9:24pm March 20, 2013

Thank goodness for gift cards.

I feel like shit. I’d been thinking of getting a new iPod (the music kind not the Touch) for a long time because it’s really old and has battery issues. And now a long search of the house by me (bad move – sent heart rate way up and oxygen way low and made me feel dizzy and woozy the rest of the day), and by staff, has turned up nothing. And I think maybe I left it in the hospital. And I can barely read Nancy Drew, due to brain not working. (I was reading it when I was six, mind you. Not with good comprehension but it taxed me less than it does today.)

So all I can do for the kind of music I want at the moment is like, find long Beethoven symphonies on YouTube and play them. Because going song by song for shorter stuff is painstaking and most people do not upload whole albums.

Anyway I found an old refurbished model (several generations back) 16 gig iPod on Amazon, and bought it with gift cards plus money. And I’m happy. Because maybe soon I can play music again the way I want to. And that’s essential when you have just enough brain for music, but not enough for reading or much else, and you can’t DO anything much, and you need distraction from pain and sucky breathing.

And this one cost me less than my last one (same generation) and has twice as much storage space so that’s good too. And makes up for the irritation of having to replace the thing.

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