Remember how yesterday I said that I was sick, but it wasn’t Crohn’s, it was because I ate an entire box of cookies? That was wrong, it was Crohn’s albeit perhaps triggered by overeating cookies. I did not eat anything yesterday, I hardly moved. I slept about half the day. That’s what happens when my intestines get obstructed. The way the disease presents itself changes with time. This was not a total obstruction like I used to get. I could always feel my activities in my bowels. The problem was the food wasn’t moving fast enough. The symptoms are loss of energy, discomfort, and sleepiness. When the bowels are completely obstructed it’s more than discomfort, it’s pain. I have to work at not getting dehydrated as drinking is difficult. The trick is to drink small amounts as often as possible, perhaps just a swallow at a time. If this happens to you don’t force yourself to eat. There is no place for the food to go and eventually it exits your body from the wrong end. That happened to me at 3AM. It hurts, and my throat burned, but I felt much better afterward. Because I hadn’t eaten anything all that came out was a small amount of water.
This morning I was feeling better and ate my usual post-illness breakfast, a peanut butter omelet. That gives me loads of protein, calories, and fat, remarkably high nutritional density. It is also delicious. I debated taking my donut walk. I decided in the late afternoon that I should. Walking to my bedroom to change convinced me otherwise. My tummy was still not right. I managed to take a shower and was happy about that. I still have not eaten dinner and I’m not sure that I will. Maybe I’ll have a small snack. I was planning on mac and cheese but that feels like too much work and too much work now. Perhaps I’ll have an orange or a bowl of cereal or both.
Now that I’m feeling better I remember something I forgot to write yesterday, the best thing that happened when I went shopping on Monday. As I was moving my groceries from my cart to my wheeled grocery bag, I heard some beautiful music, singing in Spanish. I looked around to see where it was coming from and to my surprise I saw it was the security guard. She is a wonderful singer. She told me that she’s never sang outside of church and doesn’t sing there anymore. I encouraged her to sing somewhere, an open mic perhaps. She’s a better singer than the average professional; not just a beautiful voice but she knows what to do with it. If I were a record producer I’d sign her on the spot. I can see the headlines; middle-aged store security worker becomes famed diva. If you find someone like that, let them know. Perhaps it will never be a career, perhaps they will never make any money from their art, but they deserve to know that they are special, and that somebody that’s not their mother recognizes it.
As I didn’t have enough energy to do anything else I watched a movie. I wasn’t sure if I could stay awake for a full movie and thought of watching something light that I didn’t mind missing half. That’s now how I went, I watched Mank. I give it two thumbs up. It’s nominated for Best Picture and it might deserve to win. I love Citizen Kane, and the film is about Herman J. Mankiewicz writing the classic. Many people think that Welles wrote it, but he didn’t, though he gets co-writing credit. One big thing I learned was that the actress, Marion Davies was not treated fairly. She was Hearst’s mistress, and everyone assumed that the character of Susan Alexander, Kane’s second wife was based on her. In the film she’s an untalented singer that Kane tried to make an opera star using his wealth and power. Marion was a talented actress, a top star of the silent era, who succeeded on her own talent and intelligence. Watch the film, it’s on Netflix. It’s great movie making.
For the second time there was a problem with the broadcast of Gord’s Gold. A few weeks ago, it started an hour early, yesterday it started eight minutes late. The problem both times was technical glitches. I blame everything on COVID-19. There was also an issue with the reposting on Mixcloud. I had it scheduled for noon, but I think it went live at midnight. That could have been my mistake, hitting AM instead of PM. That’s because noon and midnight are not AM or PM but midnight and noon, and if that were how it was listed this kind of thing wouldn’t happen.
I applied for a job as a factchecker and copy editor for FiveThirtyEight. I should be perfectly suited for that, let’s see if they agree. You know how much I love them and how much I love checking facts. This cartoon is me.
I’ll make it easy for you to listen to Gord’s Gold, I’ll embed it right here.
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