if it's not one thing....
May. 29th, 2025 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkso the weather got decent, and I went into the garden to pull weeds. But I forgot to change into my weeding shirt*, and now I have a rash on my right forearm. It's not poison ivy, nor (this time) is it Queen Anne's Lace, but some random very sticky weed that we have lots of volunteering around the birdfeeders. If I notice, I can sometimes scrub off with exfoliant + soap and follow with antihistamines + cortisone cream and keep it from a big reaction; but this time I missed. :( So off to urgent care (after messaging doc, who is booking into next month!), where they pulled up my records and said "Hrm. This has happened before, the last time we gave you a steroid taper and a topical steroid. Will that be sufficient this time?" "should be." "Done. Hopefully we won't see you again." (yeah, I can agree with that.) I think I got this before the reaction got weepy and crusty, but I won't know until tomorrow. (one time, the swelling was so bad that they gave me a steroid shot in the office. don't want it to get that bad *ever* again.)
Still no external monitor at work, but I have a viable workaround. Poked into setup, and got background and window headers that I can live with. Discovered that the voter database has some really cool new features that will make my life as a Clerk of Elections easier. (N.B.: not a job that I really *want*, but is apparently one of the jobs I have.) BC will *not* be having shoulder surgery this year -- doc assessed her range of motion/strength and said "I don't recommend surgery at this time. Lotsa PT, but surgery probably won't help." As he's the guy who'd be doing the surgery.... (I saw him a couple of times, and he's good.)
I think I saw a Baltimore Oriole in the backyard today (I saw something with approximately the right coloring, but it was small and "dull". It's probably a yearling. The neighbors across the street get lots of Orioles, and I think they come to our house to drink/bathe.) This means I should dig out the feeder and make the syrup. J ate the blackberry jelly I use in the Oriole feeder, so I need to get more of that tomorrow when I go out. (Or not. Apparently, PastMe picked some up when it was on sale, because there's a jar in the basement.)
*my weeding shirt is long-sleeved with thumbholes that go under my gloves to keep prickly bits away from my skin. it's hanging in the laundry room next to the gloves.
Still no external monitor at work, but I have a viable workaround. Poked into setup, and got background and window headers that I can live with. Discovered that the voter database has some really cool new features that will make my life as a Clerk of Elections easier. (N.B.: not a job that I really *want*, but is apparently one of the jobs I have.) BC will *not* be having shoulder surgery this year -- doc assessed her range of motion/strength and said "I don't recommend surgery at this time. Lotsa PT, but surgery probably won't help." As he's the guy who'd be doing the surgery.... (I saw him a couple of times, and he's good.)
I think I saw a Baltimore Oriole in the backyard today (I saw something with approximately the right coloring, but it was small and "dull". It's probably a yearling. The neighbors across the street get lots of Orioles, and I think they come to our house to drink/bathe.) This means I should dig out the feeder and make the syrup. J ate the blackberry jelly I use in the Oriole feeder, so I need to get more of that tomorrow when I go out. (Or not. Apparently, PastMe picked some up when it was on sale, because there's a jar in the basement.)
*my weeding shirt is long-sleeved with thumbholes that go under my gloves to keep prickly bits away from my skin. it's hanging in the laundry room next to the gloves.
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Date: 2025-06-01 11:10 pm (UTC)K.
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Date: 2025-06-02 01:02 pm (UTC)My PI reactions are much faster than this "unknown" weed (FSVO -- I know which plant it is, I just don't know what it's called), and get bubbly and oozy within a day.