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jenettWelcome to this week's salon post!
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Topic of the week
A conversation with the assistant here at work made me think self-care would be a great topic.
(I had allergy testing yesterday, and am going to be doing allergy shots, but I mentioned I was going to have another session in the float tank tomorrow, which is where this comes from. Which are two very different kinds of self care in some ways.)
What counts as self care for you? What makes it work well for you? What kinds of things do you do? How do you pick which one, when there are reasonable options?
What I've been up to:
Presenting at a conference! (More details in a locked post on my journal, I am amiable about adding people, but don't want to discuss the details in a public post since they're quickly identifying). Getting allergy testing! Doing a modicum of other household stuff, and more writing than I expected given the rest of this week.
I'm looking forward to a three day weekend. Massachusetts (and Maine, which used to be part of Massachusetts) have the third Monday in April as a holiday for Patriots Day, which is for the battles of Lexington and Concord at the start of the American Revolution, and in the Boston area, especially so because it's Marathon Day. I plan to go out and do things tomorrow.
It does also mean sometimes one goes to the grocery store and spots someone in re-enactment gear.
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Topic of the week
A conversation with the assistant here at work made me think self-care would be a great topic.
(I had allergy testing yesterday, and am going to be doing allergy shots, but I mentioned I was going to have another session in the float tank tomorrow, which is where this comes from. Which are two very different kinds of self care in some ways.)
What counts as self care for you? What makes it work well for you? What kinds of things do you do? How do you pick which one, when there are reasonable options?
What I've been up to:
Presenting at a conference! (More details in a locked post on my journal, I am amiable about adding people, but don't want to discuss the details in a public post since they're quickly identifying). Getting allergy testing! Doing a modicum of other household stuff, and more writing than I expected given the rest of this week.
I'm looking forward to a three day weekend. Massachusetts (and Maine, which used to be part of Massachusetts) have the third Monday in April as a holiday for Patriots Day, which is for the battles of Lexington and Concord at the start of the American Revolution, and in the Boston area, especially so because it's Marathon Day. I plan to go out and do things tomorrow.
It does also mean sometimes one goes to the grocery store and spots someone in re-enactment gear.
House rules:
This is a public post, feel free to encourage other people to drop by, just note the 'if posting anonymously, include a name people can call you in responses' rule.
* Consider this a conversation in my living room, only with a lot more seating. I reserve the right to redirect, screen, and otherwise moderate stuff, but would vastly prefer not to have to.
* If you don't have a DW account or want to post anonymously, please include a name we can call you in this particular post. (You can say AnonymousOne or your favourite colour or whatever. Just something to help keep conversations clear.)
* If you've got a question or concern, feel free to PM me.
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Date: 2018-04-14 12:22 pm (UTC)Regarding other self-care issues, that's what my neighbors and tutors are here for as well as just to hang out with and have a good time. My family also pitches in a lot. I submitted an online application a few days ago to what is now the Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and one of the courses I'm planning to take is Health. They used to have separate health courses for a number of sub-topics, but I think this one basically covers them all now. I just received an email yesterday from them indicating that I have been enrolled in my first course of choice, and the material is on its way.
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Date: 2018-04-14 02:27 pm (UTC)Finding a good doctor is so important. My current one (since I moved back to Massachusetts) is fabulous, and she makes it a lot easier for me to attack things. She's got a great sense of what order to do things in.
(Take the allergist: my asthma is not as well-controlled as it could be, but it's not as controlled for complicated reasons, and it's mostly been stably uncontrolled, which is a thing - lower lung function, but I don't need my rescue inhaler that often. So we have been doing other things that were more urgent, and now we're poking at the lungs again.)