Of Computer Chatter And Medical Mutterings

A couple of months ago, when I thought - or hoped, to be more accurate - that I'd be having my surgery quickly, I scheduled all my Monday posts for the next couple of months. Then it turned out I was around so needn't have bothered. Not only that, but my attempts to lose some weight have had me going out more, so I've had several things worth posting about lately. Not to mention the various quiz things I've done, a couple of guest posts I've put up, etc. The result being that my worries about not having anything to share with you have turned in to me needing to use a whole lot of Tuesdays, as well as a couple of Thursdays, especially since I've been keeping topics seporated for the most part. I can't help finding it amusing.

In other mildly amusing technology related news: I found out why I wasn't getting my YouTube notifications. Turns out you have to enable them for the individual channels, not just say you want to get them on your main settings page. I'd assumed they were enabled, since I was ticking that box on my main settings page, and they were all enabled before. Apparently not though. When I went in to poke about in the settings - because it was bugging me - I discovered most of them were turned off completely in the "manage channel notifications" section, and those that weren't were set to only send me notifications some of the time. So I set them all to send me all notifications, and - funnily enough - have been getting my notifications ever since. At least, I've been getting a lot of notifications. I suppose it's possible I haven't been notified about everything. But I'm missing an awful lot less than I was for sure, so YAY! Now I just have to hope they keep showing up, since I haven't exactly had the best luck with notifications for things showing up in the past.

Anyhow, in other computer/internet related news: Facebook has decided not to let third party apps - like Wordpress and Twitter, for example - post directly to personal profiles any more. So my Twitter posts no longer automatically go on Facebook too (something Twitter, rather amusingly, only informed me about a couple of days ago... More than a week after I'd realized this was the case). Now I have to post everything twice (three times if I also want it to appear on my author page, because my Twitter posts aren't showing up there either, even though they're apparently still supposed to be, or four times if I also want it to go on Google+). I'm not complaining about it... It's no big deal. Having the stuff auto-post for me saved me a few moments, and I guess the little moments here and there do all add up. But never mind. I'm really just mentioning it so you know how things work now, just in case you were relying on posts from third party apps to post directly to Facebook for you, and haven't heard the news.

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This past Friday (August 10th) was my appointment to get my second shot.

If you don't want to read about periods, skip this paragraph. You have been warned! Anyway, either the shots aren't working at all, or they're not working properly. I'm not sure which it is, since either they're helping my bleeding not to be so heavy, or it's a coincidence that the bleeding is currently light for me. It could be either. All I know for sure is that I'm still bleeding, even though I officially shouldn't be. If this was meant to be a long-term solution, I'd want to make them do something that works better. After all, though the bleeding is lighter, I'm still bleeding constantly, which isn't any fun, as the women reading this will know, and any men braving this paragraph can probably guess. I told them hormonal treatments don't work properly for me, and am not surprised I'm still dealing with the bleeding. But, there you go. Anyhow, since this is only a short-term thing, with each day bringing me closer to my surgery date regardless, I'm just taking what I can get, and hoping whatever is making the bleeding stay light keeps doing so long enough for them to get me in for the hysterectomy, whether it's my own body or the shot doing it. Hey, at least the lighter bleeding is helping enough that I'm not dizzy constantly, but only get dizzy spells, which is a bit of an improvement anyhow. Like I said, I'll just take what I can get... For now.

Anyway, I had them weigh me again while I was at the surgery for my shot.

I'd really done all I could in the four weeks between shots to get as much weight off as possible. I went out for walks of various lengths a minimum of twice a week, made sure to get up and move around regularly while at home, was careful with what I ate, and all that. So I was hoping to have at least doubled my weight loss from the previous time. Even taking off the same amount would have been OK, I suppose. But I was hoping for a whole kilo of weight loss (which would be just over 2lbs). I mean, that's not too much to hope for with how hard I was trying. Just half a pound a week.

But the scales still said the samething.

I lost nothing. Nada. Zilch. I tried. I really did. But I didn't lose a thing.

I honestly don't know what more I can do.

As it is I'm pushing myself so much my blood pressure and heart rate are higher than they should be again, and I was given a warning by the nurse to take better care of myself, and to stop avoiding going to the hospital when the dizziness is bad (which she was able to figure out I'd been doing just by taking one look at me). She's concerned my iron level has dropped again, which is highly possible, especially since the shots aren't doing their job properly. Mind you, it's also possible it's stress - physical and emotional - that's causing the issues. Either way, she wants me to stop pushing myself so hard, and to go get checked out next time it happens.

The gynecologist wants me to do more. The nurse thinks I'm doing too much.

I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place, and I really don't know what I'm supposed to do.

Either way, my next shot is scheduled for September 7th at 11:50am. Just in case you want to know.

Anyway, one last thing today: Kelly FINALLY has his appointment to get the lump thing on his head drained. He's going in to get it done this coming Monday (August 20th). They originally told him it would be done within six weeks, but it actually took about twice that time for them to call him, and a further couple of weeks for them to actually fit him in. Not that this came as a huge shock to us, since it always takes ages for stuff to get done, especially when it's not an emergency situation. We're glad it's finally getting done now though. Partially because he wants it done out of the way, and partially because we were starting to get worried they'd drag it out so long we'd end up with them asking him to come in for it the same day he's supposed to be coming in with me to sign my paperwork for the surgery - whenever that will be.