Love & the Neurologist Yesterday (Monday the 14th) Love had his follow-up with the neurologist. Turns out the CT scan he had done a few weeks ago was perfectly normal. See, Love has this “whooshing” which kinda pulses in his right ear. Had it for years. But, when the whole vertigo-turned-out-to-be-migraines attacks started a year [...]
Tags: depression, healing, hysterectomy, hysterectomy healing timeline, i am obamacare, Love, medical assistance, medical bills, migraines, neurologist, obamacare, PCIP, post op hysterectomy, post surgery, surgery, tlh, total laparoscopic hysterectomy
And I’ve been featured on the official Obama For America tumblr page! (click for larger) The image of course, is from the entry, I am ObamaCare that I initially posted in October 2011, but went viral in January 2012. Now, with the 2nd anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (or “ACA”), the President is collecting [...]
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I thought I was dealing with last week being the 2nd anniversary of Rand’s death pretty well, until I realized last night as I was getting ready for bed that I’m actually in a bad place. I’m really angry and have no patience right now and everything is overwhelming pissing me off disproportionately to what [...]
Tags: anger, depression, fatigue, frustration, funk, grief, helplessness, in a bad place, Rand, sorrow
Posted by miss m on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 @ 10:02am in
Blog,
Customer Service,
Hysterectomy,
Sickness and Health Issues And…we’re back. Again. Yesterday afternoon, we hit our bandwidth limit for the second time. (Using over 20GB of transfer just for the month of January!!) I didn’t bother emailing support asking for more because it was the last 1/2 day of the month and it would reset overnight for February. Well, this morning, I checked [...]
Tags: bandwidth, giveneyestosee.com, i am obama care, i am obamacare, i am obamacare picture woman, traffic, viral
Posted by miss m on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 @ 11:54am in
Family,
Finances,
General Blather,
Hysterectomy,
Sickness and Health Issues I had to go back and count because I hadn’t been keeping exact track lately but today is 16 weeks since my hysterectomy. That seems like such a long time ago. But in many ways, it’s very recent. I think I’ve finally reached a point where the aches and pains part of the healing are [...]
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I spent most of Friday just in a serious funk. Kept crying because of the damned collection letter. It’s like, why even bother trying to be responsible and pay everyone off if I’m just going to get screwed over and ruin my credit anyway? Everything is stacked against you as the debtor and they make [...]
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Posted by miss m on Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 5:51pm in
Finances,
General Blather,
Hysterectomy,
Sickness and Health Issues So, even though the debt started as $1,200 and it’s down to $930 and I’ve been paying every month, apparently the “fact” that so long as you pay they can’t send you to collections is an urban myth. Every single person I’ve ever talked to both in person and online said just pay it each [...]
Tags: collections, credit, debt, debt collections, depression, finances, financial assistance, fundraiser, fundraising, help pay medical bills, hysterectomy, medical assistance, medical bills, medical fundraiser, post op, post op hysterectomy, ruined credit, tlh, total laparoscopic hysterectomy
Posted by miss m on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 @ 8:11pm in
Finances,
General Blather,
Hysterectomy,
Sickness and Health Issues Yesterday, I shared the Assumptions people make about me based on their preconceived notions and health care expenses. Today, I’m expanding on that topic to Quality of Life. Besides “knowing” all the money I obviously waste on doing my nails, having a fancy new car, buying iPhones, etc. people also have other “helpful” suggestions about [...]
Tags: Affordable Heathcare Act, healthcare reform, hysterectomy, i am obama care, i am obamacare, i am obamacare photo, i am obamacare pic, i am obamacare picture woman, i am the 99%, medical assistance, medical bills, medical fundraiser, obamacare, PCIP, post op, post op hysterectomy, post surgery, quality of life, surgery, tlh, total laparoscopic hysterectomy
Posted by miss m on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 @ 8:20pm in
Finances,
General Blather,
Hysterectomy,
Sickness and Health Issues One of the worst parts of my “I am ObamaCare” images going viral is the asinine assumptions people make. Honestly, it’s just absurd the things people will say. I get some people don’t agree with the Affordable Heathcare Act and while I can’t fathom why anyone thinks our current system is working, it’s their right [...]
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Posted by miss m on Sunday, January 15, 2012 @ 12:22pm in
Family,
General Blather,
Hysterectomy,
Love,
Sickness and Health Issues Been so busy this past week with recovering from my food poisoning/ER trip and Love’s surgery Thursday. The anti-nausea and anti-diarrhea medications they gave me made me dizzy. The anti-nausea one is normally prescribed for people going through chemo! I wasn’t allowed to drive on the meds and I had to take them for 3 [...]
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Both my Garnet “January Tree” and
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So apparently, just after posting the last entry, I went over. I contacted support and they’ve upped me to 15GB this month. We’ll see how it goes. If you got an “over the limit” message, I’m back for now. Let’s see how long this amount of bandwidth holds out! (Currently over 8.5 gig this month [...]
Tags: bandwidth, i am obama care, i am obamacare, i am obamacare photo, i am obamacare picture woman, popular, viral
Posted by miss m on Sunday, January 8, 2012 @ 12:49pm in
Finances,
General Blather,
Hysterectomy,
Love,
Sickness and Health Issues I got more than a little overwhelmed on Friday when the links, emails, mentions, tags and hits just flooded in. It was crazy. So Saturday, Love and I took a day completely off the interwebs. We took a drive over to Orlando, talked, walked around, window shopped, people watched, had a burger, watched some fireworks [...]
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How crazy it is to me that my “I am ObamaCare” image has gone so viral. Especially three months after initially posting it! The other day, it made it’s way onto MoveOn.org and today, it’s on DailyDot.com You can read the article here. I’m amazed and excited to find my simple image is making such [...]
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I haven’t done a post-op entry in awhile and after finding my I am Obamacare image on MoveOn.org (craziness!) I realized I should do an update again. A lot of people find my blog based on search terms about hysterectomies or being post-op and such so I feel it’s important to share so others going [...]
Tags: 12 weeks post op, 13 weeks post op, 3 months post op, depression, finances, healing, hysterectomy, hysterectomy healing timeline, post op, post op hysterectomy, post surgery, sick, surgery, tlh, total laparoscopic hysterectomy, what does hysterectomy scar look like, what does laparoscopic incisions look like, what does total laparoscopic hysterectomy look like
