General Update

I've been reading some of the yaoi manga I brought up from Kenosha. I had forgotten how over-the-top ridiculous some of these plots are and, honestly? This is pretty close to what I need sometimes these days when my brain is a mess. Absolutely ridiculous plots and hot boys kissing each other.

I've had had my second session with the therapist I booked through Aroha and I really, really like them. The therapist I was seeing in Chicago did so much for me in figuring out a lot of stuff related to my gender, but I feel so understood and empathized with by the therapist here in ways that I haven't experienced before and it's pretty wonderful. Now I need to keep convincing myself to make appointments even though they're expensive and I have no income of my own.

Furniture arrived and I constructed it all over the course of two days. It took more out of me than I expected; it's been a while. We have a real bed frame, and a bookcase in the spare room that I unloaded 4-5 boxes of books onto. There's a little room in there now! This is good since the mattress for the daybed in there is arriving today, supposedly.

I've had a really hard time for years thinking of things to ask for for my birthday. I think, if family wants to get me something for birthday this year though, I'm going to ask for another piercing. My lobe piercings my parents got me last year are really meaningful to me, and I like the idea of these things being connected to people I care about. I'll have to decide which side I want the first helix on, 'cause I'm not getting two at once!

I was looking at the web page of an organization that advocates for bike-friendly policy and encourages cycling, and the image at the head of their page shows a bike with a set of drop bars and friction shifters. And I'm like, you actually *want* new people to start biking, right? For the love of crackers, don't show them 40-year-old bikes with friction shifters!

I've been getting out for bike rides relatively frequently lately and I think it's good for my mental health.

MRI for my Partner

Miriam finally got an MRI done after waiting for I forget how many months. She (and I) have been hoping for information that will provide a diagnosis. Whatever is going on with her, we'd really like to know what it is.

But while the results show abnormalities, they could be related to a vast number of different things. Maybe along with other symptoms they will point to something solid. The results were only posted to her health record last night around 1 AM, so she's hoping for a call from the neurologist today. If not, she will likely call tomorrow morning.

The relevant portion of the report:

Few T2 and FLAIR hyperintense foci are less than centimeter in size and scattered in random distribution in subcortical and deep white matter of frontoparietal lobes, likely mild arteriosclerotic leukoencephalopathy.

She is anxious. I am too.