Mondays make me yawn.

[same_sky]

I never got around to a proper post this weekend, so I thought I should do that now. (Yep. Bored at work again.) I really haven't been feeling all that well lately. I think I'm teething. (*giggle*) I am beginning to have wisdom teeth trouble again. It happens about once a year for the last few years.. it'll ache for a few days and then stop. I have been to the dentist in the last year or so, but he didn't seem to be worried about them. My mother is bothered by it. She claims two of my teeth are moving closer together and will overlap. It really doesn't bother me all that much, but I guess I didn't pay for the orthodontist.. :)

In general, I'm feeling kind of odd. This is the third time in the last few months that I've gotten half-sick. I start getting achey, my head starts feeling heavy and my throat achey and I get soo tired.. but then nothing really comes of it. It's not that I want to be sick, but I really would like to catch whatever it is and get it done with. I even had a fever last night, and I took a nap yesterday afternoon. My mom always knew when I was sick because I would fall asleep during the day--I never nap voluntarily. (I do a little bit more lately, but it's all totte's fault. He just loves making me fall asleep.) Does exposure to mold make you sick, and if so, how? I know stewlis mentioned having a reaction to mold a few weeks ago, and I'd been wondering about just that thing, since I'm a little snifflier than I usually am, plus these three weird sicknesses. There's often moldy fruit that I need to work with and throw away, and last week there was a particularly bad episode--the entire bottom of a box of peaches was covered in extreme mold--couldn't even see the fruit for the long strands of fur. Just a theory. Not much to be done about it anyway.. for now, at least.

Speaking of fevers.. you know what annoys the crap out of me? I have a low body temperature. When I'm perfectly healthy, it will almost always be around 97.1 or so. This means that when my temperature is 99.2 (as it was last night), this is two degrees higher than it's supposed to be. I've yet to meet a doctor who believes me, though. I don't think my reasoning is all that far out of bounds, though. 98.6 is known as the average body temperature, so it must be an average of something, wouldn't you think? Or does it make sense that every single person in the world is sitting around with a (healthy) temperature of 98.6 all the time, since most people are just so similar in their general physical health in other ways? (Sarcasm intended.)

I digress. No one likes to hear the answer to "How are you?" so I might as well stop rambling about my assorted ailments. Oh! That reminds me. Not that this is about ailments, exactly.

Last week, M got a bit of a job switch. His friend at work (J2) quit his job due to finding a new one. J2 has/had an actual stable job in the office, at no real risk of being fired. Now M has that job, hence it seems that M will no longer be in immediate danger of being fired. (His boss did mention specifically that this job has better security than the one he had before.) You might remember that we've been saying that we weren't looking to have kids until we had a stable economy. The aunts and my mom kept saying that you could never save up "enough" to have a kid.. the idea being that we might as well go ahead and get started since we'll never have what we want to feel ready. I think this reasoning is flawed on several different levels even though I do agree with the basic sentiment. I'm sure you never DO have enough, but I don't think there's anything wrong with waiting until you're reasonably sure that you're not going to be unemployed and homeless or something. Not that we really thought that was going to happen to us if he lost his job--the reason we're don't spend much is because we have a fondness for saving money and not because we can't afford it--but still.

Anyway. I mentioned this job switcharoo to my mom and aunt on Friday morning. It didn't take them an hour to put two and two together and start nagging me about babies, because hey, M has a steady job now! Troublesome side effect of the new job. M said, and I suppose he's right, that when we DO start trying, we're not going to be able to tell anyone, because they'll go crazy with the anticipation and further nagging. And no, that doesn't mean that we ARE. I'm just saying, that's all.

Comments

[totte.livejournal.com]

I really wish you hadn't told them that. Couldn't we convince them that I'm in prison from 9-5 or something? I have a feeling the nagging is going to get really old really soon.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. But I'd rather them not think you were in prison. They'd start hiding my pills and arranging for conjugal visits or something..

