Bipolar Check-in #102

I bought a bunch of OTC stuff with my spendable card. I got 2 boxes of pepto bismol, 2 boxes of melatonin, 2 boxes of Dramamine. A box of Nauzene and a box of Emetrol. A lot of the stuff was BOGO 50% off. It still was $80 but after my card I paid about $12.

I’m kind of nauseated right now. I was a bit shaky too so I had some granola and a juice box but I’m still pretty shaky.

I did one load of laundry. I have another to do. I should get in the shower which I’ve been avoiding since I took one on Sunday. I get my 3rd knee shot on Monday and I have the visit from the nurse tomorrow and then Easter on Sunday. So I might just take one tomorrow around 11AM

I told my therapist I felt like the last time things were truly good in the states was when Pokémon Go was going on in summer 2016. And she said “yeah. I agree.”

I’m battling with my mom about the AC again. She doesn’t get that I feel very sick when it’s not on and it’s hot. I think it’s has to do with my Geodon. I think you get overheated easily with that one.

It’s about time to wear just my crocs for the spring and summer.

Thanks beyondtherainbow

I’m just waiting on my groceries. I was gonna go get them this morning but I overslept by a lot and couldn’t get motivated to go.

I got stuff to make banana bread with butterscotch chips. My sister is coming over Sunday possibly so I hope she likes it.

Thanks rainbow! 🌈

Been without water most of the day, just now have it back on. The workers couldn't finish the master bathroom today. They would have been able to come work tomorrow, but we've got my family's Easter celebration. I'm so stressed out!! I wish I still had a benzo I could take, I'm that bad. I have to pull it together and cook a dinner I had been planning to prep a little in the day, but you know...kind of need WATER for that! I had no CLUE H was going to schedule this work when I ordered groceries for the week on Monday and planned the meals for the week. Then, the week Tuesday, of course, we got the payment from the city and H was gung-ho to start the work even though it was Easter weekend!

I just keep telling myself in a week this nightmare will be over. Monday they will also be starting the hall bathroom, and that will take 1 day where they leave industrial blowers to let the chemical they spray to kill the bacteria dry. Then presumably, on Wednesday they can finish that bathroom, fingers crossed. I just feel like I want my house back!!!! And we've got additional clutter in the meantime, having to remove all the stuff from the areas being worked on.

I swear, if this ever happens to us again, I will lose my SHYT completely!

I almost didn't know which thread to post on!! LOL!! But it's okay, glad you guys figured it out.

God totally stepped in today and cancelled my meeting at 3:30pm because it happened just about a half hour before Good Friday mass started. I missed last year's Good Friday, and I really wanted to go this year, but this job came in that had no other time slots. But the Lord had other plans!! LOL.

When I got home, I got a fun surprise from my guy - he sent me a whole pound of Jordan Almonds for Easter! OMG I ate so many just now my stomach hurts!! They are so good!!

Yes at @Blueberrybook - Lithium is NOTORIOUS for weight gain. So is Risperidone and I am on both! It is IMPOSSIBLE to lose weight. Thankfully, I am meeting a health coach on Monday that's in my area, to maybe get on a real plan to tackle this weight issue.

I am glad you got won such a great prize at the Easter party @Blue_Bird - I hope we get to keep the appointment on Monday - I have a real plan of action for tackling your finances.

I loved Pokemon GO @Mountaindewed - walking around the beach with it was A LOT of fun with all the water Pokemon.

The weather got a little better than yesterday, I actually got to wear a black blazer at mass. The podcast I guest-starred on was released on Spotify today!! I am so excited!! Message me if you want the link, I sound absolutely crazy, but it was a lot of fun!

Can't wait for Easter, tomorrow is the anniversary of my baptism. Watching the Artemis get closer to the moon on Youtube.

It’s been a wonderful day. Trash people picked up yard trash and I went out to lunch with W, daughter, and her fiancée. I generally don’t go out, so it was a big deal for me. It was very nice.

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Glad you got out Gary and had a good day

@LadyShadow you’ll have to send me the link to the Spotify podcast, I’d love to hear it. I’m looking forward to our meeting on Monday and am excited to start getting back on track with things

I got my grocery order. Everything was available. Even the cannolis. That’s one of my guilty pleasures. Cannolis. They’re so damn good. Most of the stuff I bought is healthy but there’s a few treats here and there.

I really need to push myself to get to the pharmacy tomorrow to pick up my meds.

I’m exhausted. It’s been a long busy day.

I don’t think the bananas will be ripe enough for banana bread for Sunday. I’ll just have to make it during the week at some point. They’re greenish. I got two bunches. One for my oatmeal and one for banana bread.

