+_-
Apr. 22nd, 2025 07:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
totchipandaI do not know what is happening with my uterus. Has the period started or not? Yesterday AM I had a lot of action happening and then in the afternoon nothing at all. And then my body woke me up at 1 am bc I was having more action, that then had no evidence of continuing when I dragged my sorry carcass out of bed hours later. Are ya started or not! We're doing a road trip on Friday and I'd really rather not be worried about things bc I emptied the stupid thing and 20 mins later it's overflowing again!
Hilariously, the gynecologist's office had called yesterday afternoon. I'd requested a prescription that basically stops everything and initiates menopause temporarily while I wait for her to be available to do the IUD. I haven't started it yet because it's crucial to do it every 28 days and it's bloody expensive even with insurance. It can only be prescribed for six months and I would have been off it already had I done it. I said I could probably do it next month, and they said to let them know and they'd keep me on the waitlist.
When people ask me how this is going, I tell them that I am at the mercy of provincial public health. They usually just say "ah" and nod. Public health does have its downsides, but if my options are wait for months for a procedure for a non-life-threatening condition or pay $$$$$$ out of pocket like our maple MAGA premier thinks is just soooo much better, I choose the wait. Unfortunately, she is making people with life threatening conditions wait the same amount of time and at least one person has died before being seen by an oncologist. Also in my scrolling I saw someone talk about how they'd had a uterine biopsy done and fainted from the pain. I will be getting this done while under anesthesia for the IUD and I am very grateful.
Another fine evening of lumping. IDK I got stuck in Facebook scrolling which wasn't so much doom scrolling as most of what I was seeing was birds, crafting and recipes. But I'd gone there with the intention of finding a document I was pretty sure that I had seen in one of the groups about cleaning vintage sewing machines and forgot that every single time. It was only when I thought "ok socially acceptable time to go to bed" that I remembered the striped fabric.
Yanked it out and it most awkward way possible, naturally, and cut a corner off. It is NOT a knit fabric, it is woven. The back is smooth while the top has a velveteen-like pile. I burned a piece and I think it's a cotton blend. It did not smell like burning death. There was an almost-bead that broke up and crumbled into ash, but it left a melted edge on the rest of the piece. Poly or acrylic back, cotton pile? The most annoying part is that the stripes run horizontally. How am I supposed to work with that! (On the cross-grain, as you do.)
Very tired today, so I expect another evening of not much happening.
Hilariously, the gynecologist's office had called yesterday afternoon. I'd requested a prescription that basically stops everything and initiates menopause temporarily while I wait for her to be available to do the IUD. I haven't started it yet because it's crucial to do it every 28 days and it's bloody expensive even with insurance. It can only be prescribed for six months and I would have been off it already had I done it. I said I could probably do it next month, and they said to let them know and they'd keep me on the waitlist.
When people ask me how this is going, I tell them that I am at the mercy of provincial public health. They usually just say "ah" and nod. Public health does have its downsides, but if my options are wait for months for a procedure for a non-life-threatening condition or pay $$$$$$ out of pocket like our maple MAGA premier thinks is just soooo much better, I choose the wait. Unfortunately, she is making people with life threatening conditions wait the same amount of time and at least one person has died before being seen by an oncologist. Also in my scrolling I saw someone talk about how they'd had a uterine biopsy done and fainted from the pain. I will be getting this done while under anesthesia for the IUD and I am very grateful.
Another fine evening of lumping. IDK I got stuck in Facebook scrolling which wasn't so much doom scrolling as most of what I was seeing was birds, crafting and recipes. But I'd gone there with the intention of finding a document I was pretty sure that I had seen in one of the groups about cleaning vintage sewing machines and forgot that every single time. It was only when I thought "ok socially acceptable time to go to bed" that I remembered the striped fabric.
Yanked it out and it most awkward way possible, naturally, and cut a corner off. It is NOT a knit fabric, it is woven. The back is smooth while the top has a velveteen-like pile. I burned a piece and I think it's a cotton blend. It did not smell like burning death. There was an almost-bead that broke up and crumbled into ash, but it left a melted edge on the rest of the piece. Poly or acrylic back, cotton pile? The most annoying part is that the stripes run horizontally. How am I supposed to work with that! (On the cross-grain, as you do.)
Very tired today, so I expect another evening of not much happening.
