i have a cold. they used to be inconvenient. now, i think i might actually kind of want to strangle something, maybe.

and i can't
take
anything
for it.

i'm a wussy bastard this year.

[EDIT; 0416: i'm drowning in mucus.]

my doctor's assistant called today to inform me that the insurance company denied our request to increase my humira dosage. the assistant has rheumatoid arthritis, though, and knows how serious this can be, so she's gone to bat for me. she's calling her contacts, drug reps, anyone she can think of to try and get this all sorted out, and maybe ( Read more... )

so, i was thinking i'd move to australia. our sleeping schedules are all kinds of inline these days. of course, i could never bring myself to use 's' where 'z' should be, and while i have as much love for the 'u' as any other letter of the alphabet, i'd rather use it in moderation. that, and i make myself laugh whenever i say "chockablock," so i ( Read more... )

i had an appointment with my rheumatologist today ( Read more... )

i've had a bit of interest in the "outside" world, so i thought, for the sake of my roommate, that i would pretend that interest carries over here and wax about my rather uncommon (as i know it) ailment.

in other words...

( ...there be rambling behind this cut... )

i made the trip out to the island yesterday to talk to my human resources manager. she said that, because the orthopedic surgeon could not give a reasonable expectation of the ability to work, i would not be allowed to do so until i saw the rheumatologist. however, that not being until the 17th, i would have pointed out before then and lost my ( Read more... )

so, i was going to update last night, but by the time i got home, all i really had the energy to do was slap up a few comments and hit the sack ( Read more... )

only some things, as an update is woefully overdue.

my birthday came and went quietly, without much ado. to be honest, i don't understand the need for anything more; love from those family and friends most thankful for my birth all those years ago is entirely sufficient. now, should i make it to eighty retaining all my faculties, every birthday ( Read more... )

summer colds suck.

verizon is the bane of my existence. the bane, i say.