I am still fighting to get disability, folks.

Even though my disabilities are physical, it is almost always thrown in my face that I am “intelligent, so I can adapt to work”. Okay then, let me know how I can consistently work in spite of nearly blinding pain (or so the saying seems to go). I’ve had to take bursts of prednisone to break migraines that have lasted for days. I’ve had to wear sunglasses in the house to be able to cope with sources of light. But I’m “intelligent, so I can adapt to work”. I think not. The fact that this is even an excuse here just blows my mind in a really bad way.

At any rate, our stimulus check came just before everyone else that I know got theirs, and they actually counted both of my dependents and gave me the correct amount. That blew my mind in a good way. My rule with these is that as long as we don’t need anything that it can buy (since none of us are working and two of us actually get disability checks), I’ll spoil us with them. It’s the least I can do after we put up with Trump for four years. I was actually able to scalp us a PlayStation 5 for a great price given their shortage, and I got us some games that Bub is sure to enjoy. I also got myself some more cyberlox to wear. I mean, really, why not?

Soon I’ll make a list of the things that I’ve spent it on. I think I did that with the past two checks.

Should this really surprise anyone at this point?

I’ve had to abort two separate migraine headaches now with prednisone… the wrecking ball.

Surprisingly, this doesn’t work extremely well on my lungs any more, but it does work reasonably well on my migraines, helping me restore some semblance of normalcy to my life after I’ve literally tried everything else at my arsenal. Since my insurance rejected my pain management clinic’s request for me to start Botox treatments to the tune of us having to play around with them appealing that, I’m going to ask about starting prednisone “long-term”, either every day or every other day, in the interim as we fight insurance for Botox…

I’m well aware of the side effects of prednisone, having needed it for my asthma as much as I have in the past. But there are days when I don’t want to be confined to bed (or extremely close to that), not being able to do much of anything or what I really want to do that day, so if that means literally sucking it up and starting oral steroid treatment for my migraines, I am amenable, moon face and weight gain be damned.

I was finally able to get in at the optometrist!

This is not a sponsored post. This is me waxing poetic about being blind as a bat.

I found out that my current frames have been retired, so I got these:

They’re not my tried and true frames, but they look like they will do well enough.

I also got these again in sunglass form for my migraines, with the lenses having a dark amber tint:

For the last several years, I’ve been getting my glasses from Zenni Optical. They ship pretty quickly for being as popular as they are, and their glasses have always been high-quality based on my experiences…

This year, my left eye got a bit… better in vision (?), but the astigmatism is worse. My right eye now has astigmatism as well, although it’s very slight and my new prescription should completely correct that. Heh.

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