Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

LoaKey

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I am off my meds until these stimulus checks come in because meds without insurance are just way too expensive.

I've been most worried about my depression hitting me hard.
What I didn't expect was the generalized anxiety.

I've been going into anxiety attacks suddenly and without warning since last night. I don't know why I'm anxious (I mean there are REASONS to be but I can't identify which it is so I can work through it). I just am.

Belatedly but not really on this - a lot of the big pharma companies are now automatically approving people that are on unemployment/lost their insurance due to COVID for their patient assistance programs. Worth looking into - I just got word from a few of our pharma reps at the place I work about this.

Auspice

@LoaKey said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I am off my meds until these stimulus checks come in because meds without insurance are just way too expensive.

I've been most worried about my depression hitting me hard.
What I didn't expect was the generalized anxiety.

I've been going into anxiety attacks suddenly and without warning since last night. I don't know why I'm anxious (I mean there are REASONS to be but I can't identify which it is so I can work through it). I just am.

Belatedly but not really on this - a lot of the big pharma companies are now automatically approving people that are on unemployment/lost their insurance due to COVID for their patient assistance programs. Worth looking into - I just got word from a few of our pharma reps at the place I work about this.

How do you get on those?

LoaKey

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@LoaKey said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I am off my meds until these stimulus checks come in because meds without insurance are just way too expensive.

I've been most worried about my depression hitting me hard.
What I didn't expect was the generalized anxiety.

I've been going into anxiety attacks suddenly and without warning since last night. I don't know why I'm anxious (I mean there are REASONS to be but I can't identify which it is so I can work through it). I just am.

Belatedly but not really on this - a lot of the big pharma companies are now automatically approving people that are on unemployment/lost their insurance due to COVID for their patient assistance programs. Worth looking into - I just got word from a few of our pharma reps at the place I work about this.

How do you get on those?

If you go to the website for whomever the manufacturer of the med is, they usually have a link to the form. Your doc will have to sign it, and send a prescription as well. Then the manufacturer will mail the meds right to you.

boneghazi

I have known one of my closest IRL friends for about 20 years was a flat earther for a while and we have finally gotten him to stfu on social media about it but now.....

Now he is a 5G corona believer, man.

Used to be someone I considered one of the most intelligent men I have ever known. Now I am just disappoint.

Grayson

@nyctophiliac Intelligence doesn't mean critical thinking, common sense or anything else like that. I've seen any number of ludicrously intelligent people who hadn't the wit to come in out of the rain.

kk

My real life has been difficult.

I am in tele-health and have been fielding calls from relatives who's family have covid or are in facilities with outbreaks in addition to normal stuff I do. It has been emotional and difficult. Despite that I am very honored to help however that I can and I do feel some guilt for not looking for an in person job.

One of my roommates is always exposed as they are essential and still working. They are doing the right thing and I am proud of them, but it does mean that our household is never out of the woods in terms of exposure.

My son has special needs and is home from school. He is a sweetheart, but teaching a hyper child with autism and ADD from home while working tons of hours, has been a challenge. I have renewed appreciation for his teachers. The online learning platform is not ideal for him. I have had a long running fear of what will become of him if something happens to me and this current crisis has really brought those fears to the forefront, but day by day the fears are getting better and life is going on.

There has been an outbreak in my neighborhood, but my neighbors on the mend. I didn't get sick and nobody in my house did, despite pretty intense exposure. We are actually thinking we might have already had Covid as we got a super flu in Feb that knocked me out like no sickness ever has before with high fevers and shortness of breath.

I would love an anti-body test, but need to be patient for those.

I have friends and family on the front lines and due a combination of supply issues and just not caring enough about little people on the part of their management, they don't have the supplies they need. So I have been spending time and money on getting these supplies and making my home made lysol, which smells like peppermint and probably works better anyways. I feel like in this way, I am helping my friends and family it through, but also my community as they are using to sanatize as they go about their way which can only help.

A friend of mine did pass of Covid. They had serious chronic health problems, but their passing is still...well I cannot put my feelings into words on this.

I feel blessed that I have not go sick despite having auto-immune disease and that my sister with autoimmune disease as well is doing well. I feel blessed to have my son with me and blessed that he is smiling and happy despite it all. I am also blessed to have an income through this all.

But it still has been stressful. I had some struggles trying to come back to Arx and realized I wasn't ready for a full return. That being said, I appreciate the Arx community and some of my friendships found there have got very real. My return will be slow, ic_only for now and probably focused on smaller scenes. It is nice to know that Arx and my characters are still there and I do appreciate that staff is very patient and understanding about real life.

That being said there is much that is wonderful about the mush community and in times of crisis, I appreciate the friends I made even more.I hope everyone stays safe and I think this pandemdic is hard on different people in different ways.

Grayson

@kk That sounds like a combination of hell, sheer hell, and pure hell. I don't envy you in the slightest. I do understand, though, as a key worker and carer for someone at-risk. Stress is no-one's friend right now, and for those of us who have to carry on as 'normal' despite being in a completely abnormal situation, it's hard work.

Feel free to contact either one of me on Arx if you want RP when I'm about; Raymesin is the obvious one, but he's not to everyone's taste.

Quinn

My uncle died of covid this afternoon. Please take this seriously and stay inside and wash your hands and wear masks.

Roz

Upvote is for sympathy. I'm really sorry.

kk

@Quinn

I am so sorry for the lose of your uncle.

And I agree completely with taking Covid serious, wearing masks and washing hands.

Rinel

@Quinn said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

My uncle died of covid this afternoon. Please take this seriously and stay inside and wash your hands and wear masks.

I am so very sorry. Let light perpetual shine upon him.

GreenFlashlight

@Quinn Terribly sorry for your loss. If it's not prying to ask, do you feel someone around him wasn't taking it seriously, or that he wasn't? I wonder because I live in a town not taking it seriously at all, and it scares the hell out of me.

Ganymede

My partner: Can we work out together? I feel like I’m getting fat and lazy.

Also my partner: Can you give me the password to access your computer? I’m too lazy to go upstairs and use the computer with all of my shit on it that you bought me.

Ganymede

My partner before I go downstairs for a drink after I ask her if she needs anything: No, thanks, I’m fine.

My partner after I sit my ass back down on the bed: Can you get a can of soda for me from downstairs?

TNP

@Ganymede Did you toss the 'fat and lazy' back at them? Are you sleeping on the couch?

Ganymede

@TNP

No. Those were her words, not mine.

Sleeping on the couch isn’t a punishment because we have a guest room with a huge bed and her feet are like motherfucking ice.

TNP

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@TNP

No. Those were her words, not mine.

Yes, I was wondering if you reminded her of them given her requests.

Ganymede

@TNP

Of course.

I’m not strongly attached to life.

dvoraen

RE: Taking COVID seriously. In my area we have agricultural workers who are now in quarantine because thirty-six of them tested positive. With no symptoms. I have a fair to good chance of having interacted with them, because they came through work on a weekly/bi-weekly basis.

My parents got a message this week saying I can't interact with them in person until further notice, because now I have no clue if I'd be a ticking time bomb on their health. I could be asymptomatic right now, and getting tested is a tall order since I show none of the signs. Not only that, two of my close coworkers are in the high risk group (age) and they could have been infected. No symptoms yet, but if the virus can propagate without symptoms and they caught it from those same workers...

I think my point is clear about severity. Today I'll be trying to convince my boss and/or THE boss to see if it's possible for a number of us to get tested just to see if our store has been compromised because of this.

JinShei

@Quinn I am so sorry for your loss