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bunrabAssorted things.
1. Monday's visit to EP (defibrillator/pacemaker doctor): the little zap I felt Saturday was actually the defibrillator treating an event, according to the defibrillator, which they "interrogate" through a "wand" that downloads everything mildly interesting that's happened in the device's memory. Never mind that (a) I haven't had an episode of fibrillation in years, before this device got implanted, and (b) from the one time I felt my previous ICD, this felt nothing like it.
2. Then Tuesday about 4:30 a.m. I got awakened by something that felt very like what I expect cardioversion (what the defibrillator does) to feel like - but Wednesday morning's visit to the EP says that the device showed absolutely NOTHING happening at that time.
3. Therefore, hmph, I am feeling slightly cranky and worried about the reliability of this device already. However, since I seem to be otherwise fine... at least, at today's visit we did remove the last little bandage strips, so I don't have super-itchy adhesive on my skin.
1. Rehearsals have gone fine. Monday night, I was still a little awkward with the tenor, at Bel Air rehearsal. Tuesday, I had figured out a way to make a pad out of a small towel, that protected my surgery area and distributed the hanging weight from the neckstrap to something wider, so that the tenor was much more comfortable at Baltimore rehearsal. And by Wednesday evening, for Montgomery Village, that system worked well enough for me to manage the bari fairly well.
2. All new music tonight at MV, lots of fun. Note to music nerds: the rare R.B. Hall march that actually has a stinger!
3. And this afternoon, before said rehearsal, I picked up my new glasses, which made reading the music much easier - I can now properly see both music and conductor, though computer screen is gonna take some getting used to with the new pair. Although the new glasses are still lined bifocals, they are much better made than the previous couple of pairs, and so there is not a really blurry area right across the center stave on a sheet of music.
4. Not exactly music, but band: as I may have mentioned, I'm pres of the MV band this season. So I get to do announcements at the break during rehearsals. This evening, I had along a little surprise, a package of 8 cheap but colorful pencil sharpeners, which I had gotten for 50 cents the bag, not 50 cents the sharpener. So, as part of my continuing campaign to make sure that everyone in the band not only has a pencil at every rehearsal, but a working, usable pencil at every rehearsal, I offered the sharpeners. And tossed them to people who raised their hands. With my left hand. And got them smack into the waiting hands of every single one except the trombone in the far corner. Which is truly extraordinary for me, since (a) although I'm ambidextrous, I don't usually bother to use my left hand for many single-handed things, since the world is mostly designed for right-handers so it's easier to do it that way. But since for another 5 weeks or so, I am not supposed to raise my right arm above shoulder level nor place it behind the plane of my body, so as not to dislodge the leads, I couldn't use my right hand. And (b) with either hand, I have never been able to throw/aim properly at stuff for beans. I always miss what I'm aiming at. I got my lowest grades in gym all through school because I cannot throw or hit a moving ball, be it softball, tennis, or anything else requiring large motor coordination and trajectories. So I'm figuring it must be the new glasses, or else I've just used up my share of luck/coincidences for the rest of the decade, to throw small objects so accurately around a large room.
Oh, and I bought me a pair of those lighted knitting needles!
ETA: lighted knitting needles!
1. Monday's visit to EP (defibrillator/pacemaker doctor): the little zap I felt Saturday was actually the defibrillator treating an event, according to the defibrillator, which they "interrogate" through a "wand" that downloads everything mildly interesting that's happened in the device's memory. Never mind that (a) I haven't had an episode of fibrillation in years, before this device got implanted, and (b) from the one time I felt my previous ICD, this felt nothing like it.
2. Then Tuesday about 4:30 a.m. I got awakened by something that felt very like what I expect cardioversion (what the defibrillator does) to feel like - but Wednesday morning's visit to the EP says that the device showed absolutely NOTHING happening at that time.
3. Therefore, hmph, I am feeling slightly cranky and worried about the reliability of this device already. However, since I seem to be otherwise fine... at least, at today's visit we did remove the last little bandage strips, so I don't have super-itchy adhesive on my skin.
1. Rehearsals have gone fine. Monday night, I was still a little awkward with the tenor, at Bel Air rehearsal. Tuesday, I had figured out a way to make a pad out of a small towel, that protected my surgery area and distributed the hanging weight from the neckstrap to something wider, so that the tenor was much more comfortable at Baltimore rehearsal. And by Wednesday evening, for Montgomery Village, that system worked well enough for me to manage the bari fairly well.
2. All new music tonight at MV, lots of fun. Note to music nerds: the rare R.B. Hall march that actually has a stinger!
3. And this afternoon, before said rehearsal, I picked up my new glasses, which made reading the music much easier - I can now properly see both music and conductor, though computer screen is gonna take some getting used to with the new pair. Although the new glasses are still lined bifocals, they are much better made than the previous couple of pairs, and so there is not a really blurry area right across the center stave on a sheet of music.
4. Not exactly music, but band: as I may have mentioned, I'm pres of the MV band this season. So I get to do announcements at the break during rehearsals. This evening, I had along a little surprise, a package of 8 cheap but colorful pencil sharpeners, which I had gotten for 50 cents the bag, not 50 cents the sharpener. So, as part of my continuing campaign to make sure that everyone in the band not only has a pencil at every rehearsal, but a working, usable pencil at every rehearsal, I offered the sharpeners. And tossed them to people who raised their hands. With my left hand. And got them smack into the waiting hands of every single one except the trombone in the far corner. Which is truly extraordinary for me, since (a) although I'm ambidextrous, I don't usually bother to use my left hand for many single-handed things, since the world is mostly designed for right-handers so it's easier to do it that way. But since for another 5 weeks or so, I am not supposed to raise my right arm above shoulder level nor place it behind the plane of my body, so as not to dislodge the leads, I couldn't use my right hand. And (b) with either hand, I have never been able to throw/aim properly at stuff for beans. I always miss what I'm aiming at. I got my lowest grades in gym all through school because I cannot throw or hit a moving ball, be it softball, tennis, or anything else requiring large motor coordination and trajectories. So I'm figuring it must be the new glasses, or else I've just used up my share of luck/coincidences for the rest of the decade, to throw small objects so accurately around a large room.
Oh, and I bought me a pair of those lighted knitting needles!
ETA: lighted knitting needles!
