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  1. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    Thank you for the commiserations. Saturday was a rough day. Sunday will be rougher. Mrs. Prof is going to be out on the TNR group's "Feral Cat Roundup" all day and most of the night. Any local cat histrionics will be left for me to deal with. I woke up at about 5:45 a.m. CDT after going to bed at around midnight. Just over 5 hours of sleep, but this one's my own fault. Mrs. Prof and I were up watching TV, listening to passing storms, and waiting for the Drum Corps International World Championship Final scores to come in. Now, I'm sitting here, trying to decide if I can go back to sleep or if I should just get some coffee. The 20mg dose has faded away, to coin a phrase, and I've just taken my first 15mg dose of the day and am waiting for it to kick in. Coffee usually helps. It helps me warm up, too, because if there's one word I can use to describe the way Mrs. Prof has set this house, it's cold. Coffee gets me past the morning chill. Screw it. Too many arguments in favor of coffee. I'm getting a cup.
  2. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    9:39 p.m. CDT 20170812. I've discussed it with Mrs. Prof. I tried to take a short nap after she got home, but pain from my ear, hip, and foot are just too bad. I'm going up to 20mg at night, effective tonight at 10pm. My two daytime doses will stay at 15mg each, for a total of 30mg. The total daily dose will go from 45mg to 50mg. Mrs. Prof agreed with the increase. Damn it.
  3. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    7:32 p.m. CDT 20170812. Mrs. Prof came home bearing cheesesteaks about a half hour ago. After the Zofran emergency, I was hesitant to partake, but it seemed to be just what I needed. I guess I'd let my stomach get too empty earlier. Even now, though, I only ate half of mine. I don't want to trigger another emergency. I did discuss the Zofran emergencies with my primary doctor. He seemed to understand what I'm going through, although he didn't see them as something unusual for a post-op bariatric person like me.
  4. The Weather.

    Big banging-arse thunderstorms coming at us from the southwest, moving northeast. Mrs. Prof isn't home, so I get to deal with the neurotic cats.
  5. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    4:56 p.m. CDT 20170812. Zofran emergency. I mean, how the hell do you get sick just from drinking a glass of tea?
  6. The Weather.

    Semi-good news, then, eh?
  7. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    Goes without saying. I'll ask for a referral to another doctor. It's the Texas Health *referral* department that worries me (Texas Health is the company he's affiliated with)—they sent me to Spine Team Texas. I'll see if he can put a more direct touch on it this time. He knows what he's doing—they don't always know. BTW, if you want to see who I'm going to, go here: https://www.thpg.org/benchmarkfamilyrowlett/provider/sean-g-parker-md-family-medicine
  8. Loudmouth's Journey Inside

    Another problem that Mrs. Prof brought up was that she's the only one doing all of this. I'm just flat-out physically unable to contribute here beyond a petting session, and even those leave me in horrendous pain because I've got to stand up to do them. Sitting down with a laser pointer sounds like it's not much effort, but when the cat's not that interested and when it hurts to sit in the right position to get him interested, well ... there's not much else to be said.
  9. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    7:12 a.m. CDT 20170812. Well, that didn't last long. I'm up already. Gave up and got coffee already. (Mrs. Prof got up briefly afterward.) Overall pain level around a six, with a seven in the ear and the foot.
  10. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    5:23 a.m. CDT 20170812. Here we go again. Five hours of sleep, thanks in no small part to my right ear. I'm going to stay awake until 6am and take my morning dose of hydrocodone, then try to go back to sleep.
  11. What Are You Watching?

    Aussie Rules Football on FS2. Geelong v Richmond from Simonds Stadium in Geelong. The home team leads 41 to 29 with just under 8 minutes left in the second quarter.
  12. Loudmouth's Journey Inside

    That's been the hard part. Since Loudmouth's arrived, Baker's lost all interest in toys and lasers. Indeed, he's focused like a laser on Loudmouth. Well, Mrs. Prof got the Elavil into Baker again tonight, so hopefully it'll have more effect tomorrow. RE: bed pee, we haven't had any in two days. Mrs. Prof has put litter box attractant in the boxes both days. Lord, I hope we've found a secret weapon, because I HATE having to lock up Loudmouth in the cat room overnight. I truly think that once we've broken through the bed peeing problem, we'll have two cats 24/7 who can practice getting along with each other.
  13. Last Post Wins

