My students had a midterm tonight, which means that I was drinking a lot of caffeine in order to stay up to grade it, which means that now I can't sleep.

I have a spectacular bruise on the back of my arm where I slammed into the toy box when I fell yesterday, but I'm not in much more pain than I normally would be on a rainy day.

Glad it wasn't worse, sj. Bubble-wrap~ma!

I'm hurting a lot, which is pretty typical for the day after an exam. I really hate exam days. I'd (stupidly) been planning to go into the office today, but I'm going to be working from home, because I really need to rest my ankle.

On jury duty today. Still in the jurors' lounge, fingers crossed it stays that way. Sorry for how behind I'm going to be at work, but enjoying the break. I finally got to watch the Hamilton Documentary (Hamildoc?), good stuff, though quietly ugly weeping at Alexander and Eliza's reunion while in the lounge is somewhat less than ideal. Now, on to library books! (And you guys, of course).

No meara from the phone, hugs and -ma are hereby allocated according to need.

Woot! Released for the day!

Yay Epic.

I have my glasses with the new lenses. Kind of wishing I'd bitten the bullet and gone for bifocals.

Not sure if this is something to do with the prisms and I'll get used to it but when I look at the computer screen it looks kind of bubbled out..but I can read things on the computer okay. Not really close up though.

I'm thinking November 2016 wasn't the *best* time to switch ADs. I can't tell if the constant sobbing and wanting to curl up under a table forever is at all related to new brain drugs or just a reasonable reaction to current events.

Heh. The AD I tried gave me an allergic reaction right before the election. I'm still dithering over what the next course is to take. I may ask my doctor to put me back on Lexapro, because I know it worked. Maybe since I'm in therapy now, I won't need to stay on it as long as I did last time, and it won't screw with my memory.

Also, I was kind of stupid about my blood pressure. When I went off Lexapro in March or April, my blood pressure dropped like a rock, so I went off my BP meds. Over time, my BP stayed normal for the first time in a long time.

But when I've gone to my doctor, my BP has been high. I told my doctor that it's normal on the BP monitor we have at home, and I even make Tim take his BP with it so that I know the monitor isn't broken. So he concluded that I have white-coat hypertension, even though I've never had it before, and it was all good.

But I've been getting a lot of tension, back-of-the-head, non-migraine headaches (though not everyone with hypertension has any symptoms at all). So it finally occurred to me LAST NIGHT to take my BP. Which was, in fact, SO HIGH (okay, only 145/98, which isn't remotely close to a stroke risk) (but it's still too high). And I even made Tim take his BP just so I could confirm the monitor was working.

Fortunately I still have the BP meds from when I stopped taking them, so I took 1/2 this morning (I honestly can't remember if I have to titrate back up to the last dose I was on). And when I checked my BP around noon, it was in that hazy area of "above normal but below OH MY GOD CALL 911 NOW." So I may have prevented a stroke. Woo, me.

Damn Steph, that is scary. Glad you listened to you body and caught it.

In Frankie news, peed in my room. Either two big pees, or one epic one. I've been treating him as soon as he pees outside. I'll give it a little longer but I may be buying a crate this weekend. It didn't go well the first time I tried to crate train him.