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Edinblog Days 3 & 4
🕑 Added 2019-08-05 00:06:22 +0000 UTCI got home tonight coated in sweat, tears, rain and someone’s spilled Coca-Cola, also mildly dehydrated and pretty satisfied overall.
On Saturday I did Audience Warmup for Susan Calman’s Fringe Benefits Show for the BBC. The show was solid but hard work. I did a bunch of other spots that were fun as well.
Sunday looked like this:
Which was extremely busy and lovely working different skills with different colleagues. In the gap in my schedule I went to see Jonny and the Baptists, which I anticipated being a quite fun pump up show before heading off to Mythos, given their high-energy silly/political musical comedy.
It was all of those things but also had some heartbreakingly sweet sad songs that just got me right in the fragile Fringe this-time-of-year- thinking-about-my-mum and I wept uncontrollably in the dark until the end of the show and then dashed off to do MYTHOS with my first reviewer in.
The show went well, and I was happy with the audience, and I think they were happy with me, and then as I packed up while they were leaving, thinking “well, the reviewer might not like my style of comedy, but they can’t in honesty say that wasn’t a good show”. And then I realised I’d forgotten a really important line right at the end that ties up two major threads of the show, and felt like an idiot through the rest of the evening.
A rollercoaster of a day. Also I got rained on, but that’s Edinburgh.
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It's not as common here but has become more widespread. Glad I'm not the only Patron sending Lyme concerned messages! My friend visiting me in Edinburgh next weekend ran a hiking, camping, and outdoor travel group for a long time, and a couple of people in the group were badly affected by it. It's main reason I know about it.
Oh good! I clearly misheard. I know Lyme does exist in the UK but it seems like the prevalence is much lower than in NY state in the US, which is awesome. I don't at all want to be an alarmist, but Lyme is so unpleasant and hits the brain so hard that it felt important to mention it. My dearest hope is that you have a robust immune system and no signs of Lyme!
Thanks Brooke! I have a week left of Doxycycline as prescribed originally, but I’ll go get a second opinion. It was in York in England, so it’s whatever the U.K. local standard is, but definitely worth double checking something that intense
Hey Alice! I was listening and heard about your NY tick bite. How long are you on antibiotics? Lyme disease and other tick borne illnesses are RAMPANT in this area. I got Lyme when I was 13 in the south east where doctors thought it wasn't possible to get it and finally got diagnosed after moving up to Connecticut last year. The CDC standard is 21 days, but most Lyme literate doctors recommend 6 to 8 weeks of antibiotics (usually doxycyline) to prevent Lyme from taking hold in the body. I think the NHS can do Lyme testing now, but I would strongly recommend getting tested when you've reached the one month mark after your bite.
