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[aslant]

three day weekend, i love you!

we have lined up: final cleanout of rental house, complete with uhaul van to take care of furniture donations. cookout with the family on sunday. maybe, finally, our giant trip to ikea if we're feeling up to it. for bookshelves, k's dresser, tv thing, assorted nonsense.

but also on saturday, i'm going for a trigger point massage to hopefully help with this searing pain in my leg. ow. stretching has not really been doing much, though sitting on a heating pad at night feels pretty awesome.

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i am getting over this weird virus that i thought was food poisoning at first. crampy angry tums. exhausted, never hungry; my mom said if it was food poisoning it would have left my system in some dramatic fashion, and instead i just had this lingering exhaustion all week. like, climb in bed at 7pm exhaustion.

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this morning we saw a nasty little egg thing in the cat's butt when she walked away from us on the bed. worms ahoy! it made me so paranoid. i caught pinworms once (didn't you really want to know that?) and it took paranoid hellish cleaning for like a week to get rid of it. all clothes in trash bags, every bed linen cleaned twice, etcetera. what a nightmare. i do NOT want to catch it from her, if it is a human-transferrable kind, so we are going to have to be extra crazy about washing hands and surfaces where she's stuck her butt and all that.

anyway. now we have to take a stool sample to the vet so they can give us the right kind of anti-worm medicine for her. we've had a stool sample kit FOREVER just sitting in the car's glove compartment waiting to start an awkward conversation. haha.



been listening to the ink spots on pandora, almost exclusively. would my every prayer begin and end with just your name? ghostly singing. so perfect and languid for these warm spring afternoons.

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[handstil.livejournal.com]

Oh geez, I had no idea you can catch worms from cats. Yikes. Our small cat is always getting worms because she eats flies and bugs, I guess? Fleas? Something.

I wonder if your sickness was a hormone surge? I had those at several points in my pregnancies. I would get extremely ill and tired for a few days every 3 months or so.

[aslant.livejournal.com]

i don't know for sure if you can catch ALL worms, but i think pinworms for sure can affect cats and humans. at least the kind i had was like that. fleas can be infected with worm larvae, which in turn affect the cat.

i have to keep reminding myself that the paranoia will burn out eventually, because the freaking pinworm eggs (not the kind that are visible in cat poop) are not visible to the human eye and they can hide ANYWHERE. so i'd have to, i don't know, nuke my neighborhood to even be sure one room was clean :D

iiiinteresting about the hormone surge. i definitely notice ups and downs with tiredness, almost like a growth spurt or something. there was definitely a virus-like stomach cramping going on (way above my uterus, thank god) and crazy tummy rumbling when i did try to eat. if this ever comes back, though, i will be more suspicious of hormones! it helps that my sister had a very similar, very low-level virus the week before me, so i probably caught it from her. the bad yogurt was probably a coincidence, i still think it was bad, just not bad enough to cause this level of fatigue/stomach symptoms.

[baatastic.livejournal.com]

Did you cuties decide on a name yet? (If you did and don't want to share I totally get it.) We're having fun getting used to calling her something besides "the baby." Although she still gets that, too.

[aslant.livejournal.com]

We did, and we're keeping it a secret. It is fun to call her little pet names, especially now that she's moving much more and making herself known :)