Ah, March is back, the month in which Gary has his birthday, and as it is his birthday month he gets everything he wants with no argument.
I’m already doing everything except feed the raccoons and hit the Start button on the dishwasher. He has started a new thing, where he asks me to get the throw and put it on him. The throw is in arm’s reach. He would have to un-recline the recliner to reach it himself.
This is going to be an extra strain this birthday month, because he’s experiencing covid fatigue, chronic migraine fatigue, and now a doctor looked at his weight and suggested he might want a sleep study for his sleep apnea fatigue, and my god you’ve never seen anyone so insulted. I hope he gets over that. I tried to convince him that maybe if he has three things making him fatigued and one can be fixed, he should FIX IT. (I was also mad enough to throw something so I tore off my shirt and threw it at him. Can’t really be taken seriously topless. Didn’t think that out.)
I know I should be glad he’s still here, and I am. It’s just a whole month of slavery is tiresome.
5 responses to “Every Year With this Birthday Month Nonsense!”
You’re likely familiar with the spoon chronic-illness analogy, but I recently heard about the fork analogy – that we can tolerate a certain number of small forks being stuck in us, but at a certain point we are just DONE, and in some cases, if we can remove the parts of the stacks of problems that we *can* remove, then we can cope better with the rest.
In Gary’s case: GET THE STUDY.
In your case: Good luck. (or can you figure out something to do for yourself that makes March a treat month instead of a torture month? Or can you spend a bunch more time in the basement painting with loud music going so that you can’t hear calls for Slave Services?)
(I do feel slightly sorry for Gary, because there *is* that level of tired where any movement seems impossible and yet one is cold/itchy/thirsty/whatever. But maybe he can attach a cord to the deputized Recliner Throw Blanket so he can reel it in from a position of rest?)
Also, yes. Topless is only helpful at winning an argument if you want to fuddle the wits of your interlocutor.
KC – well of course he needs the study. I think after everyone in the world is vaccinated he might consider it.
I’m pretty sure there are take-at-home sleep apnea studies? Where they ship you off with gizmos but let you sleep at home after you’ve hooked them all up? and that would be significantly lower on the pandemic risk scale. I’m not sure where those are available vs. not, though.
KC – there are, but i read that no matter how it comes out the doctor makes you do another on in the lab.
That seems… less helpful. Unless you got a positive result and gave Gary a pool-noodle backpack to wear until it’s safer to get an in-lab one? https://www.epbot.com/2019/08/our-5-diy-sleep-apnea-solution-to-keep.html
But at that point, it might just make sense to tape a pulse oximeter to Gary, record the data off it for a night, and see if his saturation drops at any point.