. The doctor got x-rays, poked and prodded, and said that my wrist seems structurally sound. He had me schedule an MRI for a deeper look. I could have waited and done it that day, but decided to go home and wait for Monday when I was at work anyway.
I had a quiet weekend mostly at home. Dee came to visit and they and Danae and I played some Overcooked together. I even went out to the new local Target to get a third game controller so we could all play. It's a silly cooking-based time management game that often involves lots of throwing food on the floor and running into each other and starting things on fire. Silly was good.
Dee also helped me troubleshoot my ESR meter a little bit and we managed to determine that my oscillator is, in fact, producing a sine wave whose amplitude can be modulated correctly by a trim pot, so that whole stage is now working as it should. It makes me so happy to, for the first time, use my scope to view a signal produced by a circuit that I built myself! I don't understand theory well enough to know why that collection of parts produces a sine wave, but I'm taking things in steps.
Danae and I also drove out to visit Posi and have dinner with him and a couple friends from Kenosha. I think that's as much being social as I've done in one weekend for a long time!
Monday started off well, though I developed a mild headache earlier in the day. At lunch, I walked over for my MRI. Being inside that softly lit, cozy tube is soothing and, as I did during my one other MRI, I ended up mostly falling asleep by the end. Still, even with the ear plugs in my ears, the noise was aggravating my head. It wasn't too bad immediately after, but by three o'clock it had progressed to a serious level of awfulness. I decided to leave my bike locked up outside and take the train because I wasn't up to riding.
Danae drove to Howard (the far north side of Chicago) to pick me up from the train so I didn't have to ride all the way into Evanston and walk home. I was late because I had my eyes closed on the train to avoid the light and was zoned out enough that I rode four stops too far on the brown line and had to go back to get the north-going purple.
Once I got home, I went to bed for the rest of the night. Danae made sure I had some dinner, and also gave me one of her Tylenol with codeine pills (OTC in Canada). Typically, I avoid taking pain meds for almost anything, but I even took another one a bit later when I still hurt. I think so anyway; my memory is fuzzy. This morning, I must have finally felt good enough around 4:30 or so that I woke up and was out of bed.
I can only remember having one headache that was worse than that one, and that was about ten years ago, and bordered on what I've read people describe as migraine-level. I don't know how people who have those regularly deal with it.
Anyway, things seem better this morning, and it looks like my bike is still at work. And the weather is warmer too. I hope the rest of the week will be better.
I had a quiet weekend mostly at home. Dee came to visit and they and Danae and I played some Overcooked together. I even went out to the new local Target to get a third game controller so we could all play. It's a silly cooking-based time management game that often involves lots of throwing food on the floor and running into each other and starting things on fire. Silly was good.
Dee also helped me troubleshoot my ESR meter a little bit and we managed to determine that my oscillator is, in fact, producing a sine wave whose amplitude can be modulated correctly by a trim pot, so that whole stage is now working as it should. It makes me so happy to, for the first time, use my scope to view a signal produced by a circuit that I built myself! I don't understand theory well enough to know why that collection of parts produces a sine wave, but I'm taking things in steps.
Danae and I also drove out to visit Posi and have dinner with him and a couple friends from Kenosha. I think that's as much being social as I've done in one weekend for a long time!
Monday started off well, though I developed a mild headache earlier in the day. At lunch, I walked over for my MRI. Being inside that softly lit, cozy tube is soothing and, as I did during my one other MRI, I ended up mostly falling asleep by the end. Still, even with the ear plugs in my ears, the noise was aggravating my head. It wasn't too bad immediately after, but by three o'clock it had progressed to a serious level of awfulness. I decided to leave my bike locked up outside and take the train because I wasn't up to riding.
Danae drove to Howard (the far north side of Chicago) to pick me up from the train so I didn't have to ride all the way into Evanston and walk home. I was late because I had my eyes closed on the train to avoid the light and was zoned out enough that I rode four stops too far on the brown line and had to go back to get the north-going purple.
Once I got home, I went to bed for the rest of the night. Danae made sure I had some dinner, and also gave me one of her Tylenol with codeine pills (OTC in Canada). Typically, I avoid taking pain meds for almost anything, but I even took another one a bit later when I still hurt. I think so anyway; my memory is fuzzy. This morning, I must have finally felt good enough around 4:30 or so that I woke up and was out of bed.
I can only remember having one headache that was worse than that one, and that was about ten years ago, and bordered on what I've read people describe as migraine-level. I don't know how people who have those regularly deal with it.
Anyway, things seem better this morning, and it looks like my bike is still at work. And the weather is warmer too. I hope the rest of the week will be better.
