free!

[miriam_e]

I've finished my course of medical treatment! Yay!

For 2 years I've dealt with being constantly tired and out of breath, having most of my hair fall out, losing dangerous amounts of body weight (I'm naturally skinny), and trying to think with a fuzzed-out brain. Now my mind is already starting to speed up again and I don't need to sleep as much. The doctor tells me it will take about a month to really come good again, my hair will probably grow back (gulp), and I should start looking less like a walking stick-insect soon. :)

Over the coming weeks expect more posts from me. Yay!

Comments

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Hey! Christ man, I'm glad you're okay.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I will be now. :)

I'll be pouring a much of this rising energy into a project I've tried to do and been unable to complete (due to technology problems) several times before. This time I think I've made the right technology choices and I expect to get it done. It is to produce a short work of 3D fiction, where you wander around inside a story.

Incidentally, I was shown this recently. Thought you'd get a kick out of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dax_jrzkalE

[blackgrrr.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Hmmmm. Congratulations seems like the wrong saluation, and you seem to have covered the 'Get Well Soon' part.

I'm all out of pre-packaged Hallmark ideas, so: yay!

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

heheh :) Thanks.

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

Yaaaay! This really excites me! I miss your posts, you're a very cool lady! And it'll cheer me up with my terrible exams of doom, too. :D

I'm so glad you'll be up on the mend! Yaaay!

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

And I expect my posts will be more upbeat too, now.
The Exams Of Doom! I always hated them.

Now I am better able to I restarted "Sex Without a Story..." and am enjoying it immensely. I didn't make it through it last time -- my fault, not the story's.

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

The exams are going to kill me dead. But I always revive at the end. Although I've never had a proper exam, and now I have 8. So this should be interesting. I'ma gonna dieeee! But I'll be alright. =).

Oh, goodness, the novel I wrote when I was 15! Hides under a pillow. Laughs. I haven't looked at that in AGES. I finished two in November and now I don't have any novels I'm working on. It's a travesty! But I have a lot of ideas based on my courses. Science always inspires me to write, even if it isn't science fiction I am inspired to write.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Ouch! 8!!!

Heheh :) It is a fun story.

Where are the ones from November? I'd love to read them. Two! -- in one month! Energy has a new definition; it is "cranky crocus".

Yes. I was reading New Scientist the other day and they were reporting on a theory that explains how rains get transported hundreds or thousands of kilometers in from the coast in some places, and why it doesn't in others. It seems to indicate the moisture-laden currents may be powered by forests. Chop or burn coastal forest and rains hundreds of of kilometers away dry up. It also raises the opportunity of repairing the many man-made deserts: plant forests on the coasts and as the new rains reach them propagate the forest path further inland to set up a conveyer-belt for rain clouds. It sparked off a whole heap of ideas that will be appearing in one of my crappy stories soon.

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

I haven't put the November ones anywhere yet, teehee. I just did NaNo WriMo like normal, only I didn't feel like starting a new novel when I had two that were unfinished, so I split up the 50k and finished two novels. Two birds with one stone, as the saying goes. One is a crappy science fiction story with random lesbians. The other is a high school/young adult book on the concept of normality.

I'd be happy to email them for when you want them. =]

Oh, now now! I'm certainly not very energetic. A bit dogged occasionally, but surely that's only because I procrastinate so much! (Sometimes intentional, sometimes from pure panic--one's writing and one's work, can we guess which?)

The rain thing makes me think about locusts. I know rain tends to affect when they flare up, given their eggs require moisture and they need the vegetation to munch and a bit of heat too. Hmm hmm hmm. Apparent that I have been revising too much!

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

You are truly amazing. I have to resort to locking out the real world in order to even have a chance at NaNo -- and even then I don't generally make it. You do more than 100k while steeped in an active life. Wow! is all I can say.

Yes, I'd love to read them, but don't send them till after your exams finish. I don't want to distract you.

