The House of Orange

907_Reefer · Apr 16, 2023

Fish Styx said:
Nice! Yeah, i'm gonna sneak in some maintenance and testing later on myself. I had a sizeable phosphate spike that is causing some browning. I also acquired a rusty, beat up old RadioFlyer-style red wagon, though it's a different make. Gonna restore it, and instead of painting the RadioFlyer logo on the side, in the same font/style, it will say, "Deliveries" and live on my front porch. I might get started on that later this week, depending on motivation.

Nice on the Radio Flyer!

PS I skipped tank maintenance today, shhh..

Fish Styx · Apr 16, 2023

907_Reefer said:
Nice on the Radio Flyer!

PS I skipped tank maintenance today, shhh..

Me too! I won't tell if you don't...

907_Reefer · Apr 16, 2023

Fish Styx said:
Me too! I won't tell if you don't...

Your secret is safe here

Round 2 coming up shortly:

rmorris_14 · Apr 16, 2023

I skipped last night and said I would do it today…. I’m paying for that. All I want to do is go lay down after the kids go down. Nope..

Fish Styx · Apr 16, 2023

rmorris_14 said:
I skipped last night and said I would do it today…. I’m paying for that. All I want to do is go lay down after the kids go down. Nope..

Fortunately, I did one on Thursday, so I have a little wiggle room. Having a phos issue

907_Reefer · Apr 16, 2023

rmorris_14 said:
I skipped last night and said I would do it today…. I’m paying for that. All I want to do is go lay down after the kids go down. Nope..

Dose children at noon = more free afternoons:

Melatonin-gummies_4c5ba01a-2c4f-4bfa-b953-e452b4432b12.png

Fish Styx said:
Fortunately, I did one on Thursday, so I have a little wiggle room. Having a phos issue

How much P04 we talkin?!

Fish Styx · Apr 16, 2023

907_Reefer said:
Dose children at noon = more free afternoons:

How much P04 we talkin?!

Bad...

tbrown · Apr 16, 2023

Not bad per se... Could definitely come down on the phosphates. Mine are 0.00... tell you what, I'll take half.of yours and you can have half of mine?

Fish Styx · Apr 16, 2023

tbrown3589 said:
Not bad per se... Could definitely come down on the phosphates. Mine are 0.00... tell you what, I'll take half.of yours and you can have half of mine?

Deal!

crusso1993 · Apr 17, 2023

907_Reefer said:
Your secret is safe here

Round 2 coming up shortly:

1ocean · Apr 18, 2023

Fish Styx said:
Greetings, Team Styx. I know I've been conspicuously absent for a bit. For that, I apologize. A few weeks ago I spent about 3 hours in an MRI tube so that they could do a full brain and spine series both with and without IV contrast, and my brain lit up like a Chrsitmas tree.

I have white matter lesions, bilaterally in my frontal and temporal lobes, and in my corpus collosum. I have been juggling a lot of doctors' appointments and trying to wrap my head around this. Or, as @crusso1993 has told me, isolating.

The doctors have been ruling out a bunch of stuff, and while they cannot make a definitive diagnosis yet, it is looking like I have MS. Apparently, as I'm learning, it can take some time to reach that conclusion as it is largely a diagnosis of exclusion. So, for the time being, I am in what is known as "diagnosis limbo".

Sorry for being absent, my focus has been elsewhere while I've been trying to get a handle on things and what this means moving forward. Truth be told, the only thing that changes, is now my medical team knows what's wrong with me and can start tailoring some treatmemt options for managing symptoms. So at this point I'm gonna do what I've always done: ranger up and charlie mike.

I'll try to be more present.

hope you get better and get answers. sending good vibes your way...perhaps you need more orange in you world and around you...lol just joking, trying to make you laugh but I truly hope the best for you...

1ocean · Apr 18, 2023

Fish Styx said:
Hahaha. No, I like you just fine. Now, if you had an orange stand I might like you more, though.

hey fish stxy do you want his orange stand??? I could sent a special team to extract it and deliver the package to you before it even gets noticed it is missing,,,,lol...just kidding ..thought I would make you laugh since you have a lot on your mind medically...

1ocean · Apr 18, 2023

crusso1993 said:
I had a best friend once. We got into an argument about how many hits of acid were too many. This argument took place through telepathy after we had taken about 20 hits over an unknown period of time. Now that I think about it, he may have not even known he was in the argument. Or maybe it was all a dream as most of this thing called “life” is… I’ve sometimes wondered whatever happened to him as he was someone I met on the bus on the way to Hawthorne Race Track.

or perhaps "he" was never real...hahahah

Fish Styx · Apr 18, 2023

1ocean said:
hope you get better and get answers. sending good vibes your way...perhaps you need more orange in you world and around you...lol just joking, trying to make you laugh but I truly hope the best for you...

Mission accomplished! I appreciate it, thank you.