Well, at least I've kept my time orientation up until the 4th of July straight this year... One of those fun factoids about me a few might have missed along the way, lol.
So the 'tick fever' is technically 'over' now, meaning the antibiotic has killed the germs, but I'm still living with the leftovers of rapid internal destruction, meaning my knee is still swollen and muscles all around it still a bit stiff, and I'm still in and out of chills and low grade fevers. I was told the severe fatigue could last all summer, so no guilt for lotsa naps. We checked for autoimmune kick on the off chance, and I'm super thrilled my SED is only 15. I'm nearly 4 years along now without a real autoimmune flare. I used to live with SEDs around 70 for months, eventually came down around the 40s, then finally the mid 20s, but it was always steady. Seeing a 15 in the middle of acute systemic attack is fabulous. That alone cuts back on extra 'complications'.
Since my knee swelled so hard and walking was impossible for a few days and the doctor sent me off for xrays and MRI and then to ortho, what's showing up out of that is ancient damage from an old injury (likely part of the being ejected from the flipping car thing over 35 years ago since it's near a nearly ripped in half muscle in my thigh from that era), and apparently I've been living with a 2/3 of a centimeter chip of thigh bone floating around the perimeter of knee cartilage and occasionally getting caught in awkward places that makes walking impossible and causes nasty pain when I try. I always thought my knee was going out of track and locking up, and I'd just wait it out and then I could use it again just fine, but nope, everything else is healthy and it's the fragment saying howdy. The doctor who can do the scope to get that out frequently couples up with the surgeon who is doing my carpal surgery, so I may get both those done on the same day at the end of August.
Synchronicities galore going on around that tick.
The fun part was ortho asking how in the world I lived with that this long (this is considered a high pain injury), which is testament to the amount of pain I was capable of enduring by the end of my teens.
I mentioned pins in dolls in my last post, well, people who wish ill on me really have no idea. The tick could have been well-timed karma leading to more healing, it could have been part of a fate wished upon me, possibly both bound up in a weird synchronicity, whatever. Accidents just don't happen around me. Everything and everyone around me is affected with weird synchronicity, and when I share something a little on the spooky side with someone is usually when they stop talking to me. My own family gets it, and we all just kind of accept it. Everything can be so chaotic around us and just keeps falling into place, all the bad keeps happening and we keep finding all the good. I've noticed that people who touch my life either heal with me or flee and hide. No one can hide from that, you know. Life is real and you will learn your stuff whether our paths cross again or not.
Moving on.
My to-do list is so far behind it's insane, but during all this challenge, Myke snuck in and did the impossible, which I've mentioned in a couple of places, and I have felt so grateful and re-inspired because of all that work he did that I've decided to really go all the way with commitment and take Lexxperience to the next level.
Myke and I have been developing a casual partnership for several years as I have been providing content and traffic pointing to SyfyDesigns,
and this year pretty much established family with several friends we share between movie gang and Snarkalecs (I'm talking about how we all got Holly that dryer in 24 hours flat). It's time to cut to the chase, as they say. I've worked hard on platform and presence, and I feel it's a good time to make my home with SyfyDesigns. Myke has always been there for me. This is how and when Myke and I met.
5 1/2 years is a long time, and I'm looking forward to what we can do in another 5 1/2, barring any more synchronous misadventures in my life, lol.
In keeping with our original watch parties, let us celebrate.
