One week update

 

I mean what I say, I'm down with this if it means the Gospel got shared somewhere I couldn't go otherwise.  

I did have a hard time yesterday going to the doctor - actually going.  I guess PTSD from Ron.  I have PTSD from my marriage, my "haircut" last year, but not from a brutal accident.  

Someone at work said I should amplify my injuries to get more money out of the bus company.  That's not who I am.  I'm not doing that.  

But it was hard to actually get myself to the doctor.  I was OK once I got in there especially when I started handing out my "candy" but just walking in was hard.  

But I loved the NP and would love to see her again, have her as my primary.  She is very practical.  I just like her a lot.  I haven't felt that way about one of my own medical providers in a very long time.  

The very sweet and efficient desk clerk basically told me I had a terrible medical plan and I was on the hook for the first $3K of medical expenses this year.  That's exactly what I expected.  

Today I work 12-9.  I plan to call Ace and get a ride home as I have to work pretty early tomorrow morning.  

The cats are good; I've decided I will talk about them in general terms only and I'm not putting any pictures.  My friend was right: when I put up pictures and talk about them I am making them targets.  

That's it for now.  

I had a bad night

 At one point poor, sweet, Spotty came and laid on my arm, purring.  It hurt like hell but I found it very sweet and didn't move him.  

I like to keep about $40 on my bus fare card, and I was down to about $10.  I'm human, I don't want to give hours of my pay to people who hurt me.  But I turned it in my head and thought about all my wonderful drivers, that I would give them the money.  And I put $30 on it.  

Metro has a policy you have to go to one of the "ride stores" if you want to renew a disabled card (mine broke last year).  So I had to buy a standard one last year which costs me twice as much every time I ride.  I have thought it would be a nice gesture if they sent me a new (disabled) one with serious fare on it.  

I already have plenty of done up candy and I am bringing my needlework.  I'm not taking a shower, I didn't do anything strenuous yesterday and frankly I'm tired.  I'm hurting. 

Chronic pain is hideous.  The good news this is not permanent.  But it's going to be a process.  

I thought this was fun; making cell phone holders

 

My arm hurts doing this but I can push through.  

Another video blog

 

Video blog

 

It's been a very rough month.

 I got very sick, then had horrendous allergy issues as I recovered.  I am still battling that.  

Biscuit died.  

Accident on the bus.  

Came home to bad news last night.  It is survivable but I just have a lot on my plate.  

It's my day off, I woke up at 4 AM.  I went ahead and got up, made a delivery order.  

Someone asked me if they could help last night.  I thought about it for a moment and said "Do you know what I really need?" "What's that?"  "I need you to tell me it's OK to be lazy on my days off".  She gave a sad chuckle and said "Of course you can."  

I thought it was funny how God worked my dinner last night.  I had planned to get something cheap, looked at the cottage cheese and it was sold out (or a recall?  I don't know), I went ahead and walked up "the meat wall" (self explanatory) in grocery, saw some raw pork with yellow markdown labels.  I had a look - saw some seasoned pork tenderloin chops, $4 for a nice tray.  I got them.  

I also found some markdown (8 ounce) raw sugar snap peas.  They were fine, one was getting a little iffy but I just threw it out and ate the rest.  

So I had a very nice pan seared pork tenderloin and a huge bowl of raw sugar snap peas (I washed them) for dinner - much better than what I planned, only $6 for all of it.  And I'm going to get 3 meals out of it.  

I figure between my allergies and my injuries I can use the protein, as well.  I am also taking large doses of antioxidant vitamins (A, C, E), B complex, multivitamins.  I have to say the allergies are significantly better.  

Let's see how the arm looks.  

 

Yeah, still pretty bad.  It's only been about 60 hours.  Yes, it hurts.  

That's it for now!  

I was in an accident

 I will give a more detailed account of the last few days but I have to get ready for work.  

Video explains what happened anyway.