Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Klingon Food is Organic

It rather amazes me the things you don't notice about yourself when your sick. Very easy to focus only on how you feel and not what you look like. I've had another double round of Venofer and at the two week mark my skin has doubled in skin darkness. Unfortunately the headaches aren't entirely gone but what has been most concerting this week is two sleep paralysis events. Luckily today I was in atonia only partially and able to cover my eyes before the hallucination fully formed. It's also been the post-rem variety which is new to me. The past events that I recall were all the hypnagogic variety. There are good sides to this though because I have found two trigger foods for severe nightmares, cheese and sugar. As for my tachycardia which kept me over night at the local hospital and under thirty day monitoring, blame has not been assigned except perhaps some sort of unknown environmental trigger.

It is my skin recently which has been showing distress. Besides light sensitivity I've been worried about the condition of my scalp which may lead to hair loss. I even had my husband search for a bald spot as well as check myself with my brother in law's "balding" mirror. School has been incredibly stressful with a too serious teacher and tighter end of week deadlines. Just now I am on my third day of a week long break before the next quarter starts. I'm also looking forward to Halloween for which I assembled an elaborate costume. I also went ahead and finally purchased a star trek uniform this year. Hopefully the size will be big enough but now I feel guilty for having two costumes available. Since I'm a bit of a Trekkie I feel I'll have to build a background for my character which I already did with a cardassian character. So my TNG-era science officer will have some decent rank and be focused on xenoanthropology...not to far from what I've actually studied. I'm tempted to buy accessories which is just silly but I can make due with some old electronics I have that with a few stickers and a charge would light up like tricorders.