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Allekha does All The Health Stuff
Sep. 17th, 2022 12:29 pmI have:
It has felt like a lot to finally be dialing up the health lightbulb now that I have workable insurance and am not completing a thesis, though hopefully, that will even out as these (thankfully fairly minor) things get dealt with and appointments get spread out. My insurance also has an option to make a phone appointment with a trans care specialist, which I might take them up on; their provider list has at least one major mistake on it in my area, so I don't much trust it.
In happier news, I have sent off plots for a paper. I spent over an hour deciding on and tweaking the colors. It was really difficult to find colorblind-friendly palette that are workable for scatter plots with more than a few categories, and I had to adjust several colors from the one I finally settled on. Colors that look great and different when set right to each other for maximum contrast are not necessarily easy to distinguish when they're a circle on a graph separated from the legend, even for me with good color vision. The main author was happy with how they looked once I was finally done with it, though.
I also recently watched a ballet recording, because I saw this clip from an Alice in Wonderland production, couldn't get it out of my head, and had to figure out how to see the full thing:
Overall it was a delight to watch, with strong characters and lovely costumes, although the ending scene fell flat to me (and also had the worst outfits). But that's only five minutes out of it. Her Alice is so spunky, and the Mad Hatter and the Red Queen stood out for their Extraness even among the rest of the cast. Adding tap dance was a memorable choice - the dancer said in one of the BTS clips was very difficult because in a lot of ways tap technique is the opposite of ballet technique.
- gotten my FSA thingy working - now to spend all of what I chipped in before the year ends. (If I don't have enough co-pays to run it out, it looks like I can just buy a ton of contacts stuff.)
- paid for my blood tests from two weeks ago, which cost me ten times what it did to get a chipped tooth repaired in Japan when I was studying abroad there. Apparently my insurance barely covered the main one and doesn't cover the rest. I... might ask about getting an estimate next time, because that was a nasty surprise to have pop up two weeks afterward.
- been through two PT appointments to work on my elbow so I can use a computer and cut food without pain again. The first time hurt pretty badly, but the second not so much. I apparently have some inflexibility in one direction on that shoulder, which surprised me, since in most ways my shoulders seem to be fairly flexible compared to others (e.g. I can scratch anywhere on my back no issue), but guess not that particular rotation direction. Also, it turns out avoiding using your hand for a year makes it weak, who knew. Not that my grip strength was ever good.
- attempted to schedule Z and myself for flu/Covid shots, but Pharmacy A is showing no appointments ever and Pharmacy B doesn't allow you to book two vaccinations at once online, so I will try calling them. (Edit: they do let you add a second vaccination! You just have to go through the entire form first. Great design there.)
It has felt like a lot to finally be dialing up the health lightbulb now that I have workable insurance and am not completing a thesis, though hopefully, that will even out as these (thankfully fairly minor) things get dealt with and appointments get spread out. My insurance also has an option to make a phone appointment with a trans care specialist, which I might take them up on; their provider list has at least one major mistake on it in my area, so I don't much trust it.
In happier news, I have sent off plots for a paper. I spent over an hour deciding on and tweaking the colors. It was really difficult to find colorblind-friendly palette that are workable for scatter plots with more than a few categories, and I had to adjust several colors from the one I finally settled on. Colors that look great and different when set right to each other for maximum contrast are not necessarily easy to distinguish when they're a circle on a graph separated from the legend, even for me with good color vision. The main author was happy with how they looked once I was finally done with it, though.
I also recently watched a ballet recording, because I saw this clip from an Alice in Wonderland production, couldn't get it out of my head, and had to figure out how to see the full thing:
Overall it was a delight to watch, with strong characters and lovely costumes, although the ending scene fell flat to me (and also had the worst outfits). But that's only five minutes out of it. Her Alice is so spunky, and the Mad Hatter and the Red Queen stood out for their Extraness even among the rest of the cast. Adding tap dance was a memorable choice - the dancer said in one of the BTS clips was very difficult because in a lot of ways tap technique is the opposite of ballet technique.
