It's hot & I woke up feeling awful this morning. The forecast keeps promising in just a few days this will change. I wonder if this damn heat will ever leave. I'm not doing well. I'm dehydrated, exhausted & here's old timey word for you, discombobulated. This heat undid in a few hours what a couple of good night's sleep managed to restore. Sucktember choose sweltering heat as it's form of violence this year.
That's all for now. I'm too scattered to try for more. Take care.
Cya...
I've stated in the past, I think most HIV care eventually belongs in the office of the primary care provider. I understand there are irregularities & extremes that may require a specialist, but most of it is routine. This piece supports primary care providers being the main point of HIV prevention, as with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, etc... Any provider can provide information, basic testing & PrEP, so why aren't they?
The heat is back to being a challenge. It will be here for at least this week. I'm so ready for things to cool down. Sleep wasn't that great last night. I need to shower & go handle some things. I'm already tired.
Cya...
I spent a lot of yesterday just trying to get through the day. Even after a decent sleep, I was exhausted. It cooled down in the afternoon. Still, I was barely functioning until the sun went down. I slept better last night, but it's not enough & the remainder of this week is supposed to be hot. I'm not sure how things are going to go.
I forgot to post that the plumber came & fixed the toilet. It wasn't a big deal, but I didn't know how to fix it. I'm glad it's fixed & didn't cost a lot.
Take care.
Cya...
My bad night before, made yesterday very hard on me. I was spent before I even got started. Shopping left me drenched & huffing for breath. This weather needs to move out, but the forecast has it here for up to another week. Every time the heat is supposed to move on, it just stays. I need to sleep, stop being soaked, be able to eat more, breathe easier, etc... This Summer has sucked.
I'm of the belief that HIV should be treated mostly by your primary care provider. It's been here since the 80s, surely the basics could be handled in house & only involve a specialist on occasion. The problem with that is, out of 200+ medical schools, net searches say only about 15% teach a comprehensive program detailing HIV & other common infectious diseases. That's maybe 30 in the US. The rest teach a very cursory blip about the matter. Maybe in the medical field, outside of pharmacy, took the matter more seriously, we'd be further along in this fight.
That's all for now, take care.
Cya...
Last night could've been the 1st night I had decent sleep in a while. The house could've actually cooled down some. But no, a sudden BS, pissy rain had to happen. I hadn't been asleep very long, when thunder woke me. I needed to close the main window letting air into the house. That kept the rain out, but it also trapped all the muggy air inside. Of course in the process of closing a window while half asleep I stubbed my toe on a paver the heater sits on. It skinned the tip & took forever to stop the bleeding.
Instead of a cool pleasant night. It was muggy & overly warm. My foot hurt & everything was so much wetter than it should've been. I did not sleep well.
To add to sucktember, out toilet is having an issue. We'll need to call a plumber. I don't know how to handle this problem. 2026 is sucking so hard. There's more crap weather in the way of any serious cool down. So no relief for a while.
Take care.
Cya...
The forecast is showing chances for rain & a cool down. The next week only has 1 day over 100° & maybe a day in the upper 80s. I hope this holds, I've not been doing well & last night was actually pretty hard on me. I'm tired of the heat, being wet, dehydrated & just exhausted. This weather has left me anxious, sleep deprived, allergy ridden & spending too much time in the bathroom. I need this to end.
This has been going for so long, that I'm not functioning well. If this were an rpg, I'd be taking serious negatives to my rolls on just about everything. The problem with being this worn out is that it takes some serious time to recover from. A single good day & night sleep isn't going to undo all of it. It's no wonder people die from the heat.
That's all for now, take care.
Cya...
If the forecast holds, it could start cooling down by Thursday. Next week, temps over 100° could be gone for the season. We might even see some upper 80s. I want a cool down, but not a crash. Sudden temp changes are rough on things, mainly me.
We got a blitz rain yesterday, not quite 0.5". It didn't cool anything significantly & added to the humidity. We could get more rain later in the week.
This Summer sucked. The 1st half was dark & raining. The last of it was hazy, overly bright & too blasted hot. I guess that's just what the season is now.
Take care.
Cya...
