the blog of a disabled mother who likes to game, and "get in the pit"
I’ve been continuing to keep an eye on the news since I found out that this happened, and I’ve been reading about the protests and the riots. I’m on the side of the protestors and the riots. This shouldn’t have happened. This shouldn’t keep happening. People may be having to take to the streets protesting and rioting during a global pandemic, but this is what clearly has to happen if we are ever going to see any real change.
This summer — which I didn’t know about until now — I got blocked by the casting director of a few shows, to include Big Brother, because I expressed concern over the fact that one of the HouseGuests had admitted on live feeds that prior to being cast, he was addicted to drugs (particularly Xanax), was scoring them “off of the streets”, was not procuring them legally, was also admitting that production was helping him win crucial competitions to stay in the game, and that when he was one of the show’s “Have-Nots”, he snuck potato chips into the shower away from the cameras to eat it when he was supposed to only be eating slop and we never saw the show name “Have-Nots” again. Not only did they pander to this dude and ensure that he won (and he wound up being the winner), but there was the high likelihood that he could relapse $500,000 richer, which production should seriously have seen coming. On top of that, he admitted that he lied on a lot of the questions asked of him on one of their questionnaires before he even came on the show “because they wouldn’t have cast him if he’d told the truth”, which he also said on the live feeds! He got away with all this!
Bringing up these concerns over the span of various Tweets to the casting director, along with the many other people that… you know, did this too, and expressing concern over the show’s declining quality over recent seasons just got me blocked though. Clearly production had another pet here they wanted to pay…
Apparently if you’ve tested positive for COVID-19, or been diagnosed with it by a clinician, you are now barred from enlisting in the military… and it also looks like you won’t be able to serve in the military as well. Given the source of this news, I’m inclined to say that this is fairly accurate. We’re talking about something that is known to cause lung damage in a large percentage of those that it does infect, and the very same something that actually caused a global pandemic. This is one of the (comparatively) few illnesses that causes what’s called “ground glass opacity” in a high percentage of cases, or at least those that warrant hospitalization. You also tend to see that in chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), lung transplant rejection as it advances — oh, and SARS. You saw that in SARS too. So for people to downplay how severe this actually is… they need to stop. People who tout the conservative party line of “99.7% of people survive this and get over it without any problems!” need to really shut up about this because well… that isn’t true.
I know that I had seen this mentioned in other news articles, but this practically confirms all of this.
And yet there are still people out there that insist that this is not actually as severe as it is. Still. Seriously.
Because my old neurologist moved to a new hospital in another city that was too far to commute unless I could not find another neurologist in this area that took my insurance, I had to begin seeing another neurologist. So now I have to play the game of “proving to this one that my migraines are actually as severe and long-lasting as I say that they are”. I’ve been put on another medication that is meant to reduce frequency and severity of migraines, which I’m supposed to try for two months unless we find out sooner that it is exacerbating my asthma — this type of medication has a low risk of doing that, but if it does, I discontinue it. I suppose we will be finding that out in the coming weeks since I just finished a low and brief course of prednisone (since we are in the midst of a global pandemic and I want to have some semblance of an immune system in the event that I am actually exposed to the coronavirus, although I am actually surprised that I have managed to luck out thus far and… not be, or at the very least, not catch it, but that might be due to mask wearing and more frequent handwashing as recommended due to the nature of this).
More doctors need to take patients seriously when they actually try to advocate for themselves, shit.
I’ve been in the migraine game long enough I definitely know what does not work for me at all at this point…
At this point I may just ask for a referral to the local pain management clinic and let them oversee my care.