What else did I get…. Lots of pantry staples, ground turkey, thinly sliced chicken breasts that I’m gonna use a teriyaki baste on and bake to have with stir fried vegetables.

Anyway, lots of good stuff. Aside from the pharmacy tomorrow I’m just relaxing. Then I’m going to my shift on Easter. With the rescue cats. 🐱

I think I need to go back down to the 1.5mg Wegovy. The 4mg is causing nausea and the zofran I take has been causing anxiety

I rescheduled my nurse appointment for the beginning of May. I just can’t do it. My mom says she is glad we rescheduled it because she has a lot to do to get ready for Sunday. I got my weekly shot this afternoon which I normally get on Saturday. That and the rescheduling the nurse and a couple listens to Strawberry Swing by Coldplay helped me calm down.

@Blueberrybook omg that’s horrendous. I’m so sorry you’re having to deal with that mess on Easter weekend. Especially with workers in your house. Yikes!

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After 8 hours my cat is finally on my headboard purring and I am the most comfortable I've been in 3 weeks. I did ok in the nursing home bed for a while but there was a bar in the middle that was not comfortable. I think the hospital bed was ok but it was still not a double sized bed and having space to spread out is nice.

The home health nurse came and changed my dressing. They'll come weekly for that. I'll also have PT and OT. OT will probably be an evaluation only since as an OT I'm quite independent already. I just need someone to make sure I can get into the shower with a shower chair and grab bars. I'm pretty certain I can but the nursing home OT suggested I do that just to be sure. Tomorrow I'm hoping to have my mom wash my hair at the kitchen sink. It's only been washed twice and I used a shampoo cap once in all this time. The shampoo cap is easier to use but smells awful and only gets some of the grease out. I had to scoot up the porch steps on my butt because I didn't feel comfortable when I tried a hop. Not a problem but it means I'll be inside and not leaving except for post-op appointments for a while. When I can get in and out I may try to get my hair cut shorter than it is now just to make it easier to handle until I'm better. It's good I got the boot the other day because I couldn't have safely scooted up the stairs in my splint. The only problem is my boot must have been defective. It has 2 air bladders that won't inflate and a deflate button that broke off. I'm assuming it can be traded in but my surgeon's office is closed for the holiday today and Monday.

Time to scare my cat back into the basement. I've been trying to avoid needing to use the bathroom but I have to and that means using my knee scooter. That will scare her and to make it worse I am not good at steering yet so there will be excessive turning trying to get back into the bedroom. I miss having a wheelchair but it wouldn't fit in here very easily and not in the bathroom at all. We can get one if we need it but I think I'll eventually master the knee scooter thing.

So glad to be home! (and yes I'm going to keep saying this). I've been spending time just enjoying the silence. My suitemate in the nursing home (2 rooms, one bathroom, curtains across both room doors) was very sweet and very hard of hearing and then her hearing aid broke this week. So I've been listening to her blaring TV 24/7. She kept it on a station that plays the same 4 Golden Girls episode over and over all night. Today she mixed it up with a court show with people fighting over paternity for hours. It was awful. The first night I couldn't sleep because of it. My mom brought me earplugs after that and I've slept increasingly well but the earplugs muted things, not silenced them. Tonight I can watch a show and then TURN IT OFF!

@BeyondtheRainbow How wonderful that you are home now!

Today has been okay. Rather boring. It's only 5:15 pm here.

My hot cup of coffee of all things triggered my POTs symptoms this morning so I did a modified version of errand running and have just been home besides that. Tomorrow, I am trying a new med (not a psych med) so I plan on staying home in case there are side effects. A bummer is I can't sleep in as long as I would like to because I need to get up to change the band-aid on my toe from the procedure I had done on Tuesday. I also need to soak it in epsom salt in the morning and evening.

My mood hasn't been to bad today, but I'm heading into the danger zone with the evening being here.

I am so glad you are home @BeyondtheRainbow! I love the Golden Girls, but I just don't know how much I can take, lol.

Feeling really good, and reflecting on mass from earlier, so glad the job canceled. I absolutely need money, yes, but I felt something bigger calling me today.

Had a good time earlier with my guy watching King of Kings from Angel Studios. I saw it last Christmas and really liked it a lot, it could be watched on Easter, and is a really good moive.

Now, I am watching Lexx with my friend, this show is sooooo weird, I have no idea why he even likes it, lol.

I have one eye on the NASA broadcast up on my computer monitor, - Artemis is 130,000 miles from the moon!

Oo I can’t comprehend 130,000 miles! How far is that in light years, lol 😂.

Rainbow, it sounds wonderful to be home again. Your cat will get used to the knee skidoo but probably like a vacuum will disappear 🫥

Boy, the Pitt was intense tonight. I’m chilling now watching the librarians. Should say, rewatching it. As for the golden girls, it’s a fun show, but not all night!

