While I am feeling better and am significantly less jaundiced, the fatigue is still hanging on. However, I certainly can't complain since it is 1) something I did to myself and 2) I can still work during it. It does make it harder to get down to visit my parents, but my dad's knee replacement went well on Monday and I'll try to have the energy to get there tomorrow. If not, there's always next Sunday since it would be lightest on Labor Day traffic.

Speaking of lack of sleep/fatigue, for my birthday I had an Amazon gift card, so most of it went towards a white noise machine since I've been having SO much trouble falling asleep for months prior. I heard mixed reviews, so I wasn't sure about whether it would work, but I am so impressed. I have it set for waves rolling onto the beach, and the combination of insects in the summer night from my window and the wave sound puts me to sleep within half an hour. In comparison, I was usually tossing and turning for 1-3+ hours before I could finally get my mind to quiet down.

I'm hoping this new routine sticks, and I finally get caught up with where I want to be energy-wise.

I feel like everyone's health has declined post-pandemic, mostly because of the enforced inactivity we endured for two years before things started getting back to "normal." Yes, I have lost a significant amount of weight, but it took a year and some serious effort to get there (and without Ozempic or the other GLP-1s which I think are TERRIBLE for long-term weight loss). The meclizine I was on for the vertigo worked, but I've been jaundiced for a little over a week which is killing any energy I have. I'm hoping it passes soon since I stopped the meclizine last Thursday.

The other librarian in my Discord group had been having a very rough personal time for the past year or so, and we tried to support him however we could, but he's in the Midwest so from the East Coast there's only so much I could do. 

A Discorder finally called in a wellness check after we hadn't heard from him in about three weeks, and unfortunately, he failed the wellness check. They found his body in the house, dead from natural causes, but most likely because he suffered systemic organ failure after basically drinking himself to death over the past year(s). None of us is completely shocked, but we're all saddened that this is how it ended for him. We only found out yesterday.

Hopefully most of us will make it through this post-pandemic reset period, and I'm hoping my jaundice will resolve soon, but it's certainly given me new impetus to quit drinking again between the two circumstances. I don't want that to be me some day, and there's only one way to increase my odds on that.