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Oh hio.
\nGot did the sleeping EEG today.
\nIt went… okay. I guess. I had a hard time with the sleeping part. I kept stressing in my head. “You have to fall asleep”. “Why aren’t you falling asleep?”. “What if you can’t fall asleep?”. Etc. I didn’t really feel like I got any real deep sleep. A couple of times I felt like I dozed off a little, but not really sleeping much. When I told the doc he just laughed and said nah. Apparently I got some time in stage 2? I don’t know, I still feel I barely slept if at all, but if they’re happy with what they got then that’s what matters.
\nAt least it’s done now.
\nWhen they “woke me up” they had me do the same blinking\/lights and hyperventilation stuff that I did at the first EEG. I still really don’t like the hyperventilation. Three minute. It’s rough. The student helper doc said “your fingers may tingle a little”. Yeah, more like they buzzed numbly for 6-8 minutes. I think my face buzzed less than the first time I did it at least.
\nAnyway. It wasn’t fun. Triggering a lot of anxiety. But it was fine. And if the sleep I did was good enough, then I guess I can count it as successful. We’ll see if I get any useful answers out of it. Sure would be nice! They’re going to send the results to the neuro clinic and then they should get in touch with me and tell me what’s what after the MRI and EEGs. I guess it’ll probably be a couple of weeks.
\nThanks again to my mother for coming with and helping me find my way. She had plan to do her knitting while she waited. But there wasn’t a chair outside the room, so she ended up sitting on a chair inside the room with me. And they turned off the light. Must have been boring for her!
\nBut she even paid for taxi rides back and forth, which made it a lot easier. I am thankful for the help.
\nAnd I barely had problems with the revolving door.
\nGonna grab me a big pot of noodles now and try to relax.
\n26\/10 2026<\/a>
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Hey wait, I got a new complaint.
\nWell, an old one really. My ventilator again.
\nRemember how much frustration it used to cause me? I’ve had it covered since then, not completely blocked but severely dampened.
\nWell yesterday it started getting louder and louder. My coverage failing. I didn’t ahve the energy to deal with it. I went to bed. With my earplugs that I always use because of all the noises all around, I didn’t hear the ventilator.
\nWhen I got up today I heard it through earplugs. It felt louder and more powerful than ever before.
\nSheesh, that thing is annoying.
\nI took my coverage completely off to look at it. To my surprise I found I could turn it now. It’s a round one. Back when Helle and others were trying to help me with it, I think she said that other people could adjust theirs by turning it. But none of us could manage to turn mine, it seemed completely stuck as it was. But now I could turn it. Weird. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to actually have much effect to turn it. It’s not like I can set it to a really low setting. Maybe helps a little, but not enough. Weird.
\nI don’t have the capacity to deal with it right now. I stuff cloth in it to help dampen it a bit. I guess I will cover it up again, maybe completely since we’re heading into the real cold season.
\nBut then a plot twist. I got a message from the housing assoc. Informing my block that there is a problem with the ventilation system and they have called a service guy to get it fixed as soon as possible. Okay. So I guess it wasn’t just my coverage failing? Something with the system too. I don’t know. There was a storm yesterday, maybe something got knocked off on the roof.
\nI wish the message said whether “as soon as possible” means later today, or this week or whenever. They still haven’t managed to fix my access to the water\/electricity\/heating measuring system, after 3\u00bd months..
\nAnyway, I guess I’ll wait a day or two and see if they get it fixed, if it gets better, or if I still have to cover it all up.
\nI’m just tired. of everything.
\nYesterday I knocked my remote on the floor and broke it. That might not seem like a big deal. But I need the remote to change the TV to the computer input to use my computer. I don’t even know if there are buttons to operate the TV physically on the TV, I have never used them. I mean, there must be right?
\nThankfully I had a replacement remote that I got a few years ago in anticipation of such a problem. A generic remote replacement. And thankfully it works. It’s not as good, but I can do the basic TV functions.
\nJust feels like there’s constant sht.
\nI was planning to get up bright and early at 7.30 today. Got up around 10 instead. Ah well. Not good constant sleep, more like waking up and dozing off again. But it’s nice to get some sleep. At some point I need to get a proper sleep study done. Not a sleeping EEG like yesterday that monitors my brain. But one that monitors my sleep. Because I need help with that.
\nAnd I need help with my back.
\nAnd with my ventilator.
\nAnd with everything else. I feel like I’m barely coping.
\nI’m having pizza today. Because I want to. Hopefully I can get exercise in tomorrow. If I can get out of bed.
\nTra la.
\nI wish that damn ventilator would shut up. It’s like having a motorboat in your house, that constant noise. And not the fun kind of motorboating.
\n27\/10 2026<\/a>
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\nTo lighten things up, here’s a joke from my fave podcast today:
\nOh you don’t like ghosts fucking owls?
\nBoo fucking hoo!27\/10 2026<\/a>
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\nWell, it’s a great day to be a Billy Corgan fan!
\nAt least this might take the attention away from the music he has released the last decade or so….
\n27\/10 2026<\/a>
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\nI don’t know what Crystal Pepsi is, but I want some.
\n27\/10 2026<\/a>
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