the blog of a disabled mother who likes to game, and "get in the pit"
· first things first, take Bub to CBT/play therapy one fairly major town over
· get some groceries since the kids are bottomless pits and I need to pick some more things up
· make sure that I have enough space for one more game for Bub and then download that game
· continue to take the antibiotics that I was prescribed by the local hospital
· add more to Monster’s homeschool notes indicating where he has made progress
I had to go to the local hospital on Sunday to get IV antibiotics because, having been on prednisone when Bub pinched my arm in several locations during meltdowns, those pinch marks became infected with Staph since they had broken the skin. The precipitating event was that, in spite of fastidious cleanliness, it managed to jump to the left side of my body where it rapidly moved each day for three days. Urgent care didn’t feel like they could adequately treat that… level of infection, so I was sent to the local hospital. After waiting for several hours, which I expected but found no more entertaining, I was eventually called back, gave several vials of blood to check for different things, and their determination was the same as mine — Staph infection (especially because I have a prior history of opportunistic Staph infections of the skin), and they were going to defer to urgent care’s recommendation that I receive IV antibiotics. Their goal was to bridge me to oral antibiotics as soon as possible, but given the severity of this, I had to be given a medication that I’m allergic to because the allergy is not severe or anaphylactic. I just take Benadryl along with it and report anything more than “a mild to moderate inconvenience” to my care team. Worst case, I head back up to the local hospital. So far I am managing to strag along just itching, which I will gladly accept in light of…
I was going to get the MMO of choice that I wanted to begin playing with Bub, but then I found out that you could pre-order Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet from Amazon, so I went ahead and got one kid each game. Whenever they come, they come. It’s also a lot better than getting them from Wal-mart, because when I tried to get my oldest son Pokemon Diamond from there, you all know how that went, right? It was literally stolen by someone before it could be loaded onto the Hewitt truck to be delivered to my house, and when I asked FedEx about it, the response was to put fraudulent notations on tracking stating that it had been delivered to my house when it had not… you know, when it didn’t take them three days to “figure out” that it had been stolen, first telling me that it had been loaded onto the delivery truck and simply not delivered, then telling me that it hadn’t even been loaded onto the delivery truck to begin with (so that tracking notation had also been a lie). Although I know that I can’t completely avoid FedEx, my goal is to use them for as little as humanly possible because so many of my packages from them come late when they pass through Hewitt, and any time I try to ask their customer service anything about them nothing gets answered to satisfaction. At least Wal-mart promptly refunded me when this actually happened, though.
It’s better than the $53 that the “chief ombudsman” of the state child support office stole from my youngest son’s January payment forcing the case to stay open when multiple good cause waivers had already been sought out and approved for it. I wasn’t supposed to be told that these waivers were still on the case when Stephanie Neely continued to “insist” that it had to stay open, which endangered Bub and me, and when a customer care representative accidentally told me, she told them to tell me that all subsequent communication about closing Bub’s child support case out again had to go to her — no, it does not. And I made that pristinely clear to all involved state agencies. That was why I reported the entire child support office to the National Child Support Agency, which as soon as I let HHSC and the state child support office know yielded quick results, and why I lodged a formal employee complaint against you. According to LinkedIn you have a $90,000 salary and have been working there since before I graduated from high school. Learn to manage your money better and stop attempting to skim off the top of child support cases that aren’t even supposed to be in enforcement to begin with. Maybe also consider getting another job where you don’t endanger children because you want a new purse or another pair of shoes. That would really be nice.
I am once again being failed by my pain management clinic, who for the second month in a row sees fit to drop my Fioricet usage from once per day if needed to five days in a month “because you could be getting medication overuse headache” even though that has repeatedly been ruled out in my medical files over the course of the several years that we have failed to do this song and dance. So I guess the alternative to that is me being in pain for extended periods of time, wishing that migraine patients (I have the diagnosis, you’ve seen the inside of my head through MRI scan because that was how you found out I have a brain tumor) were taken as seriously as patients who present to the medical profession for other pain-related reasons.
