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onepageatatimeIt's been a long week. Both H and I dealt with various issues. For H, it was headaches (of multiple causes/types, apparently). For me, it was my mouth (as I mentioned behind the cut in last week's post).
I am still not sure whether I've been dealing with one issue or two. A couple of days of decongestant helped one of the issue, but was not the entire story. I also had some pretty intense sensitivity to cold in one area of my mouth. I am being slightly optimistic in using the past tense for that sensitivity, but it has gotten a lot better. Yesterday, it only bothered me briefly (and when I took a bite of hot or room-temperature food, it eased the pain quickly). Today was the first day in something like a week that I didn't even consider Advil before breakfast.
I'm still being cautious: using a straw for drinking so I can try to avoid the sensitive area more easily. When I ate my bagels for breakfast, I tore them into smaller pieces with my hands, so I wouldn't have to be as forceful with my biting. But… even getting to point where I know what makes it hurt has been a longer-than-usual process with this one, so… it's good to be able to be in a little bit of control now.
Yesterday had one of those major minor successes in life. H had signed up for a virtual art museum tour via Zoom. So we settled in at the appointed time yesterday morning, and, as the speaker began, we started hearing a chirping smoke detector every little while. It was certainly irritating. As time went on, and he didn't apologize for the noise, I started noticing that the sound was reflecting in the apartment in ways I wouldn't have expected if it was coming from the Zoom.
So the first step, figure out for sure whether or not it was coming from the Zoom presentation. I got my phone's stopwatch app open, and measured: it was chirping every 31-32 seconds. So I prepared the remote control, and muted it for a few seconds around the next chirp. And we didn't hear it. Aha! It's not on the Zoom, so that means it's coming from our building.
Second step was confirming where the sound was coming from (either where within our apartment or whether it was from a neighboring unit). Very quickly narrowed it to the spare bedroom in our apartment.
And then… I managed to figure out how to get within reach of it to take it down. And, of course, it's wired in. But does have a battery for backup, as they usually/always(?) do. But the plug for the wiring blocked the battery compartment. And I couldn't figure out how to get it out. YouTube to the rescue… amazingly I found a 24-second-long video with just the answer I needed. And… it worked!
(Most Valuable Assist goes to H for making an Instacart order--which we'd procrastinated about for a couple of days--quickly to include a 9V battery and for paying the extra couple of dollars for a within-an-hour delivery.)
I am absolutely not a handywoman. But to have done so much of this quickly and independently… there was a sense of accomplishment (after I recovered from being startled twice a minute by the low-battery chirp). Makes me feel a bit less useless than usual (mostly joking)
I am still not sure whether I've been dealing with one issue or two. A couple of days of decongestant helped one of the issue, but was not the entire story. I also had some pretty intense sensitivity to cold in one area of my mouth. I am being slightly optimistic in using the past tense for that sensitivity, but it has gotten a lot better. Yesterday, it only bothered me briefly (and when I took a bite of hot or room-temperature food, it eased the pain quickly). Today was the first day in something like a week that I didn't even consider Advil before breakfast.
I'm still being cautious: using a straw for drinking so I can try to avoid the sensitive area more easily. When I ate my bagels for breakfast, I tore them into smaller pieces with my hands, so I wouldn't have to be as forceful with my biting. But… even getting to point where I know what makes it hurt has been a longer-than-usual process with this one, so… it's good to be able to be in a little bit of control now.
Yesterday had one of those major minor successes in life. H had signed up for a virtual art museum tour via Zoom. So we settled in at the appointed time yesterday morning, and, as the speaker began, we started hearing a chirping smoke detector every little while. It was certainly irritating. As time went on, and he didn't apologize for the noise, I started noticing that the sound was reflecting in the apartment in ways I wouldn't have expected if it was coming from the Zoom.
So the first step, figure out for sure whether or not it was coming from the Zoom presentation. I got my phone's stopwatch app open, and measured: it was chirping every 31-32 seconds. So I prepared the remote control, and muted it for a few seconds around the next chirp. And we didn't hear it. Aha! It's not on the Zoom, so that means it's coming from our building.
Second step was confirming where the sound was coming from (either where within our apartment or whether it was from a neighboring unit). Very quickly narrowed it to the spare bedroom in our apartment.
And then… I managed to figure out how to get within reach of it to take it down. And, of course, it's wired in. But does have a battery for backup, as they usually/always(?) do. But the plug for the wiring blocked the battery compartment. And I couldn't figure out how to get it out. YouTube to the rescue… amazingly I found a 24-second-long video with just the answer I needed. And… it worked!
(Most Valuable Assist goes to H for making an Instacart order--which we'd procrastinated about for a couple of days--quickly to include a 9V battery and for paying the extra couple of dollars for a within-an-hour delivery.)
I am absolutely not a handywoman. But to have done so much of this quickly and independently… there was a sense of accomplishment (after I recovered from being startled twice a minute by the low-battery chirp). Makes me feel a bit less useless than usual (mostly joking)
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Date: 1/3/22 06:14 pm (UTC)