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

I'm with your parents - get on with it!!! Seriously guys, I'm sick and tired of waiting. Just get it over with. You've got great people next door who could baby sit too. It's ridiculous, you're not getting any younger Kisha!!

[stephbairey.livejournal.com]

I thought the people next door were evicted..? J/K

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, that's right, but I'm sure some other 'lovely' people will move in to amuse them :)

[stephbairey.livejournal.com]

Playpens and baby monitors.. who needs a sitter? :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Well, actually, we DO have neighbors to use for babysitters.. My parents live within walking distance (walking distance even for an American, that is, so pretty daggone close.) I think it would be better probably to walk a few more feet to deposit kidlet with them than to run it over to any neighbor we have. ;)

Speaking of which.. easy for you to start with the babynagging! You'll never be called in for babysitting duty!

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

Oh but I'd love to! I'd teach Magisha and Kishus swear words and naughty tricks to play on mum and dad like putting glad wrap across the toilet under the seat and swapping the sugar with the salt and buy them great presents like a drum kit!!

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Remind me to tell the future father of your children not to let you pick out names for your kids. I can only imagine the therapy bills you'd be saddling yourself with. Magisha? Wtf? *giggle*

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

I thought it had a nice ring to it ;) I once worked with a couple called Norm and Faye and they called their daughter ... wait for it .... Noraye ... blerch!!!

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Yuck. Sometimes I really think that the names people give their kids should be considered child abuse. At the very least, it's certainly a clear indication that they're unloved. I seem to recall someone writing about a family where there were five daughters and they were all named after the father. Raylene, Raynetta, that sort of thing. It was truly horrible, but I can't remember where I heard it and what the names were. Now that's going to bother me. But um, no Magisha isn't going to fly. Neither is Magnisha, which I rather like better, now that I think of it.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

We have plenty more neighbors even with those people moving out. The trouble is that I wouldn't trust them to watch my pet rock, much less a kid. :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

You know what you're setting yourself up for here, by declaring that I'm not getting any younger..? *whops you with a pillow*

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

Hehehe .... that's the ridiculous thing ... I can't believe YOU'RE getting nagged ... you're still a baby yourself ;)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

:P I rather think that I'm still a little way away from being too old to bear children myself, but they seem to think I should just get it over with while I'm still able to run around after them.

Actually (I'm sure this is more of a rant than you were expecting) I think it's about the decade my family is living in, and combine that with the locale. Have no idea about the statistics with regard to Australia, but Americans marry several years earlier than Europeans statistically, and same goes for having kids. I'm not saying that's a good thing at all.. waay too many people I've seen get married waaaaaay too young. It's earlier still, on average, in this part of the country. The thing is, my mom was done having babies by the time she was my age, so she thinks I should be past ready. My whole family is a little farther back on the whole modern society thing than I could wish. I actually think they think I'm uppity sometimes. *laugh*

[totte.livejournal.com]

You're not uppity! You're a snobby bitch! It's different!

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Oh. Alrighty then! :)

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

Of course you're uppity! :) You're a web designer for goodness sakes :) Yeah, I understand that mentality. My mum is a career mum and whilst she married early (the first time ;) ) she has changed in her views understandably. In Australia it has changed a lot, although I'm sure we were a bit later marry-iers than in some parts of the US anyway. It's norm now not to marry until about 30 and have children then too. I just hope I have enough energy to have kids later than that....

[stephbairey.livejournal.com]

Cool, I finally met the person who has the low body temp. I'm the person who, with you, makes 98.6 the average. :) I've always had a higher natural temp, of about 99.1. Great for getting out of school, but bad for trying to give blood or something. Everyone assumes you have a mild-grade fever. :) I'd never considered having the opposite problem!

Contemplation..

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I wonder if this means that if you put the two of us together, we'd actually be normal?

