Posts Tagged ‘disability’

21
Jul
2023

Okay, so cardiac asthma got me feeling like:

categories: personal; word count: 170 words

About every month to month and a half I feel like I’m “short of breath” for a few days even though my lungs, with the help of medication that I take as needed for bronchial asthma, are able to draw in air just fine. But people in their thirties “don’t have heart problems”, even though I very clearly do. If this continues to happen, as I’m sure it will, I’m going to ask for a referral to a cardiologist so that they can give me better medication to manage it than I am currently on. This is annoying, because I could definitely be doing better things this summer — better than dealing with this, at any rate. “Ways to stop feeling pressure on my chest” is fun…

Take aspirin.
Take aspirin with Benadryl.
Put prescription-strength lidocaine on my chest.
Take warm bath to force arteries, veins, and such to dilate rather than constrict.

…nope, it’s still definitely there, I still definitely have cardiac asthma, but it is helping a little bit.

03
Jun
2023

I would have written something of more substance…

categories: personal; word count: 140 words

…but in spite of having fairly frequent if not constant migraines for God only knows how long, and “being able to work”, I haven’t been able to do much. I’m still wondering what people expect me to be able to do.

I have managed to finish getting Bub birthday presents, though! This meant that I finished pre-ordering video games for him for the month (which are played after I’ve taken a dose of Fioricet or drunk kratom tea, which I will address in later posts because the latter actually works a lot more than the former), to include some farming and fetch quest games that I know he’ll enjoy. I like to keep games pre-ordered out in advance for Bub so that as he gets games every month, or every few months, there are more games for him to enjoy.

01
Jun
2023

I need to come up with better subject lines.

categories: personal; word count: 132 words

I would have written something of substance in here, but I continue to fight for disability benefits.

I am also more seriously considering the move out of Texas when that time comes, and taking steps to plan for it. The money donated to the kids’ ABLE accounts will be saved up for moving truck and transportation purposes when that time does come, as I would like to explore content creation in a state that is friendlier to disabled people and has better supports and services. The primary goal is getting out of Texas, though. I swear, this state is following right behind Florida making itself absolutely inhabitable to marginalized people.

As of right now, I am approximately a third of the way there and am more actively going to commit to this.

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