Cohorts and Others of Ill Repute

• two more radiation treatments to go; I have a mild (and itchy) looks-like-sunburn across a roughly 20cm square running between my armpit and my midline
• the new medication I'm supposed to start after radiation is back ordered until May. need to contact the specialist on monday
• general body health alternating between 'ow' and 'fatigue'. but i'm getting some stuff done
• mental health - struggling with the cognitive load of daily treatments, but mostly chill.
• i have started the 'reading fiction' part of my project; the first book has a lot of details, but suffers from coming out in 2020 and thus is showing a lot of the pre chatgpt tropes surrounding AI
• I am knitting a tiny fifth doctor scarf as a decorative item; it is getting less and less accurate to the pattern as I go on. I only have six of the seven colours....
• reading? not much.
• walking home from the hospital? did it the once. have not had the spoons since. have been using the cane more than some.
• other exercise? bugger all.
• garden: birds have eaten all but one pomegranate. hoping that one gets ripe enough. guava are ~2cm across; I thought i had done a good job of thinning, but nope. have not thinned the feijoa even that much so argh.
• family: youngest has a job contract signed; to be starting in ?august.

uni: sent the ethics application to supervisors on ... Tuesday. Have started setting the foundations for the next sub-project, but haven't gathered together all the notes yet. This will be hunting for kids books. I am being optimistic and also grandiose about how much I'm hoping to achieve.

annual not-goals: reading (1) and music (4) are on track; the others either I've not really done anything on or they aren't currently achievable.

medical: 7/15 treatments down; I look mildly sunburned. I'm getting the expected kinds of side effects, albeit at levels that seem higher than is warranted for such a small area of body (today I am so crashed and food is a struggle, and language is a bit wonky; I told the nurse my head was full of glue). I have found some details that help with the overstimulation: I wear non-slip socks (no shoes on the bed, no bare feet to stress the staff, no taking shoes off), I keep my eyes closed and focus on breathing except when watching the 'how much to breath' lights, I take my belt off even though I don't need to so it doesn't dig in.

craft: I have been making progress on one of the two knitting projects that I'm counting as 'active' which means that some time this year I might get to the pattern that buttonsbeadslace shared with me (which needs to be done for ... September, because b'day gift. and then a second for october, and a third for December, because I think I'm funny). No other craft has had a look in. I did do weekly drawing for a bit but didn't find the spot in the routine it fits and keep forgetting.

music: I have played some of the Hanon's exercises roughly once a week. Monday group (viola) is going well; Wednesday (violin) I've made it to more than I've missed and alternating Sundays (recorder) are also good although there is less music happening there than would be my preference (P's house guest is in the final throes of writing a PhD thesis in mathematics; P does not do math; ariaflame and I have tangentially relevant knowledge, house guest take the opportunity to talk about their maths)