Post-hospital ramblings
I decided to start a new proper personal blog during a recent stay in the hospital, context here and here . This post covers some more details of past events during and shortly after that stay, before my memories have a chance to fade further than they already have. Within the first few days, I was identified as having "anxiety", which is not something that had really occurred to me before, except maybe in connection to specific short-term situations. I soon worked out that they meant my intermittent compulsion to fidget with my hands or feet in a certain way, for no conscious reason beyond an instinctive "I know it's going to bug me if I don't". Normally, it probably just happens without drawing notice, but when your entire day is reduced to laying on a gurney and getting a couple blood samples drawn, then such things can rise to the level of conscious concern. Once we understood each other on this front, then it was fine, as I had enough room to let those...