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.

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So Medicaid has finally snarled its feisty head and snapped at my doctors. My sleep study was cancelled by my Insurance HMO despite all criteria being met and severely desired by my primary physician. I believe I may have hit a internal spenditure amount for this month.

On Tuesday I'll have to break the news to my primary physician at my physical. I don't think he knows about me seeing a hematologist either though the later claimed to be a close buddy of his anyway.

This afternoon I had a odd moment talking Star Trek with my sister. It ended in a cold stare as I defended the Enterprise series to her and she remained unreceptive. I did notice her flub up when he mentioned a non cannon source as proof positive that Enterprise doesn't belong. Our best moment was in agreeing that the series is continuital with TNG not the TOS films. Yes her focus was on the films not the actual 40 some episodes featuring Kirk and Spock. She can't get past he comments made at the time of Enterprises release that the Vulcan characters were very emotional. As far as I'm concerned that's idiotic because Spock is a perfectly fine personality model especially for TPol who even says that extended stay on Earth loosened her habits. She also had heard that they change every species this way to which I explained that only a few were known to us shortly after first contact and the rest were individual to this series incarnation. Until my sister can sit and watch it with a open mind she'll never see it real value.

My back has been killing me since the infusion along with my flanks. I hope my kidneys can survive this stress.

Enterprise Season Three

So Archer grows balls and TPol loses hers. The whole Xindi storyline seems like epic writer fail.

I can see why the show lost love but then you get to the episode "Extinction" and suddenly Bacula does some great character acting behind that makeup.

Reasons to Hate Enterprise

So Hulu is streaming Star Trek: Enterprise and I couldn't resist. I never watched it during release because of all the negative comments about Rick Berman ruining the franchise. There was also a old theory that each of the later series caused the others cancellation. Of course this isn't necessarily true. Scott Bacula was another thing I was hearing ruined the show along with 'highly emotional vulcans'.

As I'm watching I can see quite a few reasons why Enterprise didn't earn Trekkie devotion but it's not what I expected.

So why hate Enterprise?

The ship is small, filled with mostly humans and the technology is familiar. This might turn off most people but the character development makes up for the lack of species diversity. The acting is actually VERY good. As for the technology, the production actually put good thought into placing the show into the appropriate time setting. The ship itself is similar but nothing is coated or touch paneled like the later series. Instead we have a metal and monitor . The door panels and wall comm for example follow the style of TOS. I think these elements reinforce the storyline.

The writers have there own great jokes as well. T'Pol rarely goes an away mission without mentioning that a directive or protocol should exist for something. Most episodes have at least one scene of semi nudity or romance. A lot of the stories might be scene as fan service but Enterprise is in a peculiar place to close plot holes.

So beginning season three the only thing I can really hate is the theme song. This series is the first to feature actual singing in the title and I hope it's the last.

Seizure like a boss

You know it's wonderful having good days where a headache is the biggest problem I face. It's even better having a great week but then the wall hits you.

Since my gallbladder removal I've had two large gallstone attacks. I expect to be symptomatic for at least a year.

My neurological problems had gone fairly silent. A little tremor here and there but nothing major. I finished watching most of the Star Trek series and began some silly web hobbies.

Then I woke up unable to speak with vertigo do bad I couldn't walk or sleep. This was a major factor in my original hospitalization. Luckily nausea wasn't apart of this day so I was able to wait it out. My sleep has become heavily disrupted again. Today I happened to oversleep by four hours.

The seizures have showed up again. Depending on severity the symptoms are slightly different. For my drop attacks I usually just get weak legged and have repetitious movements or words. Full episodes are much more elaborate.

I usually don't have time to notice small changes. The most obvious factor is a feeling of panic followed by a overwhelming tiredness. At that point I usually notice some nausea and tremor. If I don't get to a bed in a few minutes I would fall and hurt myself so you'll often see me book it for the bedroom grasping the walls as I go. Once it starts I have the strangest feeling of a traveling contraction/pressure in my brain. My jaw will often ache and lock shut. Shuddering and writhing begins mostly on one side but as the episode progresses will cycle through the whole body. About ten minutes into the spasms I lose my ability to communicate. I have yet to find if it is my voice box or the speech center of my brain.

My longest seizure episode lasted about four hours but have have been aftershocks following a single occurrence. During this time I couldn't speak for about two hours after. My voice came back very slowly like a whisper. Eventually I was at about half volume which was good enough for me.
After a seizure I am always tired and my body is often dead weight.

Today I had the warning signs which was why I'm posting. Nothing has happened yet but I've been known to have warning signs up to three days before a occurrence. This no doubt commands the rest of my week, like a boss.