Back from my appointment which went well and also with 15 fewer inches of hair.

As I told Dr. A, since I’m never going to have her gorgeous straight healthy hair, I’m going to get my fried curls cut off. She definitely has beautiful straight, black shiny hair with just a few gray strands being almost a decade younger. She wore it down this time.

I remembered to turn the sound off my phone which I took because I had notes to go over with her on Google Docs, but it vibed a few times while I was in with her which figures, LOL. I didn’t think of disabling that. But that’s not nearly as distracting and noticeable as ringing and other sounds.

Her medical assistant clocked my blood pressure at 134/88. Not that bad.

So I told the doctor I have good days and bad days. The best thing she told me when I asked if it was still possible that my hormones haven’t yet fully settled in because I haven’t gone a full year yet without a period was that yes, they could still be out of whack. This gives me a little hope that my anxiety will fade once I’m postmenopausal but I won’t know until I get there. I can only say that it would be a huge disappointment to get there and find I still have scattered days of anxiety. She did say anybody can get anxiety any time but I would still hate to think that something in my brain broke 5 years ago and I’m stuck with it for life. But it is a possibility I might have to face. I sure hope not but it would be just my luck, you know? It’s the good things that come to an end much more often than the bad.

I gave her a printout of the spreadsheets containing my blood pressure numbers for the last few months. She liked how organized I am and I told her that if she needs anyone to organize online notes and it doesn’t have to be done at a set time, let me know, haha.

I told her about the head pressure I feel upon standing up and she knew exactly what I was talking about and said it isn’t dangerous. Just keep hydrated and watch the sodium and cholesterol.

Well, I really hope it backs off soon as it’s super annoying.

I’m hoping unsettled hormones are why I still feel fatigued, dizzy, lightheaded, and sometimes like I’m about to sway off balance.

She checked my good ear and it looked fine.

She also said it was fine to take the 1,000 IU of vitamin D I’ve been taking and she called in refills on my levothyroxine and inhaler. Took my poison today too (I’m always going to call it that as I told her, LOL), and no anxiety. Less time alone, getting out, and breaking up my usual routine definitely helps.

What was weird was that the computer was showing a lab order for Dr. O in October. I think she was looking at last October, though. As I told her, though, I’m done with Dr. O. Meanwhile, I’ll go to the lab in September and then see her that month as well. It will also be on a Friday at 8:30 so maybe I’ll do what I did this time and jump over to the salon afterward to get my hair cut since I’ll have 3” of regrowth by then. It will be due for at least a trim then, anyway.

Decided to go today figuring there would be fewer people than on the weekend. There was only one stylist there and no other customers so she was able to tend to me right away and give me a layered bob. She evened out my bangs as well. This is going to be so much easier for me! I personally think it makes me look a little older but I don’t care. I love the ease of it. my dyed hair was fried, anyway. Between being older and dyeing it I’m never going to have the kind of hair I had 20 years ago. Plus, one does tend to get sick of the care that goes into having long hair after so many years.

On the way back, I definitely didn’t follow doctor’s orders and had plenty of sodium and cholesterol when we stopped at McDonald’s for breakfast platters. Well, I got a platter and he got a breakfast sandwich. We so seldom eat out so we deserved it. :)

Right now he is deep in the heart of Sacramento looking at a new used electric Nissan Leaf. Hopefully, we will soon be saving on gas just like we’re on our way to saving in rodent bedding.

I don’t think the fleece liners make caring for the animals easier. If anything, it’s actually more work because it has to be done every two to three days otherwise it gets stinky.

I was looking at cages especially made for guinea pigs and saw a really awesome one we may eventually get. That way the rats can enjoy both levels of this cage since they love to climb and their bodies are made to do so.

The cage I looked at seems so awesome that I will almost certainly keep it forever if I get it since I don’t want to take this big heavy mansion with us when we move. So just maybe I’ll always have rats whether we eventually get a dog or not. Don’t know for sure if we’ll get it since we’re in plenty of debt still with paying things off, medical expenses, and having to get a new car.

In fact, he just Skyped to tell me he’s getting the car! Details coming later. :)