Activing

My latest record of exercise has me out exactly 45 out of 90 days, when I aim to get out every day. Not bad for a sick person, but not nearly my goal. :/

Of course, I don't track the days I skip exercise to do housework or socialize or have appointments or grocery shop. Especially lately, having therapists come to my house three days a week, it takes a toll on my ability to do anything else. Today was the first day I've been out hiking in a week, and I went to the store with my boyfriend a few days ago - it was the first time I'd left our property in months! I'm working on being more in the world; spring is here so there will be more in-town festivities to attempt, and I'm planning on attending a birthday party and a wedding in the next month. Though they'll both likely be brief appearances, it means something to be places and see people.




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Oh My Barking Brain

I started getting in-home medical visits about a month ago, and it's been amazing.

I had a nurse for a few weeks, just to evaluate me and hook me up with the other medpros i need to see. A social worker came - she's going to refer me to IHSS for help in my daily life, which can include housecleaning. I've also seen an occupational therapist, a speech therapist, and a physical therapist. OT is going to get me a shower chair, and has been making suggestions for gentle stretches for my neck. PT gave me some more advanced stretches that are focused more on my lumbar, and corrected my squat form, which was incredibly helpful. But it's the speech therapist who is the true mvp.

She treats a lot of people with traumatic brain injuries and sees my symptoms as being very similar to theirs, only instead of one major event making dramatic changes in the brain, for us chronic migraineurs it's an ongoing trauma. She's been working with me on memory and cognition with distraction. Eventually she wants to add sound to our meetings, which I'm worried about, but it'll be good to try. I would love to get back into the world one day.

I've had a cold for two weeks now; though the worst of it was over after week one, the lingering cough is making my head bark back.

My depression is loads better after upping my antidepressant. I still have some mood swings, and when I get sad I can still spiral, but it's is SO much less that it was.

Our washing machine broke a few months ago. We couldn't afford to replace it until this month, and honestly idk if that was the best choice financially, but I can't do laundry at the mat without being very sick from the noise and the driving to and from, PLUS last time we went we spent $60 and only washed about half our stuff. And half of it came out smelling like other people's detergent, and I'm sure you can guess how that went over with my brain.

SO we spent about the last of our cash on a new-to-us one today! I can't wait to have clean clothes again.





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