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

That is so weird about the low body temp thing. I compusivly check my body temperature since we have a digital one and it consistently says 37.6°C which is. . . .Oh my. This ruins my whole point. It is 98°F. But Mike always says I have an abnormally low temperature since the normal temp here is 37.5°C (99.5°F). How odd. Now I know that Swedes are just hot. No wonder I can never run a fever here. Huh. I guess my little converstion program finally came in handy. If my converstion program is right, which I guess it is.

Aren't you glad your post just created such a revelation in my brain?

And I hear you about starting a family too! I am so tired of the nagging. We want to start a family, but we aren't going to try until we have health insurance in the US. And we most certainly aren't going to tell anyone when we start trying. I couldn't stand to have my mother picture us having sex, though I guess she must anyway if she is so convinced that we should have kids.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I think I might just be missing something, but I'm not sure how 37.6 is lower than 37.5. *grin* Maybe you meant 36.7? Anyway. And forgive the horrid joke here, but I always knew that MY swede was hot, at least.. *laugh*

I could wish that my family would just be happy with knowing that WE would at least be happy (if worried) if it happened now instead of later instead of being upset about it, like if we weren't ready at all. I guess they can't understand that a person could actually BE unhappy about having a baby at any time. Families are so difficult.

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

Darn. Stupid typo. Yes, I meant 36.7.

[faeriewing.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't of thought that Swedish medical professionals think everyone has a temperature of 37.5, just that there is no significant fever until the bosy temp begins to go over 37.5.

Normal body temp is 37 celcius, but the variation over a 24 hour period can be up to 1.5 degrees, with it peaking at about 6pm, and lowest at around 4 am.
Also hormone levels alter your temperature, the whole theory behind taking temperatures to chart for ovulation.

Anything under 36C or over 38C would be considered abnormal.. signs of possible thyroid problems is consistantly high or low. Or fever if consitantly higher than 38C.

The most significant thing is a change, so if it suddenly is much higher or lower it can mean something is going on in the body.
The best way to get a really clear of idea of your own temperature variations to to check a few tmes over the day, and then see what the low and high readings can be. If they never change i would suugest getting a new thermometer before anything else.. lol

I hope this helps make this a bit clearer. (Nurse training speaking here btw)

*hugs*

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

What you say makes perfect sense and is what I figured all along. After all, there must be a reason people take their temp to try to get pregnant. I've never actually talked to anyone in the medical profession. My husband has no medical training at all and is the only one who has ever told me what the "normal" body temperature should be.

I think I'm just weird. When I'm bored I sit around and take my temperature just to see if it is going up or down. I have never written anything down, but there's a definite pattern. Lower in the mornings, higher in the evenings. Who knows about hormones though--I was on Depo for two years and am still not totally straightened out in the horomone department.

It's good to know these flucuations are supposed to happen. Always good to hear from a nurse.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Great. Now I'm sitting here thinking it would be pretty neat to chart my temperatures and make a little graph in Excel... ;)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info. :) It's not that I worry about damage from a 99 degree temperature or anything, it's just the principle of the thing. :) That's what I was thinking.. that the fact that there's a change in temperature is a bigger concern than the actual temperature when compared to the "average". I'm not consistently 97.1 (sorry, don't do celsius!), but I'm usually right in that range.. it was just an example.

*hugs* :)

[ozswede.livejournal.com]

I'm already knitting the baby clothes! Get going you two. Ohh....now I understand why M had to go to bed early tonight...why he's so tired etc...is he feeling sick in the mornings, too? :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

He HAS been whining about his poochy belly lately.. *ponder* I wouldn't mind if he wants to carry the little bambino, actually. :)

Mold and Illness

[stewlis.livejournal.com]

http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20021006/frontpage/15236.shtml

Yep. Mold can make you sick. There's a list of symptoms near the bottom of that page. I realize this is some sort of newspaper article, but I've referenced the same symptoms at various other (medical-type) sites, I just didn't bother bookmarking them at the time. In my opinion, if you dealt with a whole box of moldy peaches, you could definitely be sick from having inhaled airborne spores. The good news is, remove the source, and you've fixed the problem. Hehe, kinda hard when you live/work in the problem area, eh?