For anyone and everyone upset about the appearance of Jackson’s statue in Lafayette Park on the obverse of the Tubman $20 bill, which is going to look like this:


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Editrx is not having an easy time of it. She's broke and disabled; she has infected teeth that are in dire need of extensive root canal work (and insurance won't cover this); and the bank has started foreclosure proceedings on her houseHer Paypal account is below; I got it from her LJ. Please contribute. And even if you can't contribute, boost the ( Read more... )

ETA: I have called West Hartford Public Works, because they helped pay for home repairs before. My social worker, who is a lovely man, is doing some double-checking on the company and is sending the guy who DID do my chimney a couple of years ago out to check on the state of the chimney. The social worker, however, feels that they were con artists ( Read more... )

I just got bitched out by Sharon, the daughter of the former P.O.A. She's mad that I didn't "send" her a hundred dollars for pulling the branches that fell from my tree to the street ( Read more... )

You would think that the coming hurricane would be enough to worry about, wouldn't you ( Read more... )

So the Social Security Administration has decided that they have to re-evaluate whether or not I'm still fully and permanently disabled.

This is something that the SSA does regularly, because it's not like permanent disabilities are permanent. The fact that part of Chromosome 5 is missing with me--resulting in an incompletely developed lymphatic ( Read more... )

Well, I called Patient Relations this morning. (Actually, I also called yesterday but I guess they were busy.) So I called again this morning around eight, and told the woman at Patient Relations what had happened. There were QUITE a lot of worried and shocked "Oh, boys" from her. And she did say that while doctors don't usually talk money, he ( Read more... )

Today was a day that illustrated, more than anything, that one of my doctors is out of touch with reality.

( In which I have to fight the medical establishment to stay healthy and solvent. )

angevin2 is having a horrible time of it ( Read more... )

Today I have been filling out ConnPACE, which is a plan which is supposed to be in place for prescription drug coverage. ConnPACE is ratherr silly and very annoying, as the main focus is income and disability. I am not going to suddenly become rich and non-disabled, but the program thinks I will ( Read more... )