First of all, I can’t believe that my life is like this now, but it is! Let me ‘Splain ya what I mean and why I feel so accomplished today!:
I have been meaning to write about this from an article I read a few weeks ago now about people with chronic illnesses who wake up and have the same exact day from the day before. That is me right now. I’ll write about that soon hopefully…
But, back to why I feel accomplished!:
My Mom got me out of bed this morning (and it was actually morning! It was like 10 o’clock) and I thought about what I needed to do today. I know I had to make a few phone calls.
After I drank my nutrition shake, I decided to call Dr. Bansal. I called the ophthalmology department at Henry Ford and asked to speak to someone about making an appointment. As it turns out, we just leave a message for her assistant, Tamika. I decided to leave my phone number because my Mom was going to lunch with my aunts today.
The next thing I did was message my dermatologist. I had written about the fact that it is so cold outside and the fact that it is so warm in my house. Makes the air in my house really dry! Dr. Harris told me about that one he gave me the new contacts I wear now.
I messaged her because my skin is so sensitive now, 25 years into this b*tch, (I didn’t say that, but I thought it) I explained that my Mom coats my face with Neosporin. She puts it on my cheeks, under my nose, and makes sure to get my septum a whole lot! I asked her if I should be applying something different.
She should message me back in a few days. After I thought about that, I called Dr. Bansal’s office back. It takes a couple days for them to call back and I decided to tell Chris, who I spoke to, that I should leave my Mom’s phone number instead of mine because I’m not really awake during the morning hours at all but I can’t really handle that either.
Do, he took that all down and that felt good that I called two different doctors today. My dermatologist will message me on MyChart and Tamika should call my Mom tomorrow or Monday. That phone call is for an appointment that you need to make for May 27. I have to call in February. As I was waiting, it asked if this was a single annual appointment. In fact, it is!
It was already 4 o’clock, and I had finished praying, but then that got me thinking that I checked MyChart and it says I owe more money than my payment plan agreement. It just was charging for one appointment, but I had two this month. I saw the podiatrist and then I virtually saw the pain clinic doctor. Both of those are specialties.
it was super easy to adjust my payment plan. I spoke to Janice today and she updated in my plan so I will owe money until January 2027 at this point. It was really nice exchanging nice cities with her about staying warm in this cold. That was the first person I talk to in the day.
There is another specialty doctor that’s going to bill me for this month and then next month I have an appointment with my Urologist.
I felt really accomplished today even though I haven’t done anything. I really can’t believe my life is like this now but I’m handling it so I guess I feel pretty accomplished!