I have completed my first week of work and I have moved house.  It's been eventful.  The first week of work was pretty rocky.  While there were some high points, there were a lot of very low ones.  I have hopes that this next week will be better.

I paid (overpaid, but it was so worth it) a very nice young man to carry all my things down the stairs ( Read more... )

I’m not sure why it feels important to say all this, but it does feel important.  I’ll start out by saying that I’m, as of the writing of this, fine.  And yet.

I have some significant mental health challenges.  Always have.  I was suicidally depressed when I was 16…not that anyone noticed.  Getting through my teens and twenties was difficult, ( Read more... )

 This is just a quick update on the general State of the Lydy.

The arm is healing nicely.  I do two sessions of PT, one more than is prescribed, and often more reps than is prescribed.  I discussed it with my physical therapist, Olivia, and she doesn't think I am overdoing it.  This has resulted in a really strong recovery. My range of motion is ( Read more... )

I have spent four years studiously not thinking about the facts that Trump had control of the nuclear football and that he thought that nuclear bombs were kinda neat.  There was no point in thinking about it, so I didn't.  And today, I can stop not thinking about it.  Thank god. 

So, now that I can type again, I'm going to recap the last month.  Nothing new here, just more detail.

December 9th was a perfect day.  I had visited downtown Cleveland, gotten my ID badge, had really settled into my tiny apartment, and felt happy, competent, and successful.  The next day was to be very fine, so I made plans to ride my bike.  I ( Read more... )

- I can now touch type for brief periods of time.

- I now have two body positions in which I can sleep, which vastly reduces the amount of pain I experience upon waking.

- I still hurt a a lot, but a fair bit of that is the result of doing more with my arm.

- I resurrected Hermione yesterday afternoon, and made fry- bread.  She is looking reasonably ( Read more... )

 Things which have improved:

- My right hand is no longer swollen

- I can now use my right hand to hold and carry things, and to grip bottles to open, if the lid is not too tight

- I can now remove my sling, wash my arm, powder it, and replace my sling without assistance

- I can raise my right am at the elbow a little

- Without the sling, my right arm ( Read more... )

I saw the doctor on the 17th. I was uncomfortable with David in the waiting room for more than 30 minutes when it was just not well ventilated not well spaced so I saw doctor by myself.  I would've liked a second person there to hear what the doctor said but I just did not feel it was safe for him. Safer for me because I theoretically have some ( Read more... )

I have made an appointment with the follow-up orthopedic doc for Thursday the 17th.  They will re-x-ray, and the receptionist says that's the fracture is not displaced and I might just have a cast for six weeks. Guess we'll see what we will see.  If anybody uses the dictation function on a macintosh, can you tell me why it types my clauses in this ( Read more... )

 Hi guys.. I fell off my bike yesterday very hard,, broke my arm in two places in two places.. Work contract canceled Work contract canceled.. Oh it was my right arm isn't that special. Not sure what's going to happen next, I'm using dictation software which is terribleI'm using dictation software which is terrible.  Oh and I'm also going to ( Read more... )