A day in the life of ME (only a few will get that)
Fasted last night for blood work this morning
Tried to go to bed early
Didn't work
Never does
Can't find a comfortable position
Woke up after 3 hours of sleep
Went online from 4-5am
Tried to go back to bed
Waited in bed for sleep that never came
Got out of bed at 9am
To the stank of fish
and cabbage
and raw sewage
and kimchi
downstairs
Tried not to vomit
Tried harder not to vomit
Waited outside for my dad to pick me up
To take me to the lab
Waited outside earlier than I had to leave the house
As to try not to vomit
Humans need fresh air you know
Made phone call to one doc office
to straighten out medical bill insurance bullshit
While en route to the lab for blood work
Was put on hold forever
Phone is hard to hold sometimes when your hands hurt
Person on other end can't really help me and tell me to call another person
Doctor's office tells me to call insurance
Insurance tells me to call doctor's office
Fuck that
Get to lab
Get blood drained
Try not to pass out
Genius dad doesn't even bother to hold the door open for me
Take thyroid med
Attempt to wait one hour before eating (you can't eat for one hour after taking this med)
Feel woozy from blood loss and give in to granola bar early
Still nauseous
Not from kimchi, but from the hour long car ride to the doctor we are going to next
Traffic father hour long car ride = not fun
Make some more phone calls in the car on the way
Receptionists never pick up the phone at doctor's office
I leave voicemails
It's what I do
I play phone tag with doctors
It's fun
Arrive at doctor's appointment
Doctor's appointment shenanigans ensue
Hours pass
I won't go into all those details
Nurse informs me that there was a mistake and they ordered the wrong size syringe so now instead of giving myself one injection a week, I have to give myself two.
This does not make me happy
My butt cheeks are sore from injections
Hour long drive home
Scared to go inside apartment for fear of kimchi stench
Stench faded enough that it's tolerable
I spray febreze anyway
Landlord is installing new vent sometime this week
Found out yesterday Koreans downstairs may be moving back to Korea sooner than planned
(I hope)
Anyway
I tell myself I am going to stay awake the rest of the day
and not fall back asleep
no matter what
I make coffee and psyche myself up to stay awake all day
I drink coffee
I fall asleep
For an hour and a half
I get up
Feeling defeated
I eat breakfast
I force myself to walk around the block a few times cus I promised I would
I conquer walking (yay!)
I get home
I shower
I go to my parent's house to finish up taking care of bills/insurance, medical bullshit
Stuff gets faxed
Stuff gets copied
Stuff gets mailed
More phone tag
Fight with father
Start to feel really tired
I know I overdid it
I treat myself to Asia Grill to replenish the blood loss
I talk to my boyfriend on the phone a bit
Mainly me bitching
We watch the Islanders game
But they are losing :(
It gets late
I try to psyche myself up to drive home
Which is 2 miles away
I get VERY fatigued
I am not sure if I can drive home
But I know i have no choice
So I just do it
I'm home
Next doctor's appointment is Wednesday
I need fun
This is ME