good news for a change today, my new rheumatologist thinks that I don't have gout (it was a psoriatic arthritis flair that got misdiagnosed most likely) so that is one less med I have to take and she is going to put me on something that is not only approved for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis but is ALSO approved to treat colitis and (AND OMG) ( Read more... )

Ok, some nights are just more difficult than others. I actually went to bed but then woke up three times in the space of a couple hours, or less maybe, because things hurt and moving makes them hurt worse and so third time unlucky now I cannot get to sleep and I actually needed to be up in the early morning (ok, early in my life is 9am, don't ( Read more... )

That was the intro to some whacked out piece of prose I did for humour on the speech team many years ago... um... three decades ago, jayzuzgawd how'd I get to my mid-forties already? Shouldn't I still be an idjit teenager? Well, no, and I wouldn't go back unless I could take all the stuff I know now with me because, yeah, there's some stuff I ( Read more... )

still awake, gah

Another weekend and a half slept through. My day and night patterns are off and I have no incentive whatsoever to fix it. This is not a life of leisure, people, it is a life of frustration and med induced napping.

No wonder people hate retirement, aimless uselessness is boring as fuck.

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What is with the sleeping this week. I know that usually I do not sleep worth a damn but holy hells, all I have done this week is sleep, in fact one day I slept all but about 4 hours. gah! Dear Circadian Rhythm, please to regulate yourself ASAP. I may not have anything to do but wakefulness during daylight (what there is of it this time of year ( Read more... )

How does this happen? So not ready for another year, hell I haven't been ready for a new year since the 80s sometime ( Read more... )

I live in a state that did not take the available federal Medicaid expansion. I have been denied disability twice because my former HMO refuses to allow their staff to fill out ANY social security disability paperwork. My third appeal wil...l not even get a court date until the end of this year at the earliest. I have not been physically capable of ( Read more... )

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I have been AFK for a while because I have been helping a friend with some babysitting, one and a half and three years, very cute kids who are amazingly well behaved for me. (not always for grammy when she gets home, but what can ya do?) My friend MB has custody of her two grandkids and so I have helped a few hours this week with the kids since ( Read more... )

Had a moment of reliving my childhood on Saturday. Or I should say, reliving a chunk of childhood I didn't know about until after the fact. That doesn't make sense, let me explain ( Read more... )