I was nervous going in to my neurologist appointment today because I didn't know if they finally had my Botox injections ready but fortunately they did. After missing two and almost heading on to three rounds of injections due to this office--my last injections were in December, when I'm supposed to get them every three months--my neck had been ( Read more... )

A novella featuring a day in which nothing goes well and everything is wrong, perfectly capping off two bad weeks.

( All of this might as well happen )

While walking to my MRI appointment, my left ankle betrayed me, went out, and sent me plummeting down to the wet concrete. I didn't even slip on anything, it was just my ankle being a bastard. I'm thankful for my phone's protective case, because when I fell my phone skidded facedown across the sidewalk. My glass would've been shredded. The impact ( Read more... )

One of my favorite new YouTube creators is Behind the Seams, which looks at costume design in movies, the good, the bad, and the "huh?" It's by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw of Hello, Tailor.

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Since my left and right shoulders and upper arms are still bothering me and they were especially bothering me Wednesday, I decided to finally go to the doctor. Alas, not everybody takes Medicare and Medicaid as insurance so the primary doctor I currently go to is only in his office in Queens three days a week, four hours a day. I called Wednesday ( Read more... )

Since gasoline has gone up 20¢ a gallon in Queens and Long Island in the last two weeks, I filled up Friday in the worry that it might continue rising. I hope prices calm down a bit once people realize white supremacists haven't taken over the country by force and that Biden isn't extreme left on fossil fuels because if prices keep up like this it' ( Read more... )

( breaking in a new primary care doctor )

The heat and humidity here have been making my headaches much worse as well as making a lot of my old injuries hurt--my left ankle, the return of pain in my left shoulder and upper arm, my right knee, the scar on the back of my head--and seriously sapping my energy. This is the worst summer has been to me in a while. I actually ended up just paying ( Read more... )

I've been sick for over a week now, and it's killing my stamina, head, and ability to write. It's harder than usual to concentrate. I'm wondering if this is the return of my mysterious, undiagnosable April spring thing, where I'm weak as hell for a week or more until it eventually passes on its own ( Read more... )