Half the family is in medical
Nov. 6th, 2025 08:27![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bill_schubertJust me and Toby left at home. Beaux went to the vet today to get a tooth extracted. I hate, hate, hate taking a dog who appears to be well and feels fine to the vet. But they say he's got a cracked molar so in he goes. I'm sure he's going to be fine but the little sucker has grown on me and I don't like being away from him and don't like thinking about him being knocked out.
I just spoke with Dana and will head over there soon. Beaux will be at the vet until fiveish this afternoon so I've got time. She sounds fine and is cheerful and is, apparently, wired up with her hair in braids and electrodes stuck to her scalp. Pictures will be taken. The docs are hoping she will seize again but I kind of doubt it will happen. It would be so nice if it did while she was hooked up. Regardless, she's in the neurology pipeline so we'll keep pushing it.
I've not met her neurologist but got this picture in Dana's chart:
I'm pretty sure she's still in high school. Weird how the world gets younger every year.
Other than that all is quiet here. Dana said something about 'what are we doing for Thanksgiving' and after nosing around some I found out that two of our friends are homeless for that day so we're having them here. SOOOO out of character for us. For me anyway. But it will be interesting. They are both very squirrelly (Mike and Bryant) but they will kind of zero each other out so it should be a normal ish day.
Now I've got to think about making food for four.
Speaking of which I'm hovering the edge of my scale calling me overweight rather than obese. It really doesn't want to and is resisting but I weighed under 200 (AKA 14.3 stone) for the first time in forever. The next day I was back up to 200 but not over so it will return. Down 30 pounds from where I started with maybe 20 more to go. The bottom end goal is kind of soft. The NIH types want me to be as low as 128 which would, absolutely, put me in the hospital. I had a thigh that weighed that much when I was cycling. I"ve been down as low as 174 as an adult and people said I looked sickly, too thin.
With age I can be a little heavier and I no longer have that dense muscle mass and dense bones so that throws everything off. I'm not going to worry about it much. Anything below 190 will make me and my doc happy. I'll see what my body thinks if/when I get there.
I just spoke with Dana and will head over there soon. Beaux will be at the vet until fiveish this afternoon so I've got time. She sounds fine and is cheerful and is, apparently, wired up with her hair in braids and electrodes stuck to her scalp. Pictures will be taken. The docs are hoping she will seize again but I kind of doubt it will happen. It would be so nice if it did while she was hooked up. Regardless, she's in the neurology pipeline so we'll keep pushing it.
I've not met her neurologist but got this picture in Dana's chart:
I'm pretty sure she's still in high school. Weird how the world gets younger every year.
Other than that all is quiet here. Dana said something about 'what are we doing for Thanksgiving' and after nosing around some I found out that two of our friends are homeless for that day so we're having them here. SOOOO out of character for us. For me anyway. But it will be interesting. They are both very squirrelly (Mike and Bryant) but they will kind of zero each other out so it should be a normal ish day.
Now I've got to think about making food for four.
Speaking of which I'm hovering the edge of my scale calling me overweight rather than obese. It really doesn't want to and is resisting but I weighed under 200 (AKA 14.3 stone) for the first time in forever. The next day I was back up to 200 but not over so it will return. Down 30 pounds from where I started with maybe 20 more to go. The bottom end goal is kind of soft. The NIH types want me to be as low as 128 which would, absolutely, put me in the hospital. I had a thigh that weighed that much when I was cycling. I"ve been down as low as 174 as an adult and people said I looked sickly, too thin.
With age I can be a little heavier and I no longer have that dense muscle mass and dense bones so that throws everything off. I'm not going to worry about it much. Anything below 190 will make me and my doc happy. I'll see what my body thinks if/when I get there.
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Date: 2025-11-06 18:15 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-11-06 22:15 (UTC)Sounds like the compound drugs are working like the proprietary ones which is a great result.
Good to know Dana's in good spirits. I was wondering if there might be some changes on the horizon - there's often a 12-month standdown from driving after seizures are diagnosed, for example. That kind of thing can often be harder to adjust to than the condition itself. But I'm still celebrating that it's not strokes!