Daily Check-In

[mecurtin]

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Thursday, May 12th, to midnight on Friday, May 13th (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #26993 Daily check-in poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 36

How are you doing?

I am OK
22 (61.1%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
14 (38.9%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
16 (44.4%)

One other person
15 (41.7%)

More than one other person
5 (13.9%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

Comments

[hitokage]

Had to send my emotional support furbaby, aka super foster daddy George, for an overnight stay With Strangers for his morning appointment to get neutered. He surprised me by not fighting going in the carrier (a strange experience he's only had a couple times in his life and we don't currently have a carrier for him, so added strange) and not starting crying his anxiety until he was out the door and being handed to Strange Not-Mommy Human. I'm sure he cried the entire car ride, though - he has even more anxiety than I do, especially when it comes to being separated from His People. We'll see how long it takes him to forgive me when he comes home tomorrow. :p

[mific]

Aw, hugs for you both!

[ratcreature]

Yesterday I tripped on the stairs, fell down a few, and have sprained my ankle. Generally my joints are very robust, so this is actually the first time I sprained anything despite being in my mid-forties, and it sucks.

I tripped as I wanted to go grocery shopping, but because my ankle hurt quiet badly I decided to rather limp back upstairs to my apartment again (thankfully I was only one flight down, not five). I rested and iced it, and can put weight on it enough to limp, and move and feel all my toes etc, so I don't think anything got broken or seriously damaged, but it still hurts today, and there's some more swelling now.

So now I have to figure out whether getting my groceries will be workable today.

On the upside I'm not too sore or bruised otherwise and my back only produced some twinges so far despite me falling on it.

[mecurtin]

Compression is part of the standard treatment--along with rest, ice, elevation--but since this is your first sprain you probably don't have a compression bandage in the house. Can you get groceries & a bandage delivered?

[ratcreature]

I actually had a basic compression bandage in my first aid kit, so I have done that as well. I've never tried the delivery thing because my main supermarket is just across the street from me, and delivery is more expensive, and every delivery person hates the steep stairs (the last flight to my apartment is even worse than the first four, because they built it with fewer steps as it used to be only the attic). And I also object to the whole gig economy model that groceries now use rather than some having a delivery service with proper employees.

I'm stocked up enough that I could feed myself for a while so it's not a necessity. I mostly wanted some fresh fruit, fresh milk (though I still have the long shelf life stuff in reserve) and bread (could make some in my bread machine), and look for veggies on offer (still have frozen stuff). So I could just not go.

But can walk on the ankle with only moderate pain, and no kind of movement leads to awful pain spikes, so I think I'll just try limping to the supermarket. Also because I want to move a little for my back, because I can feel it spasm and be unhappy in roughly the spot on my middle back where I hit it a little. I didn't tumble far or anything, basically missed a step and landed backwards mostly on my butt and only a little in my back, twisting the foot that missed and also a little the knee, though that barely hurts and isn't swollen (more like my mishaps normally go). It looks like I mostly escaped body soreness and bruises since little manifested after last night's sleep, except for the back twinge. That I really hope won't escalate into a back pain episode. That would really suck.

This whole vertebrate development path
and without water support for our weight no less, was so ill advised...

ETA: Success! I managed to limp to the store to aquire groceries and managed the stairs. Getting down turned out harder than back up.

[lexin]

I am randomly being unable to sleep, getting up in the night, wandering around...so I have contacted my doctor and have an appointment on the 23rd. We'll see what they say.

[ratcreature]

Glad to hear you managed to snag an appointment fairly quickly. Fingers crossed they can help.

Around here it sometimes takes ages to get an appointment these days, even with GPs, not just specialists, unless you have something acute and quite alarming... (or you have one the private insurances that pays higher rates -- they aren't supposed to discriminate, but that's only in theory...)