Jan 11, 2022, 7:48 PM
Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff
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Got really bad news today. Trying very hard to not think because I'll just keep crying.
2022 has been a shitshow so far.
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IT'S GIRL SCOUT COOKIE TIME!!!
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@prism said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Got really bad news today. Trying very hard to not think because I'll just keep crying.
2022 has been a shitshow so far.
I don’t really know you, but big hugs anyway
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I think that many people are in the middle of a trauma response mental health wise. I know that I am and in talking to more and more people I am finding that right now very much feels like the beginning of the cascade of shut downs at the beginning of the pandemic, even though intellectually its understood that it is unlikely to happen again in the same way.
I feel stressed because I know I'm going to get sick at work and infect my family, and I do not believe there will be any sort of health order given this time to slow or mitigate it. There isn't a will for that, not even in my state. My anti-mask/virus isn't real friends and family are stressed because just like when the first shutdowns happened they're convinced that they are going to get rounded up and put in a camp.
We don't have a president who says as many stupid and weird things as Trump did anymore but he still is going to be biz first (and to be honest thats why he got elected really). So we are still going to have piecemeal state to state policies and actions but I think it will be more like FL rather than my state the first time round.
I know so many people who are ill (with the virus) right now, personally. I also know very many people who are in slow-motion mental health crisis and I wonder how many of us will survive the next few years. I suspect this is super wide spread as far as what people are feeling.
So I hope everyone takes care as much as they can. One foot in front of the other.
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How I know I am getting old: I am super excited we got a new, bigger, stand up (vs chest) Freezer.
My hands are hurting me from moving everything from one to the other, but.. so excite! There's a whole drawer for chicken breasts and other meat. And I now know just how many steamable veggies I actually have. OMG.
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@macha YAY FOR NEW FREEZER! I got SO excited for my first deep freezer. Hell, I'm still celebrating my first set of matching furniture!
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@too-old-for-this We don't even have actual living room furniture. I have my work stuff out here, and so does she. She has a bunch of totes and crap she can't cram into a closet somewhere, so we don't have room for even a loveseat.
Someday.
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@macha My personal PC is in the living room (work pc in the bedroom because I'm weirdly protective of the work stuff), but there's just barely enough room for the couch and one recliner. XD
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- 25 days later
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I just feel awful all around. Our outbreak of ringworm is really bad.
Calypso is missing 12+ patches of hair. Kiva hasn't lost hair, but still. Lyra, Gus, and Arya still aren't showing any signs - but that doesn't mean anything. There is still one more week from when they were exposed for the 28 day incubation period.
But what is worse is that we just got news that the gem babies (our last litter) have all popped with it. One family took home THREE of them, so they have three kittens losing hair and sheding the fungus. The other family has a dog and a six year old.
I feel terrible for those two families, especially the 6 year old.
Then there is the fact that the gem babies were all in the large kitten room with six other cats for several days. So all of those cats are exposed PLUS an entire room in the shelter is infected.
All because I wasn't careful enough coming home from the shelter.
I have cried every day this week and basically all morning as I try to disinfect my own home which feels completely impossible.
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@silverfox I am wishing I could hug you. Mistakes happen, head up. You've done so much good.
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@silverfox You didn't give any of them ringworm. You just got caught unaware by it. Not your fault.
- 12 days later
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So I wasn't sure whether to put this here or RL Things I Love, so I opted for here because it's more specific:
I take a (really pretty optional) medication that the details of aren't super important.
What's important is, I got a new version of this medication -- one that my insurance pharmacy stuff apparently doesn't cover.
They approved my claim and are like 'congrats! You owe us $1600 for a one month supply, but we put it toward your deductible of 2000 and your out of pocket maximum of 3500'.
...for a medication that I don't actually pay for anyway and only turned into insurance because there was a spot on the website for insurance.
Thanks, insurance company, for not covering a med I get for free and putting me that much closer to not having to pay for anything else this year. Appreciated!
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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Uh. This is a bad faith claim, if I ever heard of one.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Uh. This is a bad faith claim, if I ever heard of one.
I mean, possibly? I don't really know what to do about it. There are some procedural details that are super boring or whatever, but basically 'if insurance does not cover it it will be covered by another thing', but the website requires insurance information, so.
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Since I have talked a lot about my life, I will give a little update.
I am past Omicron and back at work. I am not 100 percent better though. While I got less sick from Omicron than early wave covid, the long term effects seem to be lingering longer. That being said I am not totally sure how much is Omicron and how much is just fatigue in dealing with the Pandemic or even a more pysch reaction to to all. I don't know. I probably have covid PTSD and covid fatigue.
I have been super fatigued and have covid brain fog (which is better than it was) as someone born with developmental issues, it seems to have set me back a bit. That being said each day seems a little better and I have hope that I will get back my pre covid baseline.
Some rpers have been so patient with goofy brain fog poses and I appreciate that.
That I am back at work and getting through my days speaks volumes for doing better. My energy and charting at work both been very very hard - days are difficult to make it through in a way they weren't before.
That being said I work 12-17 hour shifts and that I used to be able to back to back 17 hour shifts was some epic stamina, so maybe I am just being normal that I am exhausted, idk! But its not normal for me.
The outbreak at my work is passing us by. We lost some patients, all staff and most patients survived this outbreak. I am heartbroken over some of our loses in Omicron and earlier waves, but cannot really speak about that.
I am hopefully that maybe we have immunity to Omicron 2 and will be good for a while.
We got some strong travelers and a new staffer who is absolutely bad ass when it comes to recruiting. Despite the intense nursing shortage we are doing much better at getting in staff. He is a rock star and lure people in from all over the country, some real rock stars and warriors. I feel less alone in our battle there.
Do to my extreme exhaustion and our increased staffing, I am cutting hours down to 3-4 days a week and taking at least 3 days off every week.
I can rp some now and even been in the mood to play some! Been having an absolute blast at Liberation mush and really enjoyed my scene the other night on Arx ran by Scraps. I appreciate the people who run Liberation and Arx, giving us places to play.
It is kind of day by day at this point.
I super appreciate all the people in mushing and on MSB, who have been supportive ooc during my covid journey, listening to my posts here and some who listened to my ooc covid trauma. Some who don't even like me much, been super kind.
We have some negative things about mushing communities, but there are some wonderful things as well and even when I didn't play much - mushers were super supportive to me through this all.
I like MSB sometimes as a safe place to talk about real life, it is sort of yelling into the void and might be read and might not read, but sometimes that is just what needs. It is is a bit like journaling.
Tomorrow, I am back to the battlefield - need to get through my 3-4 days straight depending on if I get called in and a little nervous, cause my energy sucks, but well I will do my best, its all we can do, our best.
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My mother has a hard time not doing things herself. It is fine, she often has to or nothing will get done.
This just means that if she WILL give over something then it means she really is feeling poorly.
Between losing her father and this cold that just won't let her go, she's not feeling good. It says a lot that she was willing to let me take over contacting my siblings for who can come to the funeral.
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Have I entered a state of delusion, or can a landlord suddenly change rules/terms/fines for xyz on a lease without advance notice or it being.. oh, signed?
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@macha I'm not a lawyer, but my gut is telling me no?