I am finally off Ozempic, I literally was getting more and more nauseous and sick with every week that went by, what I didn't expect and what the doctor didn't warn me about was that a week after I went off Ozempic I basically became sick to any and all food. I was having non-stop diarrhea and vomiting that lasted for two weeks, only yesterday and today am I starting to feel a bit more normal. I guess my body had to adjust which I guess makes sense, just wish my doctor could have warned me about that, instead he told me that I would have zero side effects coming off of the Ozempic, bullshit. Also since we took me off Ozempic we put me on Glipizide but I have yet to start it because I found out that two of my medications have a serious interaction with Glipizide. Taking Metformin and Glipizide together will increase a risk of me experiencing hypoglycemia, while Metoprolol and Glipizide together will mask symptoms of hypoglycemia so I won't even know if I am having it... See why maybe I shouldn't go on it, so I need to make an appointment with "Doctor Quack" which is what I will be referring to my doctor as from now on and see what other options there are because I am not comfortable taking that medication.
I will probably be blogging more often from now on, I have found that Bluesky is just like Facebook, lots of people looking for attention and trying to be as loud and obnoxious as possible just to get that attention, also I am seeing just a surge in people getting cancelled. It makes me wonder if the people who are cancelling all these people are perfect because I'm sorry no one is perfect. We all do bad things from time to time and we as human beings need to learn and grow from our mistakes. These Cancel Culture people act like they came out of their mother's womb never have made any mistakes which is so completely delusional, no one is perfect and if we don't let people grow from their mistakes they will continue to make those mistakes. But I feel like I want to share more on here from now on because I can actually share how I feel and if no one reads this that is fine, I just can't do it on Bluesky anymore because its just an echo chamber of misery just like most of the internet has become these days. I remember when the internet was fun and wasn't trying to get you to buy a million things. What happened to that?
I sat down this evening and finally started work on Forest of Memories Vol. 1 Redux, I think I have just been hiding away and taking a break from working on stuff because I felt burned out. I didn't know what I wanted to do and honestly I needed to focus on my recovery which I am not at 10 months sober, the longest I have been sober since April of 2014. Its kind of crazy thinking about it but I feel like I am able to better handle things now, I am still a work in progress but things are better. Trying to decide what songs to actually bring over to the new reworked version. There's a lot of tracks that didn't make it on the first time and I have demos I am even considering putting at the end of the album. Its very fun and exciting to go back to my first album, see where my journey with music started. It feels right going back now since I am working on my recovery and its like I am relearning who Dustin is, seeing what hobbies I enjoy and if they have remained the same or if I have changed over the years. The only track I feel is done and perfect is "How it Feels to be Dead" which is actually the first song I ever wrote for Forest of Memories Vol. 1. Gonna work hard in the coming months to try and get this done for 2026 so I can meet the 15th Anniversary for the album.
