medical visit, and a transit note

I had my twice-a-year Ocrevus infusion this morning. They took blood to run some tests my neurologist wanted: the MtAuburn labs and MyChart are efficient. They took the blood around 9:00, and the first results were available at 9:45. My Vitamin D levels are excellent! 71.1 ng/mL, with the "good" range being 30-100. My neurologist was aiming to get it up from about 35 to 50 because they think there's a connection between Vitamin D and MS. Note: a couple of years ago the "reference range" was being given as 20-100; if you were at the low end of normal by that standard, they may now consider you to be deficient in vitamin D even if the actual number hasn't changed.

Also, the Transit app is now asking: do you think the bus stop is accessible? how crowded is your bus? did the bus arrive when you expected, or significantly early or late? and whether the other passengers are masking. For my bus home, the answers were yes, accessible; somewhat crowded; about when I expected (for the revised arrival time, but there's no room to be that specific); almost everyone was masking. (I took a Lyft to the hospital, because an 8:30 appointment would have put me pn a rush hour bus, and with little slack if a bu trips was cancelled.) I wore my boat-style N95 mask for about several hours, removing and restoring it a few times to eat, and twice to take pills. I continue to be pleased with these masks.

Ocrevus and my covid risk

I have heard back from my neurologist: yes, the Ocrevus makes me more vulnerable to covid (and probably other infections), but the effect kicks in about two weeks after the infusion.

Between that and the half-life of the monoclonal antibodies, my risk yesterday was as low as it's likely to get anytime soon, whether or not the case numbers go up because of holiday gatherings, unmasked airplane and transit passengers, or for any other reasons.

Tomorrow's plan is to stay home, zoom with my mother in the afternoon, and not do much else. Saturday I will be seeing adrian_turtle.

I should also think about other things that have to be in person, and that I could plausibly do in the next two weeks. (