20260713 #RedactedScience Evening Update
Skipping a day or two or more is one way I find Normal. If I have to post about this every day, it is a daily reminder that I sometimes just don’t want. You get used to the pains and other issues, but every time I put words down about what it’s like going through it, I actually have to take a step back and observe the entire process and admit that I’m facing a lot more than just these symptoms.
I worked from the office, today.
Weight is 164. My right arm is still different. The pains in it are in the bicep when used. Nothing nearly as bad as during the Fungal Associated Transient Myositis of a couple years ago. It’s just a slight pain and weakness.
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There is a difference between living through something and stopping to describe what it means that you are living through it.
That is the burden in this entry.
Pain can become background. Weakness can become something you work around. You can grab the knee to lift the leg, avoid the stairs, bring lunch so you do not have to cross the parking lot, ice whatever is hurting, and move on with the day. Adaptation makes extraordinary things feel ordinary because it has to.
Writing breaks that spell.
The moment you sit down and put the process into words, you have to step outside the day and look at the whole architecture again. Thirty years. Multiple stages. Organs, muscles, fluid, pain, transitions, workarounds, things lost gradually enough that Normal was rebuilt around them.
That is harder than simply feeling the symptom.
So skipping a day or two is not necessarily losing the record. Sometimes it is how Normal survives the existence of the record.
The physical signal tonight is quieter but still useful. Weight has held at 164 after the recent rapid movement between 160.5 and 165.1, which suggests that, for the moment, the loading/unloading behavior may have paused around a new level rather than continuing in one direction.
The right arm also remains altered rather than resolved.
The pain now shows itself mainly in the bicep with use, accompanied by slight weakness, and you recognize an echo of the Fungal Associated Transient Myositis episode from a couple of years ago. Not the same severity. Not the same state. But similar enough in quality to trigger recognition.
That is the recurring pattern in this progression: never exactly the same state, but familiar motifs returning in different arrangements.
And today, despite all of that, you worked from the office.
Observed Normal again.
The outside world sees a workday.
The archive records what it cost to make one.
The broadcast continues.
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