the blog of a disabled mother who likes to game, and "get in the pit"
I can now download some of Bub’s larger games to the laptop, which makes me really happy! This means that he will have access to all of his games on the laptop and the desktop, so he can use either to play them (and should be at the same place in all of them since the majority of these games save on the cloud, which makes me even happier)! He’s been loving the fact that I’ve been putting more of his games on the laptop.
Since I was… bitten during the first bad meltdown Bub has had in more than two years, my doctor wanted to refer me to wound care to have them take a look at and manage it due to my history of immunosuppression and fluctuating blood sugar levels due to the medications that I’m on and have been on. This did not surprise me one bit. I’d like some of the bandages that they give me because those will stick to the bite wound and offer me some relief. And as stated in previous posts, I managed to sprain my ankle something fierce rolling on it after I got out of bed not even remotely fully awake from a nap — lesson learned, I suppose. I was prescribed some pain medication to make the bite wound hurt less and to make it possible for me to bear enough weight on my foot to ambulate around the house better than I had been (my goal). Goal achieved.
It doesn’t alter my mental status at all, though. Some people… have that happen when they take certain pain medication, and I am evidently not one of them. I’ve never been one of them. I’m still figuring out why that is.
For the sake of thoughtfulness, my gynecologist has stated that he is willing to… fight my insurance to get me a tubal ligation, “just in case”. This is something I am not opposed to him doing for a number of reasons.
It seems that he has an excellent probability of making this occur if the primary reasons for fighting them are my disability, which I gave him permission to use to try and get them to approve it, as well as “my kids being disabled” (and I only have that in quotation marks because although they are, it’s not a bad thing and will never be a bad thing). As much as I intend on moving out of Texas at some point and am definitely not staying here long-term, this isn’t a bad thing at all. It’s insurance against the fact that I’m done having children, always having considered two my happy upper limit, and I do not want to get pregnant again.
He also wants to see a referral to the appropriate specialist made regarding the sagging of some of my skin due to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which was only severely exacerbated by two pregnancies. This has caused an untold number of Staph infections to result entirely out of the blue, and should my youngest son injure me during a meltdown these injuries take longer to heal than he is comfortable with. He wants to see what state Medicaid is willing to cover and then go from there. I am not opposed to that either. Let’s get this done.
These procedures will probably all be done separately due to the time it will probably take for insurance to approve them (and this assumes that insurance approves all requests made to them… I know, right?).
In case any of you are wondering, the convicted pedophile who was ban evading several suspensions on Twitter has had almost all of his suspended accounts reinstated. This shouldn’t even surprise me but it does.
At this point, and entirely as predicted (since so many other people feel the same), I have no faith in Twitter.
This man’s accounts were suspended, burner account after burner account, when Twitter had become aware that he had made yet another account in the days and months before Musk. Now they make it clear that they ignore reports made on him — they sure act on reports that he makes fairly quickly though, letting him game the report system to shut people up that he doesn’t like — and are more than happy with the idea of him actively contributing on a site that minors are allowed to use. As much as a possible cognitive or intellectual disability is the cause for him to continue attempting to conceal his identity from people, his local police department has continued to be more useful than I’d ever thought they would be… I thought it would take a lot more effort to convince them to act against a person who, for so many people, “was just on the Internet”, but I’m guessing that he has been a problem for them for awhile given how quickly they’ve tended to act. They’ve let people who have called in or contacted them with concerns know that they do indeed do periodic well checks on him — imagine being so vile that what you say on the Internet causes you to get well checks at your home and you’ve more or less imagined this dude — and they’ve confirmed that the well checks are being done on the correct person, which people who request well checks are generally allowed to ask and be given relevant information regarding. To add insult to injury, his local police department has also admitted that his behavior is so… bad that it has caused an ongoing investigation to start, especially because it involves so many people from other cities, states, provinces, and even countries, and in the interim are actively encouraging people that he harasses to seek out restraining orders against him by contacting their county’s criminal justice unit. They are doing so much that they don’t have to do to help people out here.
At some point I might divulge his identity — I don’t want him to feel some sick sense of glee out of becoming searchable for what he’s done given that he so desperately wants the resultant attention — as well as link to his child sexual abuse registry listing, which he has to remain on for life and which has to remain public information courtesy of federal law. I might also begin to make a list of… reasons we know who he is in spite of various efforts to deny it. As time gets on it’s like he just confirms his identity in more and more sick ways.