The Insanity Continues

Seriously, guys. If these symptoms are still this bad at the end of the month, I'm gonna have to stop taking the Mounjaro.

Today the nausea is really bad. And my nose is running like a sieve! And I started feeling like I was getting a UTI so I started taking AZO. I hope I caught it early enough because I've had a UTI a couple of times in my life and it was awful. And I discovered I hate the taste of cranberry juice.

My doctor had told me that my glucose might go up (I heard it as will) when I first start taking Mounjaro and it has. I'm hoping it stabilizes at under 100 soon.

My email has gone back to taking forever to send the email with the pictures of my glucose and blood pressure. My glucose was 124 and my blood pressure was 140 over 74. I'm blaming my high blood pressure on me feeling like I'm gonna puke.

Plans for the weekend:
Laundry and (start) reading Dark Water Book Four: The Quarterlands
What got done:
All of that! Except for the clothes I don't toss in the dryer because they're still not dry

I had fully expected to read the whole book over the weekend but I was out when the link arrived in my inbox and then I had to charge my kindle. And the chapters showing Alex's past are very difficult to read so I have to take a break after reading his part of the story.

I was right that we would learn who the killer is in the first part of the book. And it is someone who was never anywhere near my list of suspects. And the reason? Totally insane and guaranteed to piss Alex off, although the killer claimed they did it to help him.

Now to see George Tyler lose everything he holds dear and suffer the consequences for his actions.

The first three books are available now, with the fourth coming out 9/9. Go here if you want to read them. I highly recommend them if you like MM romance with a huge helping of dystopia and murder mystery.

I was planning on getting back to walking this morning but I took my first dose of Mounjaro Saturday and the side effects have hit me hard. I was feeling fine for most of Saturday and Sunday but after I'd been in bed for nearly an hour, I felt like I was going to puke. So I got up and went to sit on the couch where I promptly feel back asleep. I'm still not fully awake and I've been up for roughly forty minutes.

We'll try again next week. Fingers crossed these side effects don't happen again because they SUUUUUUUCK!

I had a very interesting dream this morning.

I worked in an office building doing something with finance. Despite my desk being where anyone could walk by and see what I was doing, I read lists on a BuzzFeed type website instead of doing any actual work.

At one point I got up to go to the bathroom. The whole place had this cheap looking carpet which I found strange considering the office felt expensive and I was dressed business formal (although I was walking around barefoot?). And when I say the whole place, I'm including the bathroom.

So when you walk into the women's room there was the usual sink/mirror area and then on the other side of a divider wall were four stalls. There were signs on the doors because they had full doors. Two were toilets and the other two were either showers or changing rooms. I didn't pay that much attention because I was headed for a larger area at the back. The 'handicapped' stall. Although it was more like an office with a toilet in it.

The door had the standard push button lock on the handle but then also had this bar thing you could wrap around the handle to prevent the door from being opened by someone who had a key.

Then there was a sink area as soon as you walk in and next to that was the toilet (in a little alcove for some privacy although not much since there was no door). Across from that was a curtain that hid a glass door that lead to a balcony area. A bit further down and the area opened up to an office area complete with desk and bookshelves. There was a metal fire door that lead to a staircase (there was no handle on the other side of the door so if you went out, you could not go back in unless you went down to the ground floor and back up to whichever floor this room was on). And there were more curtains hiding a wall of windows that overlooked the balcony and some frosted windows on the opposite wall that allowed in some natural light.

Plans for my vacation:
Clean the apartment, work on my story (finish it maybe?), spend time with my mother, make my bed every day, walk every day
What got done:
None of that. Sort of.

I woke up Monday not feeling well so I chose to not walk or clean. Tuesday I was feeling better but still did not walk. I cleaned the toilet, the little cabinet next to the toilet, the counter/sink, and the mirror. And then my body gave out. Wednesday and Thursday I wasn't feeling well again and Friday I had an appointment with my doctor.

