You're all lovely.
I have a full inbox I've read and been glad to read, that's really sweet. I will get to individual replies. Hugs to those going through/remembering similar situations. Hugs to everyone.
My PIP application is underway now I've had help with the form from my very patient and kind sibling, and I really needed it too. PIP is a disabilty benefit that is not means tested, that is there to cover the costs of disability and level the playing field. I have qualified for years and years, but it's quite a hard slog to get, and of course my disabilities make it much harder to deal with the process in the first place. I'm hoping to lengthen the time it takes before I need to apply for Universal Credit for my main source of income because that's also no fun even without the migraines.
I'm leaning on the family accountant to try to get all my paperwork and finances in order because I don't have a clue and keep defaulting to being overwhelmed. So that's just a case of waiting for things to happen without me. It's way less expensive overall to have the accountant Pol and I already have sort things out than to hope I'll do things properly with constant migraines and depression.
I have bed risers! The bed's really heavy. So now instead of climbing a pile of pillows every night, I can have a normal amount and just sleep without terrific heartburn, and I can't slide down the pile and end up lying flat either.
Thanks to people being willing to help me get it back together, I have it back together, or at least I'm eating and I slept last night. At some point everything will be sorted out.
Oh, and the magpie has been by, that's always really cheering. They don't need suet nearly as much as they did. The sparrows have returned to the cut-down buddleia too, now it's grown back enough to shelter them. I felt bad about that, but the thing was filling up my upstairs bedroom window it was so tall, and it was killing the pyracantha that the blackbirds live on all winter. We cut it after the end of the worst of winter but before nesting, the end of February, and then we had some sad bare branches and no birds, where before that it was like having an aviary. Now they're coming back! Shelter is so important! (Especially with magpies around... but I cannot dislike the magpies at all.)
Oh and my neighbour across the back way managed to cause me a crushing disappointment by putting a plastic peregrine falcon by their chimney pot, which fooled me but not the local woodpigeons, who treat it as the scenery it is. I worked it out when it hadn't moved for a while. This entry was originally posted at https://supermouse.dreamwidth.org/85237.html. There are
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My PIP application is underway now I've had help with the form from my very patient and kind sibling, and I really needed it too. PIP is a disabilty benefit that is not means tested, that is there to cover the costs of disability and level the playing field. I have qualified for years and years, but it's quite a hard slog to get, and of course my disabilities make it much harder to deal with the process in the first place. I'm hoping to lengthen the time it takes before I need to apply for Universal Credit for my main source of income because that's also no fun even without the migraines.
I'm leaning on the family accountant to try to get all my paperwork and finances in order because I don't have a clue and keep defaulting to being overwhelmed. So that's just a case of waiting for things to happen without me. It's way less expensive overall to have the accountant Pol and I already have sort things out than to hope I'll do things properly with constant migraines and depression.
I have bed risers! The bed's really heavy. So now instead of climbing a pile of pillows every night, I can have a normal amount and just sleep without terrific heartburn, and I can't slide down the pile and end up lying flat either.
Thanks to people being willing to help me get it back together, I have it back together, or at least I'm eating and I slept last night. At some point everything will be sorted out.
Oh, and the magpie has been by, that's always really cheering. They don't need suet nearly as much as they did. The sparrows have returned to the cut-down buddleia too, now it's grown back enough to shelter them. I felt bad about that, but the thing was filling up my upstairs bedroom window it was so tall, and it was killing the pyracantha that the blackbirds live on all winter. We cut it after the end of the worst of winter but before nesting, the end of February, and then we had some sad bare branches and no birds, where before that it was like having an aviary. Now they're coming back! Shelter is so important! (Especially with magpies around... but I cannot dislike the magpies at all.)
Oh and my neighbour across the back way managed to cause me a crushing disappointment by putting a plastic peregrine falcon by their chimney pot, which fooled me but not the local woodpigeons, who treat it as the scenery it is. I worked it out when it hadn't moved for a while. This entry was originally posted at https://supermouse.dreamwidth.org/85237.html. There are
comments on the original post. If you have no DW account, you may comment on DW using username.livejournal.com as your open ID.