I'm not on most social media now, but for anyone who knows anyone who might be interested, we are auditioning for our next genderswapped Star Trek show, and there are some really awesome roles!
Please please please pass along or suggest this to anyone who likes Trek and/or acting and/or having fun :)
(we only have one audition date, but if someone is really interested and very unavailable, we can do some by special appointment, if need be.)
http://pmrp.org/auditions
Please please please pass along or suggest this to anyone who likes Trek and/or acting and/or having fun :)
(we only have one audition date, but if someone is really interested and very unavailable, we can do some by special appointment, if need be.)
http://pmrp.org/auditions
So this weekend we had planned a fun family trip to the cape, with nature walks, shopping, museums, and good food. We were going to leave Thurs and come back Sunday.
Thursday, L got sent home from daycare with a fever. We called the pediatrician and they told us not to worry, just to give him Tylenol and that we could still go on our trip. We delayed a day to see how things were going, and on Friday, L’s fever seemed a little lower and he just seemed sleepier, so we decided to go for it.
We got to the cape late afternoon, and had a nice afternoon tea, then walked around Heritage Museums and Gardens while L mostly slept or looked around at the scenery. We arrived at our B&B and went out for a walk around the neighborhood because L seemed happier in motion. On the way back, though, L threw up. We took him to the room and got him cleaned up, comforted, and put down to sleep. It was around 6pm. B left us in the room while he went out for some supplies and to get us takeout dinner.
L woke up while B was out, and I picked him up for a cuddle, but something seemed off. Then I noticed one of his hands was clenching and unclenching very quickly, in a weird way. I laid him on the bed and he didn’t cry, which was weird. His eyes looked up and to the side, and he wouldn't look at me. Then his whole arm started spasming, and he became totally nonresponsive. He started drooling out of the corner of his mouth, and his lips got a little blue.
I thought he was about to die.
Somewhere in the middle of this series of events I called B quickly to tell him to come back, and I called 911.
During the 8 minute 911 call, L started coming out of it. He whined and moved a little and kept looking like he was passing out, which I later learned is normal post-seizure sleepiness. I knew he was actually getting better when, while I was still on the phone with the dispatcher, he reached for his pacifier and tried to put it in his mouth, and I started tearing up with relief.
EMTs arrived around when B came back. They noted that L was tracking them around the room and they seemed spectacularly unconcerned — febrile seizure, they said. It's no big deal. You can take him in, or we can.
We took him to Cape Cod hospital. L was seen fairly quickly, but between all the various doctors and consults and exams, we were there for about three hours. For a couple hours after the seizure, L wouldn’t use the hand that had seized, but that got better by the time we left. They told us it seemed like benign febrile seizure, but that the one-sidedness was unusual and made it a little more concerning, so even though it was probably just fine, we need a pediatric neurology follow up.
We came back home the next day (Saturday), and after a fight to keep his fever down, L started to get better that night and seem more like his usual self yesterday. As the doctors predicted, a while after the fevers stopped, he got a rash. He’s grumpy now but mostly back to himself, and hasn't been feverish since around 5-6pm Saturday night. This morning his pediatrician pronounced him well enough to go back to school.
I’ve been shaken up and upset to varying degrees since the seizure. I know we've been reassured that L is overwhelmingly likely to be just fine. It was just an extremely hard thing to see and experience. I think I am still working through it.
L appears to have learned to clap this weekend. He has pretty good comic timing with it, too. :)
Eeeeeeeeeeeeee baby said mama for the first time actually appearing to mean me. On International Women’s Day!!!!
My heart is exploding in a good way. *grin*
My heart is exploding in a good way. *grin*
I just received a lovely and thoughtful bath-related gift in the mail today from an etsy seller with a sweet note but no name! It's not clear to me this anonymity was intentional, so would anyone like to identify themselves so I can thank them? I'd love to know who my secret gift-giver is! :)
So! It came to my attention that at least one person thought I had blocked them on Facebook. It's not true! I figured I might as well disabuse a few of you from potentially also having that same notion (and feel free to spread the word about this fact).
I actually disabled my Facebook account for a bit, because it was... not really helping out my mental health for a lot of reasons. I don't think my short-form social media interactions add nearly as much to my life as they take away, ultimately. I can do without the performativity, the politics, and the conflict. I disabled it around a week and a half ago and checked back in very briefly a couple of days ago, only to find I felt the same way. I deactivated it again.
Though it is of course your prerogative how to conduct your affairs, I do hope that those of you who would normally invite me to events will consider sending an email (or using an alternate invitation platform than facebook).
I deactivated my Twitter profile as well at around the same time. For a bit I thought I could move to G+ with the sorts of things I'd normally post on FB, but I decided to delete that too, late last night.
So now, it's just this LJ, which I don't anticipate going anywhere (I guess I've thought about making the move to dreamwidth. I actually colonized this name just recently in case of such an eventuality). LJ feels and basically has always felt good to me -- like a place where I can be open and honest about important thoughts, feelings, and experiences, without feeling like I need to portray myself in any particular way. I hope people continue to "live" here, and that friends and loved ones continue to read here. Even when I don't comment, I'm reading yours too, usually with great interest.
I don't know how long this hiatus will last, but so far, it's meaning that I'm reading books more, and feeling incrementally better generally.
I actually disabled my Facebook account for a bit, because it was... not really helping out my mental health for a lot of reasons. I don't think my short-form social media interactions add nearly as much to my life as they take away, ultimately. I can do without the performativity, the politics, and the conflict. I disabled it around a week and a half ago and checked back in very briefly a couple of days ago, only to find I felt the same way. I deactivated it again.
Though it is of course your prerogative how to conduct your affairs, I do hope that those of you who would normally invite me to events will consider sending an email (or using an alternate invitation platform than facebook).
I deactivated my Twitter profile as well at around the same time. For a bit I thought I could move to G+ with the sorts of things I'd normally post on FB, but I decided to delete that too, late last night.
So now, it's just this LJ, which I don't anticipate going anywhere (I guess I've thought about making the move to dreamwidth. I actually colonized this name just recently in case of such an eventuality). LJ feels and basically has always felt good to me -- like a place where I can be open and honest about important thoughts, feelings, and experiences, without feeling like I need to portray myself in any particular way. I hope people continue to "live" here, and that friends and loved ones continue to read here. Even when I don't comment, I'm reading yours too, usually with great interest.
I don't know how long this hiatus will last, but so far, it's meaning that I'm reading books more, and feeling incrementally better generally.
I am overjoyed to signal-boost the return of The Confessional. Over. Joyed.
http://aroraborealis.livejournal.com/1108702.html
http://aroraborealis.livejournal.com/1108702.html
Will you tell me something you like or enjoy or find delightful or appealing about me, friends? I'm leaving this post public/un-IP-tracked, so you can go anonymous if you like. Inappropriate is fine. Appropriate is fine. Small, big, anything.
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merry christmas!