Status update, morning of 2023-08-01
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brin_bellway[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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Date: 2023-08-01 03:38 pm (UTC)