Month: August 2026

Well, I’m still inpatient. They haven’t mentioned a discharge date, but I’m thinking Friday because the cat sitter can’t work over the holiday weekend. However, it turns out that it was, in fact, a good thing that I came in. I’m usually fine all day until about sunset, at which point I start to struggle….

Well, I’m back on Proctor 2. I feel a lot better since being here, to the point where I feel guilty for having come in because it feels “not bad enough.” However, it is still a problem that the muscles in my upper arms are constantly clenching up as though there’s an immediate threat, which…

Well, I’m here in the ER. This is so embarrassing, which makes it really hard to talk about. But I need to write about it, so I can figure out what the heck happened. After all, so many things in my life are going so well!! Symptoms Well, I’ll start by saying that I’m still…

I want to preface this by saying that the current crisis is humiliating because I want to be doing well and instead I’m falling apart. So I’m writing this to synthesize things I’ve said to various people and try to make sense of the situation. It’s not my best writing by any stretch. The main…

Well, I talked to the Ticket to Work program today. Remember how I thought that if I worked 56 hours a week instead of 16, I’d at least get $800 extra a month? Well, apparently you keep Medicare for roughly 72 months, but you have to pay for Part B, which is $202. So I’d…

I was going to post this before July ended, but here we are. I’m sure my faithful readers can forgive me! Well, I went off to visit my True Love for a few days in mid-July. We had a great time! They took me to Manhattanhenge, which was very cool. Apparently it’s better if there…