This tech rehearsal feels like a scene out of a Marx Brothers movie.

Geez, erin, that sounds kind of awful. Boo pain!

I hope that the Marx Brothers part is not affecting you, ND--that it's more of the "hah, look at the ridiculousness" and not "OMG what are you people doing?"

I made a super easy shirt today. But it's not quite finished. I had to go buy more stuff, and then I got home and had to go to the gym, and then to eat. Now, though...now I will....uh, take a shower. And THEN I will finish it! ...good thing I didn't have any actual Saturday night plans or anything. Sigh.

Something really weird is going on with my blood sugar. At first glance seems good weird but ....

OK for a long time was a non-insulin dependent diabetic. The blood sugar went out of control so PCP put we on insulin. I did the increase-a-unit-at-a-time-until-you-reach-goal thing. Turned out that 50 units stablized me well - for about three days. But then one morning my fasting blood sugar was 56, which was dangerously low. That was after my evening blood sugar had been 209 which is not great. Since then I've been maintaining goal with NO insulin. My evening blood sugar was 126, and even without insulin I use a snack to raise to 140 to avoid a crash tomorrow morning. Going to talk with my doctor. But going from needing 50 units of lantus to needing zero is weird. No change in lifestyle. Same exercise and moderate carb diet I've had for years. The only change is my breakfast salad switched from spinach+chicken breast to kale+chicken breas salad cause kale was on sale. (I use homemade sweet dressing, so salad for breakfast is moderate, not low carb)

I'm glad your hip's better, Erin.

Typo, that is weird. Maybe kale really is the wonder food advertisers claim.

That's great, Typo. When I dropped my cholesterol 100 points my doctor's advice was, "whatever you are doing, keep doing it."

When I cut back on butter and eggs, my cholesterol goes up.

I didn't take anything away, just consciously added oatmeal and cinnamon. Also more fish, nuts, olive oil, but not to any great extent. I added oatmeal pretty much every day.

I would love that, Liese.

Dear Coworkers:

I've worked here for longer than the rest of you put together. I've known A for 8 years. I am far more than slightly familiar with her propensity to exaggerate and make up symptoms. The fact that she is capable of making herself throw up is not lost on me. The fact that she is making herself throw up together with shaking, sweating and complaining of abdominal pain four days after her final dose of clozapine and three days after her final dose of topiramate (the later of which she has taken for YEARS) after having had all of one solid meal in the last week tells me SOMETHING is up. For reals. I was just hoping to get some anti-nausea medication to help her through withdrawal when I called her psychiatrist today, but the good doctor reminded me that the reason for discontinuing the clozapine was that it was affecting A's heart, and that heart symptoms sometimes masquerade as digestive symptoms and so please to take her in to the ER.

I get that you all think she is just trying to get attention. Please tell me all you want to that she was starving herself for the last week to "play us". I don't care. Yes, some of this may be exaggerated. But some of this is real. And however much of it is real deserves real medical attention. I'm entirely confident that I did the right thing.

Lots of the kind of love you give dumbasses,

Me

P.S. Sometimes when a person makes themselves throw up, it is because they feel like utter shit and hope to get some relief by getting whatever-it-is out of their system.