    I geek out over tastes. Unfortunately, most of them are tastes of things that are bad for me. Except coffee. I refuse to accept that coffee is bad for me.
  14. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    Justifiable vigilance is not a bad thing. I'm watching what I'm taking, and I'm staying true to my word. No increase before Monday, if an increase is warranted. Well, I was using my ear (which my primary care doctor thinks is developing a basal cell carcinoma and is painful to the touch, even by a pillow) as the #1 test, since it was the easiest item to judge if I was getting relief. It's been interfering with my sleep, especially getting to sleep. As it turns out, my back and my foot are valid indicators as well. Getting up, walking, bending, other daily movements—they all hurt. I just thought it would be easier to zero in on one item rather than have 14 or 15 indicators. Doesn't look that way now. OIC isn't a problem anymore, at least. (Anyone else, don't make me explain the acronym.)
  15. NP Fri Aug 11, 2017

    http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=654
  16. Loudmouth's Journey Inside

    I think Mrs. Prof is bringing Dumbass B home tonight. He'll probably bolt the second the trap is opened, so don't expect any photos. She spent some time at a volunteer meeting last night trying to hone her camera skills. We've got an old Fujifilm FinePix S6000fd digital camera (looks like an old SLR) that she uses instead of her phone camera. Still works great, even though the instructions have "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP" on the front page. Normally, she lets the camera fly on autopilot for cat pictures through cages and behind the glass. She decided to start learning how to fly it on her own last night. Said the auto settings came out better than her manual ones. I assured her that it'll just take a lot of practice, which is a LOT less expensive now that film isn't an issue. (You should have seen some of my experiments with an old Pentax K1000.)
  17. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    5:59 p.m. 20170811. Lots of entries in the chronicle today. The five hours on the left side didn't cut it for me. I switched back to the right side and took a long nap. I don't know what time I laid down, but I woke up around an hour ago. Overslept my pain medicine dose by a couple of hours. I'm going to have to extend my last dose of the day to make up for it, so that I don't overdose. Even though I overslept, it wasn't restful. My right ear especially hurts, and of course my back is sore. Damn this ear. It's going to force me to see another doctor.
  18. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    8:28 a.m. CDT 20170811. One thing I haven't noted during all of this is the effect of the Cymbalta, the drug that began this thread. That's because there hasn't been any effect that I can tell. What am I supposed to be watching for? There hasn't been any additional pain reduction or depression reduction. Maybe some extra sleepiness. Oh yeah, sleep. I fell asleep between midnight and one, then woke up around three. Stayed up for another hour, then slept until seven. I think that's about five hours. Mrs. Prof wasn't up yet.
  19. Loudmouth's Journey Inside

    Well, whatever it was, I calmed Loudmouth down with a good ten-minute-long nuzzling session (him doing the nuzzling, not me). Mrs. Prof and I agree: Loudmouth's probably the equivalent of an old geezer—like me—and, like me, he can't stand this darned kid chasing him around on the lawn.
  20. Loudmouth's Journey Inside

    Why the hell does Baker charge down the hall, chasing Loudmouth? Is it dominance? Play? Wanting to do damage to another cat that has entered his domain? I don't get it.
  21. Loudmouth's Journey Inside

    ... aaaand Baker has found his food! Of course, Loudmouth has been eating his own for some while now. Gravy first, then meat. Who thought of that idea for cat food? Where do cats get gravy in nature?
  22. Loudmouth's Journey Inside

    This morning, Mrs. Prof put Baker's food back where it had been before Loudmouth came in. We didn't see any real reason to keep it there, because feeding time had become so tense. Plus, it was dangerous, because we had to step over his tail when he was eating. That would freak him out further. Now, Baker hasn't eaten. Loudmouth has, but Baker hasn't. He's played with his mouth, chased Loudmouth, done just about everything else, and is presently lounging across the hall from where his food had been. But he isn't eating his food. I say give him the day to find it and eat it. And NO TREATS.
  23. Story Friday August 11, 2017

    f!Tedd has the closest thing she's ever had to a mother, and that mother is worried about hurting her. Strong foreshadowing.
  24. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    12:01 a.m. CDT 20170811. T minus one week, 12 hours and 19 minutes and counting until my pain management procedure. I'm still not 100% sure of what'll be happening, but I expect a full explanation on the day of the procedure. I just hope it's one where I don't have to be awake during it, because the doctor mentioned "an hour or two" as the time span. I don't think I could remain sane for that long with medical equipment inside me while conscious. The pain medication isn't helping yet. My ear is scary looking and still hurts. I think I'm going to sleep on my left side tonight, something I hardly ever do. Then again, my left toe and foot are throbbing from the pain of the break, so I'll have to deal with that. In short, The 45mg dose has until Monday to kick in before I bump it up to 50mg. Going to try and get more than 5 hours of sleep tonight. How I'll do it is anyone's guess.
  25. What Are You Ingesting?

    Ohmydearlord. HoWe Nuremberg Bratwurst breakfast links. Good lord. American sausage links have nothing on this stuff! Do yourself a favor and order it!!! Just make sure you don't cook it too fast, and that you add a few drops of oil to keep it from sticking to the pan. Don't even need a knife to eat it if you cook it right.