Taking a day off
Jul. 29th, 2009 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceriThis heat is really doing a number on me. Today was actually the hottest day ever recorded at Sea-Tac, since they started monitoring on the location in 1891. So it's not just me.
Part of my chronic health woe is an interlocking set of metabolic problems, and high temperatures through my body's production and consumption of this and that out of whack. I get episodes of disorientation that are very much like petit mal seizures. They're officially not seizures because they don't produce the EEG traces required for a seizure diagnosis, so they're "seizure-like episodes", or in my casual usage, "zonks". I've been on the edge of one all day and expecting it to hit sometime before I go to bed, and expecting some more trouble tomorrow.
So my plan is (assuming one hasn't already hit by the time I go to bed) to just log out of IM and stuff at bedtime and leave it off tomorrow. I may check e-mail, and may reply to blog posts and such, or I may let it pile up.
I want to make it clear that this isn't actually a super bad situation for me. Time was I'd be having those things several times a week, sometimes multiple times a day, no matter what I did, and I'm staggered with happy surprise to have gotten through so much heat this week without one yet. I take it as a clear-cut sign of progress - the cumulative benefit of psychological and physical improvements. But it's like working with a body part that once had a major injury. Sometimes it's wise not to push it too far, and to give it a little extra recovery time even though it's not being really bad right at the moment.
So I'll see y'all on Friday!
Part of my chronic health woe is an interlocking set of metabolic problems, and high temperatures through my body's production and consumption of this and that out of whack. I get episodes of disorientation that are very much like petit mal seizures. They're officially not seizures because they don't produce the EEG traces required for a seizure diagnosis, so they're "seizure-like episodes", or in my casual usage, "zonks". I've been on the edge of one all day and expecting it to hit sometime before I go to bed, and expecting some more trouble tomorrow.
So my plan is (assuming one hasn't already hit by the time I go to bed) to just log out of IM and stuff at bedtime and leave it off tomorrow. I may check e-mail, and may reply to blog posts and such, or I may let it pile up.
I want to make it clear that this isn't actually a super bad situation for me. Time was I'd be having those things several times a week, sometimes multiple times a day, no matter what I did, and I'm staggered with happy surprise to have gotten through so much heat this week without one yet. I take it as a clear-cut sign of progress - the cumulative benefit of psychological and physical improvements. But it's like working with a body part that once had a major injury. Sometimes it's wise not to push it too far, and to give it a little extra recovery time even though it's not being really bad right at the moment.
So I'll see y'all on Friday!