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May. 14th, 2026 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thedarlingonenot dead. arm infection still very painful and concerning. do not think i am physically capable of traveling anywhere till monday though when the course of antibiotics is set to finish anyway so i am planning to wait till then unless it explodes or does something really alarming (more alarming than its current slowish spread over my forearm, like turning non-pink colors or reaching above my elbow). at that point if it is not cleared up i am leaning towards "take it to urgent care" with a secondary option of "take it back to the ER" depending on whether it has improved at all under the antibiotics.
blood sugar continues to run high despite me reducing my carbs (on the advice of the hospital's diabetic educator who is following up with me) and meticulously following the insulin dosage instructions, except for last night when i panicked myself with an accidental dose of 7 units instead of 3 and somehow still did not dip below 200. (i did arrange with a local friend to call a welfare check if i became nonresponsive, because i know how often leia has nearly died from brittle lows, and she stays conscious if not coherent much lower than a normal human would. my favorite freak of nature. i do not fuck around with low blood sugar.)
am wearing a cardiac monitor patch to check on my tachycardia. it does not like how much i sweat and keeps trying to come off. hopefully it can get some useful results.
just did the math and realized my cpap mask is probably approaching 18 months of nightly use. including the parts that are designed to be replaced every three months. it is a fucking miracle every day i wake up and it hasn't exploded yet. i asked my insurance for a list of pulmonologists before but it doesn't look useful so i need to call them tomorrow and ask for sleep clinics instead. i have a list of other medical followup shit that's approaching two dozen line items. why are bodies.
blood sugar continues to run high despite me reducing my carbs (on the advice of the hospital's diabetic educator who is following up with me) and meticulously following the insulin dosage instructions, except for last night when i panicked myself with an accidental dose of 7 units instead of 3 and somehow still did not dip below 200. (i did arrange with a local friend to call a welfare check if i became nonresponsive, because i know how often leia has nearly died from brittle lows, and she stays conscious if not coherent much lower than a normal human would. my favorite freak of nature. i do not fuck around with low blood sugar.)
am wearing a cardiac monitor patch to check on my tachycardia. it does not like how much i sweat and keeps trying to come off. hopefully it can get some useful results.
just did the math and realized my cpap mask is probably approaching 18 months of nightly use. including the parts that are designed to be replaced every three months. it is a fucking miracle every day i wake up and it hasn't exploded yet. i asked my insurance for a list of pulmonologists before but it doesn't look useful so i need to call them tomorrow and ask for sleep clinics instead. i have a list of other medical followup shit that's approaching two dozen line items. why are bodies.
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Date: 2026-05-15 12:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-05-15 12:32 am (UTC)*hugs*
I am glad you are in yours and keeping an eye on all its unnecessarily moving parts.
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Date: 2026-05-15 12:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-05-15 07:16 pm (UTC)That all sounds pretty rotten! I do hope the infection starts to clear up soon for you. <3<3<3 So glad to hear you're being sensible about it - but that sounds like an awful lot to have to be sensible about, and I hope some of it at least gives a bit, if not more.