That will be one story you will remember forever. And if he is your forever guy, it will be a strong shared experience. (BTW, I did not know that we were customers of the same power company … not really, but that story feels like it was our power company here.)
Separately, I don’t want to intrude unasked, but I was concerned about your headaches…
My wife had unexplained headaches in the lower-right back of her head, behind her ear. I play a doctor in my fantasy life – I am actually a pretty good UN-degreed diagnostician – so I had a consult with Dr. Google, tracing all the medications that my wife was taking. It turned out that one of them causes the exact kind of headaches she was having – it was a medication that nobody would expect for that side effect. She had used the medication for 2-3 months before the headaches started, so it was hard to recognize that the medication was the cause. After consultation with her doctor, she stopped using that medication and the headaches went away very quickly. That’s not a “double blind study”, but it matches up with a published, but rare, side effect.
So… If you take ANY medications (or if you use herbal supplements, teas, etc.), you might want to both research the side effects of individual medications and then systematically go through an “all possible combinations chart” of combinations of medications and their combination side effects. (Of course doing this will scare you to death because even a glass of water can theoretically kill you.)
Lastly, years later, my wife started having a different kind of headache. The answer was a complete surprise to us… Some of the muscles and nerves in the upper back and neck connect to the top of the head. Tension in the upper back and neck can cause very real (and painful) headaches in / on the back and top of the head. According to my wife, the surface of her head would ache; quite different than any other kind of headache she had previously had. The solution was 3-4 weeks of once-per-week physical therapy and training of stretching exercises she can do on her own. Problem solved.
Okay, really lastly… I was very slow to accept using AI tools to do research on various subjects. However, a few weeks ago, I ran into some very difficult needs / problems at work… and out of frustration I tried Google AI (just using their AI tool through the normal search method, but clicking the AI button). I have been absolutely amazed at the depth and comprehensiveness of the information that I have been able to obtain, the quality of the interactions (it is “spooky good”), the very real-seeming intelligence of the AI’s questions it asks of me to further diagnose certain problems that I have posed to it, etc. This ranges from successfully researching a “regular” person at an odd address in a small European town during WWII… to actually writing for me a Perl script that was beyond my capability to write… to trouble shooting some bizarre problems with a specific sub-version of a widely-used, but very technical, software but that is about 15 years old (it was like the AI had 15 years of experience using that software itself and it knew exactly how to step through a couple dozens diagnostic steps)… to explore the differentiation points (or not) for medical conditions that could be caused by different medical problems… to discover the (wonderfully surprising) results of very-hard-to-find animal medical research related to a human condition of interest to me… And that is just the last few weeks. Oh, and this week Google AI knew exactly how to deal with FedEx trying to collect a tariff from me, months after the fact, that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared illegal and the government is refunding to people who previously paid it. If I say so myself, I am a very experienced Internet-searcher, computer user, and computer systems administrator, etc., but the free Google AI tool goes a thousand times beyond anything I have ever been able to accomplish / learn through standard Internet searching. My point is that if you have a problem, concern, or question, give Google AI a try – of course don’t trust blindly (especially if medical), but consider it to be an exploration tool. BTW, “prompt writing” – what and how you write to ask AI tools to answer questions or to do stuff for you – is one of the hottest jobs in the world these days – it is both an art and a science.
I hope your find your solution to what you are dealing with.
I’ve honestly had a really hard time with my writing there. Like I got super self-conscious about the quality and what I was actually saying. Then I met my current partner in 2024 and my focus kinda shifted to him rather than my weirdo fantasy stories. But you guys have been so sweet when I shared my experiences here and it made me want to go back and try again. I’m really trying not to overthink and just have fun with it. But I get so nervous clicking submit and waiting to see how people are gonna judge me!