Hi hi! :D <3

I’m glad to hear it! I know pretty much no one is actually okay-okay these days, but this sounds about as good as it gets :)

I recall you telling me on discord that you got a diagnosis and medication and that it helps you immensely - i’m so glad you got this neurologist and that treatment works so well for you!

I just checked that we last really talked May 2020, and didn’t really read back what all we talked about, but that means you proobably know I live on Mallorca again, but that I was reasonably stable pain-wise.. In the time since i’ve done a spanish course and actually achieved a C1 level, which means I have a certificate saying I am fluent *ahaha*. I’ve definitely improved lots, but I’m.. a ways away from actual fluency.

But I’ve also deteriorated slowly over the last two years so that now I’m back at.. more pain than I feel I can handle on a daily basis (granted, the mental strain from the pandemic is *not* helping, but since you can’t just turn that one off..) I went and contacted my doctor. Which long story short I saw someone last week and he just went ahead and ordered *all* the tests. They’re stealing my bodily fluids in a week and a half and then a week after I get to talk about the results. I’m hoping for something that can be fixed with simple medication, but we’ll see. Any new knowledge would be useful to help deal with this and improve. I know it’s extremely unlikely I’ll ever be pain-free, but I’d like some energy and mental capacity back.

Anyway. Panic and despair about this topic have been put on hold pending further information. I’m trying to balance looking into things he’s having me tested for (bc i got like.. no info on if i’m supposed to fast before the blood it taken, or when to collect the urine sample) and not obsessing about things like “what if the test for celiac is positive” (then we deal with it when we learn about it. no use fretting).

I’ve not really done much more than learning Spanish and knitting, the last two years. Well, I was in Germany Feb/Mar 2020 and then not for a year and a half. We went again when we were vaccinated in July 2021, and then again for Christmas, where we got the booster from my mother-in-law’s neurologist (who was willing to do the paperwork to make the spanish health insurance pay for it, and update our EU-certificate; bc Spain in December still said ‘not before march’ for under 40s). Then, shortly before we flew back on 8.1. my father caught omicron. We were.. really lucky not to get it ourselves, and he was lucky that it only gave him a sore throat for some days but otherwise he was fine. He’d’ve had a booster appointment a week later..

But we made it back home, and I’m not leaving the house now :p (actually, I do. Just not terribly often and obviously masked up. Not that it would be legal not to do that.. but you wouldn’t know that from looking at the people. And of course having a mask mandate for everywhere outside is not helpful when you then allow the bars and restaurants to open at full capacity and ppl to take off their masks when they eat or drink.. but that’s another topic, and not one i’m allowed to linger on, mentally, bc I’ll want to sleep in seven hours or so)

anfscd: Minty teal hair? *-* Can I seeeeee? (doesn’t have to be public, if you prefer - you know I don’t show my face in public, but pm/discord is completely different)