Update

[hummingwolf]

Wow. I'm feeling really amazingly stupid at the moment. Did manage to get to the doctor's appointment, but had to get myself lost along the way. When I found a church where they were willing to let me in to use the pay phone and got hold of the doctor's office, the woman on the other end of the line gave me directions slowly, deliberately, and repeatedly as if I were a particularly stupid child, which is precisely how I felt so I suppose it was fitting.

Not sure if the appointment went as it should or not. It did disturb me that the office was dustier than the house where I live. I live with grad students--a doctor's office should be cleaner than this, shouldn't it? He didn't know anything about fibromyalgia either, so he asked me some questions then thwacked me on various parts of the body asking, "Does that hurt? Does it hurt there? So it hurts all over?" Well, yeah it does when you thwack me like that. Thanks.

Before the disability determination folks made today's appointment for me, I'd made an appointment for tomorrow with one of the job-hunt-related people. Since I still have no medication or supplements, today's appointment (and all the walking around I did while pathetically lost) wiped me out & there's no way anything useful can be done tomrrow, that appointment is now canceled. Drat. Not sure when I can get supplements considering the little bit-o'-cash my sis-in-law sent has mostly gone to pay utility bills. It'd be nice to be able to do something on more than one day a week again. I think most jobs require more than 4 hours per week of work, so if I want one of those, something will need to be done soon.

So there's all the update I can muster at the moment. Going to crash in bed now.

Have a good day, everyone!

Comments

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

i'd like to thwack that doctor. what a bonehead. hope the appointment does some good, red-tape wise, and you feel better after resting.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's terribly reassuring that this appointment--which the woman from the disability determination office stressed was very important for me to go to--was with someone who seemed so very clueless. Almost as reassuring as finding out that in a conversation with the dep't of social services today, my landlord got into a discussion about whether or not he should evict me. (I don't think he will--he seemed to wonder if evicting me would get me money faster & was trying to be helpful--but I'm still a bit freaked out here.)

Feeling a little better after resting. Still wondering when/if/how I'll get through this month, though.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

how alarming! please keep me posted on the landlord situation. i hope that's all he meant. eeeek. i'm sorry this is all so hard on you. and the people seem so incompetent. :(

[skygypsy.livejournal.com]

the doc didn't know what fibromyalgia was? at ALL?!

dumbfuck.

same for those benefit peoples.

freeking fucktards!!!!

*GRRRRRR*

and many *huggles* for youuuu

when do you get The Final Word?

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I think he might have heard that fibromyalgia is somehow related to pain. Other than that, he was mostly writing down what I was telling him--which might be a good thing, or it might be bad since I really was too out of it to think of much to say.

No idea when I get a final word on anything. I should be making phone calls to social services since *they* were supposed to decide on something a while back, but I'm very tired after the last couple days of going out & trying to do things. At least I got a little bit of Ritalin & MSM yesterday (though they overcharged me for the Ritalin but won't believe it if I tell them I didn't get the right amount because it's a controlled substance and they're supposed to assume that anyone wanting more is a druggie... argh). Hopefully my body reserves will be built up enough soon for me to do useful things without feeling like I've been stomped under somebody's boot and then run over by a truck all day.