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beansideAnd, it's back to work today, boo. At least it'll give me something to do for 8 hours. Then, I have a Spelljammer game I play in right after work, so that'll be fun.
Yesterday was less fun at first. We tried to have a discussion with my sister about Dad, and she is stubbornly in Pollyanna land, where this is entirely because of the medication, and if they lower it, he's going to bounce back, and everything will be great. I truly wish that would happen, but I don't think it's going to.
The more I'm reading about dementia, the more I'm thinking this has been a slow moving issue before. I think they increased Phenobarbital increased it, but I don't know that it's reversible. Pheno's associated with 187% higher risk of dementia, and he already had a pretty high genetic risk. But when I look back, he has so many symptoms of early dementia that we just kind of hand waved away.
His short term memory has been glitchy for a while, but we put that down to him being mostly deaf, and only remembering stuff that he wanted to hear. When we'd tell him what dinner I was making for him not to eat, he would never remember. Loss of appetite, check. Craving sweets, check. Personality change, well yeah. He's gotten much worse about being an asshole and picking at everyone, especially me.
So, Jess and I are trying to plan, and my sister is very much wanting to wait and see if there's a miracle, which is kind of driving me up a wall.
As a result of being frustrated and sad, at not quite 11, I decided to run a game. I put the call out for a last minute one shot, and by 4:30 pm, I had seven players, which was very cool. As Jess said, it's like I was assembling the Avengers. I have the best players. It makes me feel very good as GM to have that many people show up with less than 6 hours warning.
The module was a lot of fun, though some of the spells were badly worded, and the end dungeon was a little weirdly set up. Mostly, though, it got my mind off of things, and I spent four hours with people I like, which was good for me.
My manager is supposed to be back today after a month long leave to be in the Philippines while his father died. I'm looking forward to having him back. Unofficially running herd on these assholes is hard. I feel a little bad that he's coming back to an interpersonal shit show, but that's why he gets paid the big bucks (and I don't.). Hopefully the team is nice and takes it a little easy on him today. (Probably not.)
Tomorrow, it'll be two weeks since my interview, so hopefully, I'll hear something soon.
Okay, time to get myself together. Have a good Sunday everyone!
Yesterday was less fun at first. We tried to have a discussion with my sister about Dad, and she is stubbornly in Pollyanna land, where this is entirely because of the medication, and if they lower it, he's going to bounce back, and everything will be great. I truly wish that would happen, but I don't think it's going to.
The more I'm reading about dementia, the more I'm thinking this has been a slow moving issue before. I think they increased Phenobarbital increased it, but I don't know that it's reversible. Pheno's associated with 187% higher risk of dementia, and he already had a pretty high genetic risk. But when I look back, he has so many symptoms of early dementia that we just kind of hand waved away.
His short term memory has been glitchy for a while, but we put that down to him being mostly deaf, and only remembering stuff that he wanted to hear. When we'd tell him what dinner I was making for him not to eat, he would never remember. Loss of appetite, check. Craving sweets, check. Personality change, well yeah. He's gotten much worse about being an asshole and picking at everyone, especially me.
So, Jess and I are trying to plan, and my sister is very much wanting to wait and see if there's a miracle, which is kind of driving me up a wall.
As a result of being frustrated and sad, at not quite 11, I decided to run a game. I put the call out for a last minute one shot, and by 4:30 pm, I had seven players, which was very cool. As Jess said, it's like I was assembling the Avengers. I have the best players. It makes me feel very good as GM to have that many people show up with less than 6 hours warning.
The module was a lot of fun, though some of the spells were badly worded, and the end dungeon was a little weirdly set up. Mostly, though, it got my mind off of things, and I spent four hours with people I like, which was good for me.
My manager is supposed to be back today after a month long leave to be in the Philippines while his father died. I'm looking forward to having him back. Unofficially running herd on these assholes is hard. I feel a little bad that he's coming back to an interpersonal shit show, but that's why he gets paid the big bucks (and I don't.). Hopefully the team is nice and takes it a little easy on him today. (Probably not.)
Tomorrow, it'll be two weeks since my interview, so hopefully, I'll hear something soon.
Okay, time to get myself together. Have a good Sunday everyone!
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Date: 2023-03-19 03:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-03-19 04:49 pm (UTC)I'm glad you've got some good distractions in gaming, and that your manager is back, so you don't have to herd the cats any longer