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01
Jul
2020

Well, this may not have gone as it was intended.

categories: personal; word count: 301 words

My neurologist wanted me to try lisinopril to see if it changed the frequency and severity of my migraines in any positive way (lessening either). After working my way up from 2.5mg to the intended 5mg dose, maintaining that for a little while, and finding the side effects that I could feel tolerable, I then began to notice something that was not only possibly intolerable from a clinical standpoint but concerning. I was beginning to get a bit “puffy” in a manner not quite like prednisone (I know what prednisone “puffiness” feels like and when it occurs), having to urinate more, and I was beginning to gain weight in spite of that when my diet and exercise had not changed at all. After doing some research on the side effect profile of this medication, these are side effects that this medication can have, and the individual that generally has these side effects most likely discontinues taking the medication as a result of these for… well, whatever reason.

At first, I thought that things weren’t going too bad with this medication, and then… well, this. Heh.

“Well, this,” seems to be a staple of me describing this medication to varying individuals in my care team.

Well, this.

I don’t mind gaining some weight from taking certain medications if there is a net positive from me taking that medication — prednisone is perhaps the primary one here, and the primary reason for this — and I can put up with a lot of side effects from treatment if the end goal is me comparatively being healthier, feeling better, and being in less pain. But for lisinopril, gaining weight and “feeling puffy” are not desirable side effects from treatment. These are warier side effects that you have to alert your care team to, it seems like.

29
Jun
2020

One step closer to… whatever this is, honestly.

categories: personal; word count: 281 words

Since I had to get us this new laptop, I have been fighting for the better part of successfully loading everything else on it to get the camcorder to successfully be able to upload video without the video portion of it looking green, pixelated, and just plain weird. I am not sure why it was doing that, because it worked just fine with our last laptop (even when the keyboard didn’t). Working around my migraines, which slowed this down, I kept at it whenever I could mess with this… so a little bit here, a little bit there, sometimes nothing at all here and there. But I think I actually made progress making it so that recorded video can now actually get on this computer! That only took how long now? But all I have to do is get the date stamp to go away on videos, because for some reason it’s showing a date of 2018 (and, I mean, if I can’t, as long as I can upload videos… whatever, I’ll gladly accept that), and I think I’ve actually gotten to the point where I can now get videos from the camcorder to this computer without screwing up the video something incomprehensible!

I’ll probably record more video, like the ones that I was recording of taking Bub to the park and on walks playing Pokemon Go, when this pandemic is over with… whenever that is. Although I acknowledge that the protests were (and are) necessary to affect change, I can also see that they have contributed to the localized spikes in some areas of it in some states, and have even raised the infection rate of some states as a whole.

28
Jun
2020

Why, oh why, did I not notice this sooner?

categories: personal; word count: 174 words

I just realized that if you have an active Nintendo Online subscription (which we do, for the Switch), it gives you complimentary access to a lot of old games for the Nintendo and Super Nintendo free of charge. This has made my day… or probably, to be more accurate, in this case, a lot of days. I found out about this when I was adding more time to our Nintendo Online subscription, since it lets you add a bit more than a year to it — I kind of wish it let you add a bit more than that just so I could go on ahead and get it out of the way when we had spare funds around, but I digress, it is what it is — and I saw those. I checked them out. I was pleasantly surprised to find that out, because I didn’t even know about that up until that point. Heh…

Maybe I should have looked into that sooner, because I’m going to enjoy vegging out on all of this nostalgia.

27
Jun
2020

I’ve gotten back into scheduling some posts here.

categories: personal; word count: 266 words

A partial retcon of previous posts: I can see myself happily dating a Satanist that affiliated with The Satanic Temple (or had no formal “affiliation” at all) regardless of whether or not they do ritual, and how much, because of the things that we would already have in common. I guess the only straw that might break the camel’s back is if they required that someone engage in ritual with them at a certain frequency and could not be fulfilled with or happy in a relationship that did not meet that frequency(, although I honestly can not see this happening with anyone affiliating with The Satanic Temple and would like to come out and say as much). But I would probably be happier dating a Satanist that either had no formal affiliation, or affiliated with The Satanic Temple, than one that was formally affiliated with the Church of Satan because there would be a lot less disagreement there, as I’ve addressed in previous posts. I don’t want to feel like I’m a potential number to convert to someone’s side. I’ve already had that happen once, and once is too much.

In the interim, I’ve taken to finding a different way to organize the necklace collection that I’ve gotten… over the years, even though wearing them is a challenge since I have bad enough skin allergies to the point that things discolor my skin. When I’ve taken copious amounts of Benadryl and am on prednisone though, the effect is less. Ironically, that is something that I’ve noticed. So why not exploit those time periods a little bit?

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