Kat , I know you have enough craziness now, but talking to a lawyer or union rep would be a good idea

and good luck , JZ.

My father was a pilot, so I have been flying forever. Flying has changed. United is rarely on time now. As in I think they need to start giving food to people to help keep them coffee. Martini's would also be good. Oddly -I felt worse for the parents - that had schedualed flights so the babies would sleep. a 3 hour delay - purely due to lack of crew ( that was not weather delayed - just badly schedualed) really messed that plan up.

and I one who drives, but would like the ability to skip it some days. I know there are times when it would be better if I wasn't driving.

This country needs high-speed rail.

ION, I have just discovered that Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space is on DVD....

This country needs fucking teleportation. If it existed, I'd get up at my normal time and be able to do early morning and evening childcare for FREE for my friends spread far and wide (um, and play with neato kids) and still hold a job.

ita, orthostatic hypotension could explain the fainting, anyway. How do you feel about soy sauce? It's seriously loaded with sodium.

I've never been afraid of flying. Flying is safe. Driving is dangerous.

I have lowish blood pressure, and have always had wild cravings for salty foods. Coincidence? I think not!

(Mine are usually dill pickles, and sometimes artichoke hearts over salad. My stepsister used to put salt on raw cucumber slices, which I thought was gross when I was 10, but now I'm an adult I've tried it, and it's pretty good.)

ita - clearly you need to eat more sushi - being sure to dip your sushi in the soy sauce.

I love eating raw cucumber with soy sauce.

What Nutty said. ditto with the ridiculously low bp.

Plus olives.

Also salted cashew nuts.

and just - .... anything with salt. Yum. The Terra chips especially... the sweet potato ones and the dasheen ones.

... ahem.

This is going to sound ridonkulous, but one of my migraine triggers is strobing lights - especially camera red-eye flash and really crappy CRT screens. There was one in an office where I had to work sometimes that could set me off about three minutes after I walked in the room. Flat screens better.

See, my ridic low bp has always gone hand in hand with a violent distaste for the salts. Low sodium soy sauce in my cupboard, that's for sure.

orthostatic hypotension could explain the fainting, anyway

I think that's what they're ascribing it to. All my tests come up clean. But it finally went far enough that I fainted and concussed myself again, so more drastic measure to control it have to be taken. Increase in salt (thank you guys for the suggestions--this place is great) and tweaking one of the anti-migraine meds.

Thalidomide, huh? It feels like such a dirty word.

Bacon salt, on the other hand...

Unrelatedly (no, really) I've been trying to watch Henry & June for what feels like days. It's okay to be suicidal, about two hours in, isn't it? Will anything ever happen? It's managed to bore me out of my intentions to read Nin, although I'd still putatively name a daughter Anaïs.

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but one of my migraine triggers is strobing lights - especially camera red-eye flash and really crappy CRT screens

You know, I have never been able to see flickering refresh rates. People used to bitch about my CRT at my last job--the refresh rate was low because I had the dpi so high, but I couldn't tell.

It's not like I get fewer headaches not working there anyway. Other strobing lights do bother me. Hell, stripes can set me off. Backlit venetian blinds are a recipe for pain.

although I'd still putatively name a daughter Anaïs.

Now I'm imagining that she exists in some other reality....

"I'm ita's putative daughter Anaïs. Yeah, everyone refers to me as putative because there's that one reality where I don't exist. You know, the one with the shrimp and the single Wednesday per week - the one that's not crazy-melty land...."