Side eyeing my DexCom

[cornerofmadness]

And my whole life but mostly the DexCom. I was so happy last night. I was going to bed early. I had time to read and edit and all that which I haven't in weeks. I brushed my teeth and got into my nightgown and in five minutes the bed was spinning. WTF. I get up and get the dexcom read out.

Critical Low. It's below 50. OMFG. I was sitting right next to this thing and it didn't alert like it's supposed to. It bings like mad if I'm high but low is even more dangerous. I had to spend the next hour eating. I lost track of the sugar pills I ate and I polished off about a half jar of peanut butter (when I woke back up at 5:00 AM my sugar was still only 110 after all that) So much for going to bed early and getting stuff done. I moved the alarm up to 70 because I don't know what it was waiting on.

The neurologist's office calls me in class (naturally) and they can't get me in until April 8th and I'm like look I have appts in your clinic on April 15th. can you get me in then so I don't have to cancel two days of classes. They did that. So I have 3 appointments at once but it also works because the afternoon appts are with the vascular surgeon so if this is a vascular problem...


I come home to a phone message from Village MD. I have no idea who this is but I have a suspicion it's the other Dana in Texas. I call, give them my name and b-day and they pull me right up and start telling me about needing to make an appointment with my GP. I'm like who are you and where are you? El Paso TX. Yep, it's the other Dana. I said did you not realize this is not an El Paso area code? I explain how this chick keeps bumping on my insurance (not my new one) please don't call me.

We have our contentious work meeting but it ended up okay. I go to make dinner, pull forward my cannisters with the kosher salt etc. Remember the possible mouse situation? Yeah well I found where he was shitting. My entire counter behind the cannisters was shit. Fucking gross. Luckily I still have nitrile gloves (I have to clean in gloves and a mask normally because of my dust allergies) I had to scrub everything. I throw out any spice jar that was on that counter. I loathe mice in the house (outside I think they're cute) I think Rocket ate it. I haven't heard anything in a while. Shudders. I wanted to clean it with fire.

I was sad to see Michelle Trachenberg passed today.

I'm watching Death by Fame and the guy is a Podiatrist in FL and I'm not sure what is worse in this, that his wife is trying to turn their infant daughter into a model (to make up for her aborted career) or that he has the ability to buy her tens of thousands worth of stuff in one go. I'm a podiatrist, my friends are podiatrists. None of us are this well off so it's like man, where did we go wrong?

What I Just Finished Reading:

The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich, a fantasy sapphic rom-com. Too cheesy for me, all the wrong tropes
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What I am Currently Reading:


Disco Witches of Fire Island -taking me forever

Silent are the Dead - mystery if I hadn't bought this and if it didn't fulfill a reading challenge prompt I'd have DNFed it. I figured out what I don't like. Once again, the woman can't have her job and be happy. No she has to give it all up and come home (though I will admit, yes she'll lose some of her native culture off the reservation but it's like why couldn't she have used her job to help her people. why does it need to be this. Also solving 2 unrelated murders in 48 hours (book 1 being 24 hours and book 2 being the same) seems ridiculous.



What I Plan to Read Next: probably something from the popsugar line up plus the dozen arcs I have.