I did manage to get several paragraphs written on my story but I am fighting with my muse about every little thing. Only reason I can think of is I know how the series ends because I've already written that story and one of the main characters ends up being not so nice to the other main character. But this story is set about a year before that so I'm trying to convince my muse that at this point, he's still a good guy. *sigh*

I spent Friday with my mother after my appointment. I got my car washed and we had lunch. I really need to move closer so I can spend more time at her house. I was only there for about three hours because I didn't want to get home too late.

I lost 9lbs from when I was at my doctor in March or April. And I found out that my scale shows I weigh about 2lbs more than the one at her office.

She has been trying to put me on Trulicity for a couple of years but my insurance hasn't allowed it. But I got to thinking that since I have a coupon for Eliquis, maybe there's one for Trulicity, too. There is! It can bring it down as low as $25. So, I told her about that and she stated that now she wants me on Mounjaro because the weight loss aspect of it is greater that Trulicity and Ozempic. She looked it up right then and found the same coupon as for Trulicity.

When I was at Walgreens later, I asked about it (they are currently out of stock of the Mounjaro and one of my other meds) and my insurance is paying all but $25!

My doctor always writes my scripts for three months. I have told her at least once that my insurance only covers one month at a time and writing the script for more than that causes it to get denied which causes delays in getting them filled.

I say all that because she wrote the script for two months (2.5mg and then 5mg). She said that the dose can go as high as 15mg but most people stay at 7.5mg. She wants to see me back in September (that's why she wrote the script for two months instead of three).

At some point on Saturday, I received notice that there was an issue with my prescription. I opened the alert and found that I will be charged $25 for the 2.5mg pens but $1297.24 for the 5mg pens. I had a mini freak out, then called Walgreens. As I suspected, once I calmed down, the price for the 5mg was because my insurance only pays for one month at a time. The 5mg pens have been canceled for now and I can request them next month. The pharmacist did say that the 5mg could cost as much as $50 or $55. I'd rather not pay that, but it is better than hundreds or thousands of dollars.

I fully expected my doctor to ask why I hadn't been to the cardiologist but she never did. I think I have a very good reason for not going and was totally prepared to tell her. Kinda confused as to why she didn't. She did scold me a bit about not going to the eye doctor. I need to find one near me and in my network.

Monday:

Tuesday:


My glucose is high because I had a package of sugar cookie dough in the late afternoon. I originally planned to only eat one or two pieces, but before I knew it, I had eaten the whole package!

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Friday:

Today:


I had cookies around 7 last night so I chose to not take my glucose this morning. Not sure if I will take it the rest of the week because I will not be eating well (I allow myself to overindulge after an appointment) but we'll see.

So my tooth decided to change things up and woke me with the stabbing, burning pain around 11 last night. I did not feel like getting up to do anything about it so I just laid there in agony until I fell back asleep. I then managed to sleep until almost 2am.

My tooth hurt a little bit after that so I didn't really sleep very well and decided to not walk again today.

Saturday morning the weirdest thing happened. I was snoozing on the couch when I heard this scraping sound. There's a tree outside my apartment that has been dead since before I moved in and a month or so ago one of the limbs fell off and just barely scraped against my windows. I thought that had happened again so I pulled up my camera but the tree looked like it always does. That's when I decided to pull back the curtain where I discovered the blinds had fallen! I didn't take a picture of them behind the curtain (and maybe I should have).

I submitted a work order through the app and maintenance came yesterday to fix it. Since some of the slats are bent or broken, I expected to get new blinds (two slats were broken before I moved in) but he just put the old one back up! It's a good thing I have curtains because not only would I have had no privacy due to the uncovered front window for two days, but I still wouldn't have any due to the broken slats on the blinds.

The management office sent a survey (they do this all the time when you submit a work order via the app) so I said I was dissatisfied due to the old broken blinds being put back up instead of new ones.

I woke up this morning determined to walk after not walking yesterday. But I couldn't fall back to sleep and my tooth started hurting again. So I decided to not walk.

Now I'm coughing up phlegm. And it's not a deep cough, either so I'm afraid I have an upper respiratory.

I really do not want to work today.

