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brin_bellway) wrote2023-08-01 10:06 am
brin_bellway) wrote2023-08-01 10:06 am
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Status update, morning of 2023-08-01
[cw: illness, medical, food]
I remain asymptomatic.apart from the stress responses, anyway Surgery is in about two hours.
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Knowing that I'm about to have fewer body parts is kind of weirding me out, even if it's a body part that doesn't normally make itself known.
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Knock on wood, but I'm beginning to suspect Mom is one of those anti-superspreaders that just naturally isn't very contagious. So far, this is her third ILI in a row in which nobody else showed symptoms, not even Dad. We didn't even take any protective measures against the second one, having mistaken it for carbohydrate withdrawal: our only evidence that it *wasn't* is that "keto flu" doesn't have post-acute sequelae.
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For the first few days I was going into the bathroom a few minutes before teeth-brushing or showering or other such maskless things and turning on the ventilation fan, but I think it was drawing in pollen. I switched to plunking my air purifier down in there for a bit before each maskless bathroom trip instead, and my throat seems happier now.
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As of Sunday, one week in, she reports that she feels back to baseline. She volunteered to continue quarantining until my surgery is over. She's sufficiently mobility-disabled at this point that the main difference is in whether her bedroom door is open to encourage other household members to drop in on her: I am still unlikely to encounter her without deliberately seeking her out, and I will probably continue to avoid that for at least a couple days while my body's repair mechanisms are already busy.
I miss hugs.
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I bought a dozen bottles of liquid yogurt, some pudding cups, some ice cream, a box of oatmeal packets, and a litre of milk. I was originally planning to buy the jug of "berry smoothie", but then I checked the nutrition information and it's very high in vitamin C (read: acid), so I got a jug of apple cider instead. Brother has agreed to make a batch of mashed potatoes for me tomorrow, and Dad will share some of his Ensure supplies. I'll probably make hummus later in the week: I doubt the oatmeal will be enough fibre.
(I seriously considered psyllium, but it's such a large package size for a product I've never tested and would probably only want for a week or two even if it worked out well.)
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Wish me luck.
I remain asymptomatic.
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Knowing that I'm about to have fewer body parts is kind of weirding me out, even if it's a body part that doesn't normally make itself known.
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Knock on wood, but I'm beginning to suspect Mom is one of those anti-superspreaders that just naturally isn't very contagious. So far, this is her third ILI in a row in which nobody else showed symptoms, not even Dad. We didn't even take any protective measures against the second one, having mistaken it for carbohydrate withdrawal: our only evidence that it *wasn't* is that "keto flu" doesn't have post-acute sequelae.
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For the first few days I was going into the bathroom a few minutes before teeth-brushing or showering or other such maskless things and turning on the ventilation fan, but I think it was drawing in pollen. I switched to plunking my air purifier down in there for a bit before each maskless bathroom trip instead, and my throat seems happier now.
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As of Sunday, one week in, she reports that she feels back to baseline. She volunteered to continue quarantining until my surgery is over. She's sufficiently mobility-disabled at this point that the main difference is in whether her bedroom door is open to encourage other household members to drop in on her: I am still unlikely to encounter her without deliberately seeking her out, and I will probably continue to avoid that for at least a couple days while my body's repair mechanisms are already busy.
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I bought a dozen bottles of liquid yogurt, some pudding cups, some ice cream, a box of oatmeal packets, and a litre of milk. I was originally planning to buy the jug of "berry smoothie", but then I checked the nutrition information and it's very high in vitamin C (read: acid), so I got a jug of apple cider instead. Brother has agreed to make a batch of mashed potatoes for me tomorrow, and Dad will share some of his Ensure supplies. I'll probably make hummus later in the week: I doubt the oatmeal will be enough fibre.
(I seriously considered psyllium, but it's such a large package size for a product I've never tested and would probably only want for a week or two even if it worked out well.)
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Wish me luck.
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Portable air filters seriously rock.
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A mood. My lower wisdom teeth absolutely had to go (they were well past starting to cause problems), but I still had weird stress dreams on that theme during the run-up. I don't think I'd handle any larger amputation well.
Hopefully everything goes smoothly for you! From my own experience and other reports, the pain and much of the hassle usually subsides after the first three days (counting the extraction as day one). It sounds like you're very well prepared as usual.
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