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mistressofmuses) wrote2022-08-13 08:51 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2022-08-13 08:51 pm
Misc.
- Patrick, a friend I JUST SAW playing at the Voicecoil show a week ago, had a heart attack yesterday. He was flight-for-life'd down from the mountains into the metro area and was in the ICU as of yesterday, but doing better. No update today. If we can find out whether he's allowed (and wants) visitors, we'll try to go visit him. He's only in his 40s. He's younger than Alex.
- As always, I'm beyond ready for my workweek to be done. Today was a mildly rough day. Not a bad one so much as busy. I kept it together pretty well and got a lot of things done that could have gotten out of hand. (Customer Care was super busy, and had 20-some that hadn't been answered from yesterday, I was the only one who returned any online support voicemails, I had a single-day class that was at-capacity, AND helped sort-of facilitate a pseudo-retirement party for our Lead Instructor, for whom today was the last day in the role - she's joking about how she's excited to finally drop down to full-time.) It felt a little nice that the mildly high-maintenance (but not badly so) instructor for the single-day class gave me a hug and told me to please never leave because I'm the only one who makes the class go smoothly, haha.
- Writing is going all right. I didn't manage any last night, but most nights this week I did. I'd hoped to finish the rewrite by the midpoint of the month, and that won't be happening, but the progress has been steady enough that I'm not too upset. Maybe I'll get a bit more done once my weekend hits, though we'll see what if anything we wind up going to do.
- My dad is going to be in town for part of next week, so we'll probably get together for breakfast. I hope his trip isn't cut short by covid this time.
- I've had a frustrating thing happening lately, which I suspect is some sort of mental fatigue. But I've been having a very hard time both typing and writing, mostly because I keep transposing letters. When typing, it's primarily that my hands seem to be operating at just slightly different speeds, so if I try to type at full speed, one hand's letters get typed faster than the other's, which makes the words a bit of a mess. It makes less sense when it comes to handwriting - but for the last week or so I've been struggling with that as well, again, mostly swapping two random letters mid-word.
It's pretty mild, and today it was less of an issue than it has been the rest of the week. The night before last when I was working on writing I was ready to chuck my damn laptop across the room because I was getting so frustrated by it. If I slow down some, it's less noticeable.
- Vaguely related (or not) to the above, early this week I had a lot of frustrating hand weakness. That's something that's been a thing ever since I was a little kid - particularly if I laugh (or when I was a kid, sneezed), my hand loses ALL strength, to the point I can barely hold a pen, and *definitely* can't write.
A few years ago, I heard about this (hand weakness specifically when laughing) as a symptom of narcolepsy. I don't think I have narcolepsy, lol, but it was very weird to hear ANY mention of the symptom. I complained about it as a kid and never got anything more than "well that's weird" and "maybe you need to do some exercises to build up muscle tone." Of course, I can't find much mention that ISN'T related to narcolepsy. It's not serious enough that it really bothers me anymore, and I can go many months without it, but it was also happening early this week, which was weird and annoying. But the human body is fucking weird.
- As always, I'm beyond ready for my workweek to be done. Today was a mildly rough day. Not a bad one so much as busy. I kept it together pretty well and got a lot of things done that could have gotten out of hand. (Customer Care was super busy, and had 20-some that hadn't been answered from yesterday, I was the only one who returned any online support voicemails, I had a single-day class that was at-capacity, AND helped sort-of facilitate a pseudo-retirement party for our Lead Instructor, for whom today was the last day in the role - she's joking about how she's excited to finally drop down to full-time.) It felt a little nice that the mildly high-maintenance (but not badly so) instructor for the single-day class gave me a hug and told me to please never leave because I'm the only one who makes the class go smoothly, haha.
- Writing is going all right. I didn't manage any last night, but most nights this week I did. I'd hoped to finish the rewrite by the midpoint of the month, and that won't be happening, but the progress has been steady enough that I'm not too upset. Maybe I'll get a bit more done once my weekend hits, though we'll see what if anything we wind up going to do.
- My dad is going to be in town for part of next week, so we'll probably get together for breakfast. I hope his trip isn't cut short by covid this time.
- I've had a frustrating thing happening lately, which I suspect is some sort of mental fatigue. But I've been having a very hard time both typing and writing, mostly because I keep transposing letters. When typing, it's primarily that my hands seem to be operating at just slightly different speeds, so if I try to type at full speed, one hand's letters get typed faster than the other's, which makes the words a bit of a mess. It makes less sense when it comes to handwriting - but for the last week or so I've been struggling with that as well, again, mostly swapping two random letters mid-word.
It's pretty mild, and today it was less of an issue than it has been the rest of the week. The night before last when I was working on writing I was ready to chuck my damn laptop across the room because I was getting so frustrated by it. If I slow down some, it's less noticeable.
- Vaguely related (or not) to the above, early this week I had a lot of frustrating hand weakness. That's something that's been a thing ever since I was a little kid - particularly if I laugh (or when I was a kid, sneezed), my hand loses ALL strength, to the point I can barely hold a pen, and *definitely* can't write.
A few years ago, I heard about this (hand weakness specifically when laughing) as a symptom of narcolepsy. I don't think I have narcolepsy, lol, but it was very weird to hear ANY mention of the symptom. I complained about it as a kid and never got anything more than "well that's weird" and "maybe you need to do some exercises to build up muscle tone." Of course, I can't find much mention that ISN'T related to narcolepsy. It's not serious enough that it really bothers me anymore, and I can go many months without it, but it was also happening early this week, which was weird and annoying. But the human body is fucking weird.
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Oof, I hope your friend recovers smoothly. That can't have helped with your stressful week.
Sudden weakness sounds neurological to me, so I'm not stunned that narcolepsy would have symptoms like that. Certainly odd though. Hopefully it passes and leaves you alone.
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I'm sure you're right - it has to be neurological. Maybe sudden unexplained weakness could have a physical cause like a pinched nerve or something... but the fact that I've had this intermittently since I was a child (vivid memories of first or second grade getting in trouble because I couldn't hold a pencil to write with), plus it has a deeply weird yet consistent cause (laughing or sneezing) makes me think it's absolutely a brain thing.
Fortunately it's improved as I've gotten older, and this is the first time in a pretty long while that it's happened more than once in a short span. Though I do hope it quits and leaves me alone again, haha.
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I've struggled with weird hand problems. It's so frustrating because you need your hands for everything, especially in the digital age.
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Weird hand problems are so annoying! That's very much it - I have to use those for everything, I'd like them to work the way I want! (The miserably shaky-hand issues I have are annoying enough, but I don't need more problems!)
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And I hope the mental fatigue eases up soon.
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Same here - I'm at my "weekend", so I'm hoping for some sleep and recovery time.
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How ironic that you got complimented by the high-maintenance instructor. *g*
Oh man, I sometimes have issues with my hands typing shit wrong, too! I feel like it's when I've been typing too long or am getting tired. I hope your mental fatigue passes quickly.
Huh, that is weird. o_O Since someone above mentioned neurological, I wonder if you could as about it from that angle and get different/more/better answers?
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Haha, right? I like the instructor, and we've worked together enough to have a good workflow, but it's still a bit funny to get the "PLEASE NEVER LEAVE" kind of reaction, haha.
Yeah, usually I start really getting bad typos when I'm starting to get tired. Lately it's seemed to happen no matter what, which is why I think it's some slightly deeper fatigue. I'm hoping I can shake it soon!
It definitely seems neurological - clearly a weird brain thing of some kind, to laugh or sneeze and lose muscle control in my hands? That sounds like a software bug that we need to get the developers on, haha.
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