( SUPER LOUD )

Please to be recommending to your under- or uninsured friends the website NeedyMeds.org. I spent the morning there, and I think I've got my shit covered once my insurance runs out later this month. It really is a godsend.

Thanks for revving up your monster truck's un-mufflered engine right at my window this morning at 5:00 a.m. Installing that truck-backing-up signal was certainly worth the effort. And congratulations on perfecting your eight point turn.

Vanishingly little love,

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So it's perhaps past time to flog my horse, as it were (the week's more than half over....). So pull out something orange (an orange even) and wear it (or eat it) while you read.

The stimulus package might have some good news ("hundreds of millions" are scheduled to be disbursed to health-care related facilities, some of which research multiple ( Read more... )

I'm doing the MS Walk this year.

( MY WALK PAGE LET ME SHOW YOU IT )

( I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT BATTLESTAR GALACTICA )

So that was anti-climactic. Only a blood draw and some form-signing! It turns out that medieval eye exam will never again be performed on me! Or at least not till they replace the specialist who was on staff back in 2007 and is no longer. YAY.

My favorite phlebotomist there (Art) was my guy today (pain free stick, fast draw, chatty and friendly). I ( Read more... )

( Medical Blather! )

Post-injection tonight, I realized my sharps container was getting a mite heavy. It's kind of pretty, when it's not morbid, and if you don't have an injectable-drug addiction (cette boite rouge, ce collecteur à aiguilles represents lesions having shrunk, no?).

Anyway.

( sparing your friends page )

Six months ago I had a not-very-heartening MRI: two new lesions (taken April 2, right before I turned in my first draft of Ch 1). I tried my best to be positive, because three months on the Avonex was not enough time to really expect results and, as the timeline showed, even with the new, ACTIVE lesions, I got a draft done of chapter one. I will ( Read more... )