A Decision Has Been Made

I'm not going to the hospital after all. Dr. K is aaaaaall worried about the inflammation in my blood being related to my infection/abscess, but said infection/abscess is CLEARED UP, and I looked it up and inflammation in the blood can come from basically ANY condition, illness or infection.

I have long covid. I have arthritis. Both of these can show up as inflammation in the blood. I also have like every other condition in existence, so like??

I FEEL fine, or as fine as I ever feel, at least, and I have an appointment with Dr. K in a week and a half, anyway! I feel like nothing going on with me points toward my infection/abscess becoming systemic being very unlikely, and I'll survive until my appointment and we can discuss it then.

Mom is SO SUPER PISSED that I'm not going, but seriously FUCK THE ER THE INFECTION IS GONE WHY SHOULD I GO SIT THERE FOR 10 HOURS JUST TO BE TOLD I'M FINE AND TO GO HOME?? And like, she doesn't fucking know HALF of my medical problems, even though she thinks she does, so she has no idea.

I might call Dr. K tomorrow and try to actually get HER on the phone to talk about everything, too, just in case, but THAT is a big IF because she's notoriously hard to pin down.

Gettin' Stuff Done

Today I actually got around to editing Comfort Food, which was a FREAKING pain in the ass, God I hate editing so much but like it's something that's got to happen, I guess. Now Comfort Food is ready to be posted this coming Thursday, and I need to edit Something To Be Protected for the week after that, then FINALLY get around to editing Teeth for the week after THAT. Just basically SO MUCH EDITING. /SOB

I'm like 75% of the way through writing Baby, and I've started writing Supply And Demand, but I really need to work on Endling since it's now next in line (I ended up pushing Hunting Souls down father in the list after all.) But I've decided that after I post Nightingale, I'm going to drop my Every Thursday update schedule and just update as I finish fics because honestly, I love my SPN AU and everything, but I need to work on some other things for a bit because my brain is just... starting to burn out on SPN. I'm trying to keep writing it by easing back a bit and working on other stuff as well, because I love it so much, so I mean, fingers crossed for me!

What I really need to do is get back to writing TKA, after like four-and-a-half months of hiatus for various reasons. I'm SO CLOSE TO FINISHING IT and it's just EATING AT ME because I'm THAT CLOSE to having completely written an original novel, you know? So once I'm done my editing on Something To Be Protected and Teeth, I'm going to pull TKA back up and try to get it finished up. BUT THEN MORE EDITING. /SOBSOBSOB

One thing I AM considering is printing Horror High and Storm Season so I have actual book copies of them. There would be maybe four or five books in the set: Horror High, Horror High One-Shots, Storm Season and Storm Season One-Shots (possibly two volumes of those.) I wouldn't be selling them or anything, I would just have one copy of each printed for myself, you know? Ideally in hardcover, but I'm thinking of going with Lulu for printing and they don't offer hardcover as an option, as far as I can tell.

But to do this I need a cheap/free program for creating .pdf files because all the self-publishing sites work through .pdf and so far the Internet is just screaming ACROBAT at me, and that is NOT CHEAP OR FREE. I dunno, I'm still looking into it.

Come to think of it, I should have a copy of Biology printed for myself, too... .__. Hmm.