Plans for the weekend:
Clean the kitchen, living room, and bedroom.

What got done this weekend:
Most of the kitchen and living room.

My original plan (made prior to Thursday night) was to clean the kitchen and living room Friday since I was off for the holiday and then clean my bedroom Saturday. But at dinner Thursday (Saturday was my birthday but my daughter and son-in-law had a wedding to attend so we got together Thursday for my birthday instead) my mother said she wanted to come over Saturday (now that I'm an adult and don't really care as much, she insists on spending my actual birthday with me).

So I altered my plans in that I would clean my bedroom Saturday night instead of during the day. However, I only finished wiping down the counters and stove Friday. I have been fighting a toothache for a couple of weeks now and my head was hurting a bit Friday even though my tooth wasn't.

I know how my mother feels about sitting in my house when it's not 'clean' (meaning when there is clutter and visible dust) so I called off Saturday and managed to dust everything except the two side tables and the bar. I also didn't vacuum.

I had planned to vacuum after 9 because I could turn the air down and wouldn't get as hot but I was just done. So I took a shower instead.

I did walk this morning, it actually felt good after not walking for over a week. The whole time I was getting ready I was saying that I did not want to but I knew I should, so I did. I wanted to keep going after the first commercial break but my knee gave just the tiniest bit and I decided to stop rather than risk tripping and falling.

I fell asleep on the couch for about 20 minutes last night around 8. I was not ready for bed for about an hour after that. I finished watching the episode of the show I was watching and then finished the chapter I was reading. I got in bed around 10 and at one point I when went to roll over, I looked at the clock and saw it was nearly 2 so I got up. And promptly slept through my alarm at 5.

I have less than a week to finish reading Ghost Eye and I'm only about 60% of the way through it. This one is a very painful read. If you are thinking of reading the series please be aware that this book deals with very dark themes (rape and physical abuse mostly). The author does a very good job of giving a content warning and has a list of the chapters that have the most disturbing content. Please keep your mental health in mind if you chose to read.

Plans for the weekend:
Clean the kitchen and living room, do the dishes (still a separate chore in my house (if I can only develop the habit of washing them every day)), read more of Ghost Eye, work on my story

What got done:
Laundry (I know it wasn't on the list, I'll explain below), the dishes, read some of Ghost Eye (not as much as I wanted, though)

When I started to clean on Friday, I began to feel a bit light headed so I decided I'd put it off until Saturday. Saturday, I went and got my hair cut and then went to Walmart. That afternoon, I was hurting all over so I decided to do the laundry instead. I mean, it needed to be done, so. Cleaning the kitchen and living room was traded with doing the laundry (I do the laundry the last weekend of the month).

All that's left of the laundry is the clothes I don't dry, I'm waiting for them to finish air drying before I put them away. There are also some dishes that need to be put away.

I didn't walk as long as I wanted because I have been having issues with my right knee and it started to hurt after just a few minutes. But I did it despite not wanting to. I also chose not to get dressed today because I just didn't want to, plus I couldn't decided what I wanted to wear.

Plans for the weekend:
Clean my bedroom, the kitchen, and the living room, do the dishes (the kitchen and the dishes are two separate chores in my house), read some more of Ghost Eye, and work on my fic.

What got done:
My bedroom, the dishes, and read some more of Ghost Eye.

I was planning on walking this morning but that didn't happen. I went to bed around 9pm and woke up (and could not fall back to sleep) a little before midnight. I wasn't feeling the best, so I got up. I did end up being sick and spent the rest of the night on the couch. I'm feeling a bit better this morning but I was definitely not up to walking when I woke up at 5am.

I'm kinda upset and very annoyed. While Major Crimes is streaming on Philo, it isn't the whole series. I was really looking forward to watching it. What I don't understand is why Peacock isn't streaming it. Major Crimes aired on TNT which I think was/is owned by Universal and so is Peacock.

My gmail is back to taking hours to send the email with the pictures of my glucose and blood pressure.

The live action Snow White is available on Disney+. I fast forwarded through most of the songs and I am very glad I didn't see it in the theater.