Locusts are interesting creatures -- brilliantly adapted to boom bust ecological cycles. When swarming they act like a super-organism; other times they are non-social.

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, no, not THAT amazing! I just used the regular 50k. I had two unfinished novels so with the word-count spread out both were finished. Although this time 'round I was thinking 50k doesn't seem like that much, and I know some people double it, so I was wondering if next time I should. Although I don't know what second year of university is like so we'll see.

Chuckles. I'm fine with sending before my exams finish. :D Just an email sent over! There are far more terrible forms of procrastination.

I love that about locusts, that they're just grasshoppers that have the ability to live gregariously. To change morphology within one generation! And behaviour instantly, just by some jostling of the femur, pretty much! It's amazing to me. And the actual swarm, as well--in the dense centre of it, the locusts are flying every which way, all confused and the lot. Opportunistic species.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Yay! That would be great. I shall await your emailed written awesomeness. :)

Just saw a piece the other day that some researchers have found that serotonin kicks locusts over into gregarious behavior. Can't remember what they said triggered the change in serotonin levels. Ah. That's it: touching their back legs. It was on an Australian science program called Catalyst.
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2563609.htm

[hestia.livejournal.com]

Oh shit. I feel awful that I didn't know you were sick! At the same time I'm very glad you're on the mend now.

{{{{{{HUGS!}}}}}

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Heheh :) Thanks.

I didn't tend to post much about it because, well, other people have their own problems. :)

I almost didn't post the announcement above, but did so partly to let everyone know why I've been ignoring the world, and partly so I have a note recording the event for my crappy memory. :)

[satyapriya.livejournal.com]

Sweetheart, I didn't even know you were sick, but I'm super-glad you're now getting better. No matter the state of your hair and skinniness quotient, you will always be beautiful to me.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)
Beautiful, I ain't... even less so now. But at least I'll begin to look human again. :)

I notice from your LJ you've been a bit down. Hope it's not for long and that you bounce back again soon like you always seem to. Indestructible H.

Glad to hear you are wanting to write again. Always loved your stories.

[annie-lyne.livejournal.com]

What happened to you? good to know you're OK.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)
I was getting what was hopefully a cure for a viral infection (we'll find out for sure when I'm tested in a month). Because viruses are so damn hard to attack the treatment tends to be kinda toxic. On top of that, I'm quite skinny and don't like to eat, and unfortunately this treatment gets more toxic the less body mass you have.

keep getting better

[revbobbob.livejournal.com]

I've been so worried about you. I'm glad to hear you're on the mend. keep doing it. The world isn't exactly crowded with good people and good friends.

Re: keep getting better

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

heheh :) Thanks Bob.
Hope you are well and happy.

In a way the treatment had an unexpectedly calming influence on my mind. Now I've stopped, my mind is racing in fruitless circles faster than ever before. Hope it doesn't take too long to come back down to normal. Doctor thinks maybe a month. In the meantime I jiggle and dance to music once again. Yay!

Re: keep getting better

[revbobbob.livejournal.com]

Jiggling and dancing can't be bad.

I'm going some cyclical mood things with a period of 3-4 days as they take me down off of one of my drugs.

Everything affects the brain. They should just say that on the bottle. Or when they give you a drug let you put your brain in a jar till they're done.

Apart from that I'm disgustingly healthy: mowing the lawn, making web pages.

Keep on dancing (dancing and a-prancing).

love,

Re: keep getting better

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Everything affects the brain.

Yes. Even milk!

The medication I was on made sleep difficult (paradoxically I was constantly tired). They offered me tranquillisers, but I refused them, being able to use my knowledge of the marvellous relaxing, sleep-inducing powers of warm milk to help.

Pop a glass of milk in the microwave oven for 2 minutes, drink it, and about 20 minutes later sleep comes much more easily.

The dancing and jiggling is great. I so missed those parts of life.

Hope you get through your experiences without too much difficulty. Glad you do seem to be. Keep on being disgustingly healthy. The world needs people like you.