I really enjoyed the Golden Girls when I was in the hospital and unable to do anything but watch TV. In the nursing home I had a lot of time staring at the TV in the beginning but after I got more mobile I probably would have read or something besides having the TV on but I needed it for self defense. I have watched hours and hours of Friends and The Office, fewer but many hours of some version of House Hunters that focuses on beachfront property, some Everybody Loves Raymond and a few movies when I found one at the right time. I'm really enjoying watching videos on my computer with the sound on. I've been relying on closed captioning on my phone.

When I tried to go on Reddit tonight I discovered it signs you out after a while and I didn't know my log-in name. It finally popped up when I clicked a link in my email and I was finally able to get in there. I thought I had lost all of the saved threads (I know it's called something different but I can't remember) but I finally have them back. I'm not a huge Reddit person but I do enjoy certain things on there and enjoy it as a calming activity at night. I will be playing catch-up for a while now.

@Nammu if I sign up for whatever The Pitt is on does it have the season 1 episodes as well as season 2? I really want to see it but don't want to waste money if I can't start at the beginning.

Welcome home, BeyondtheRainbow!

Not Lauren Lake, was it? I love that show!

Kitties on youtube will pull up a paw and start limping like their owners, tell you kitty to start practicing!

Thanks @unaluna ! It wasn't Lauren Lake. It was called Beachfront something. I knew I'd been in bed too long when I started seeing second or third episodes of people looking for houses in the same tiny towns that prior episodes had shown.

My poor kitty was alone for some severe storms. When it started raining she got scared and ran under my bed. She'll be ok but I feel so bad for her. She's doing really well with the knee scooter. I should try to find a kitty sized one for her . Poor thing.

Rainbow
The Pitt is on hbo max. Yes it has both seasons available. I binged watched season 1 to catch up to season 2. It comes out on Thursday and I watch it on Friday. There’s 2 episodes left. But I have to keep my phone available to look at during some of the scenes. It is realistic.

Thanks Nammu. I'll definitely watch it during this healing time. I've been wanting to for a while but to get HBOmax I have to get rid of Peacock and I was waiting until after the figure skating worlds because I wanted to see them. I wound up unable to because of my ankle. I'll have to watch that on YouTube eventually. So I'll ditch Peacock and enjoy HBO. I've never had it before so I should find some good stuff.

I'm pretty sure that the new season of Call the Midwife is on PBS now too. In the nursing home I thought I'd want to watch that as soon as I got home but tonight I've only watched reels and I'm very happy with that.

Yep the midwife’s started already. The writing is still as good as ever. Meaning of course that I cry nearly every episode

I will watch one episode tomorrow. I like to space them out. I am so glad my mom got me hooked on it. I actually may binge-watch last season so I know what's happening with the new one. I know I didn't like the Christmas one much, just because it was so different than prior Christmases. But I'm so excited to see the new episodes.

I slept about 5 hours. I had some weird dreams. One that involved Julie Andrew’s, and a guy who looked like the cartoon character Dilbert. There was also someone eating red beans and rice. I think we were on an RV. I woke up for 10 minutes and then I went back to sleep and I had some dream about a store that had these black shorts with the Simpsons on them

I took the 1.5 Wegovy a few minutes ago. I took it without water which kinda sucks but I feel better than yesterday morning. I really cut down on the caffeine though. I had a medium half decaf half regular coffee and then it was just juice and water the rest of the day.

I’m still glad I rescheduled the nurse but I feel a bit guilty. My mom is telling me she is glad I rescheduled so I guess I shouldn’t worry. We were both pretty sick last night from our GLPs and this lobster Mac and cheese we shared.

I just need to finish doing laundry and cleaning m room. I need to take shower for real. In the afternoon.

My therapist and I talked about Needohs yesterday and how they are sold out everywhere and people are reselling them for a lot of money. I have a dog and a small cube and a big cube. The big cube is a big deal and I have a rare color. I just waked into this random store a couple weeks ago and found it. My therapist was also eating pancakes in addition to squeezing the needoh she has.

My knee hurts so badly I can barely walk on it. Not sure what the next step is if this 3rd gel shot doesn’t work. That would have been 3 gel shots and a 15 pound weight loss and it’s still very painful.

I tried scooting up in my bed and it did absolutely nothing but cause more knee pain. So I am lying like this halfway off my bed.

Good morning, I slept alright. 6 1/2 hours. I started to listen to @LadyShadow s podcast last night and got about halfway through (to about 25 minutes in, and I think it’s 45 minutes long) it’s really really good. I went to sleep because it was late but I’m gonna finish it today

Hope everyone has a nice Easter weekend !

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