A Smattering of Things

It's been such a strange week, and this is just a post to throw out a few random, unrelated things that I've experienced/found out/ gone through in the past seven days.

Here goes:

As it stands, so far I'm taking my palpitation med without any problems.  I'm so pleased about that.  Hopefully this is the correct dosage and all, but if I have palpitations while I'm taking it, I'll just try to remember that we're still tweaking everything, and I'll try to not freak out, thinking my heart's going to fall out of my ribcage, or something like that.

I found out that my aunt also has palpitations, and that she's dealt with them --without meds-- for many, many, many years.  I didn't even know.  She's one of those "steel magnolia" type women, so I figure when she feels palpitations coming on, she probably just tells them to stop immediately, and they do.

My cats are sick.  Both of them.  At first, I thought maybe Tattie had eaten something he shouldn't have, but I can't see where that would have them BOTH getting sick.  It's almost like they're depressed, but they're not so disinterested in EVERYTHING.  I don't know, it's about to worry me to the brink.  The last time I had any interaction with an extremely sick cat, I was caring for my Dhonn in the final days of his illness from cancer.  So when I see a sick cat, unfortunately my mind goes straight to the worst case scenario.  One of my inlaw's cats died a few months ago, they'd not known what was wrong with him, either; he'd had some seemingly neurological problems, though, but still, no one knew what had happened, and finally the best decision had to be made for him.  I know that still haunts my inlaws, even though they did the right thing, and it sticks in the back of my mind as something supremely scary.

I have to take a "life in the UK" test in the beginning of December.  In February I'll have to renew my visa, stepping it up to "indefinite leave to remain" status, which will allow me to be out of the UK a little longer than I can presently.  The test will be nothing hard, and I know I'll be fine with it, but I'm one of those who feels the need to study for a test even when she knows the answers, so I've been reading my preparation book.

Meh.  That's about it.  If I feel like adding some stuff later, maybe I will.

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