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Jan. 6th, 2020 04:45 pmThere are a few things that I have partly done that could serve as treats for fests/exchanges with impending deadlines, but I don't know if I will manage to finish any of them. I might be better off working on my Past Imperfect assignment which is due in about three weeks. I don't have a firm idea of what I'll be writing for that, but I matched on something that ought to be straightforward for me.
I signed up for Chocolate Box. I may regret that because I'm not sure what my resources are going to be for it.
I'm going to order several things that I'm hoping will be functional aids-- a carpenter's belt for the many, many small things that I need to tote around the house with me, some headbands to maybe keep my hair out of my eyes (if I can't find something for that, I'll need my hair much shorter), and a reading light that I think I can make work for light on the pages of a book without light in my eyes.
My main hesitation over ordering the lot is that we've discovered that the pertussis testing I had done in October is not covered by insurance and cost $300. The clinician who asked if I was willing to be tested didn't mention the cost and didn't indicate that it was a test that might not be covered or that might need pre-approval. There was a pretty fair chance that I did have it, given the intersection of the prednisone, the pediatrician appointment, and the number of diagnosed cases in the community.
Given that she couldn't give me antibiotics (I'm allergic to the ones she was authorized to prescribe), testing was indicated if only so that I'd know whether or not I had to keep quarantining myself, but I might have been better off staying isolated for a few weeks rather than paying $300. I did stay isolated up until the results came back.
I'm not sure we've got any recourse now, though.
Cordelia's back at school as of today. We took the tree down yesterday. I removed the ornaments and the lights while Scott and Cordelia did the grocery shopping; Scott dealt with putting away the tree after that. I put aside a bunch of single color glass bulbs that we never use and some single color plastic bulbs that we occasionally do but would rather replace with more interesting things. Those filled a paper bag.
I'm not sure what we'll do with them. The glass bulbs are things Scott remembers from childhood, but they're also kind of dull. I don't think anyone in the extended family is going to want them. Some places around here will accept that sort of thing donated in November/early December, but nobody will take them right now. Will we remember in November? Very likely not but anything's possible.
I've got a lot more books that I intend to get rid of. The mass market paperbacks can just go to the Friends of the Library. Other books, Cordelia's school library might want, but I'm not clear what their needs are. Some books might be worth selling, but we don't have a good way to do that. I have a lot of collections of fairy tales.
I've heard nothing at all on my LTD case. I'm hoping that things will start moving this month, but I'm not relying on it. My impression is that there's not much I can do right now.
I signed up for Chocolate Box. I may regret that because I'm not sure what my resources are going to be for it.
I'm going to order several things that I'm hoping will be functional aids-- a carpenter's belt for the many, many small things that I need to tote around the house with me, some headbands to maybe keep my hair out of my eyes (if I can't find something for that, I'll need my hair much shorter), and a reading light that I think I can make work for light on the pages of a book without light in my eyes.
My main hesitation over ordering the lot is that we've discovered that the pertussis testing I had done in October is not covered by insurance and cost $300. The clinician who asked if I was willing to be tested didn't mention the cost and didn't indicate that it was a test that might not be covered or that might need pre-approval. There was a pretty fair chance that I did have it, given the intersection of the prednisone, the pediatrician appointment, and the number of diagnosed cases in the community.
Given that she couldn't give me antibiotics (I'm allergic to the ones she was authorized to prescribe), testing was indicated if only so that I'd know whether or not I had to keep quarantining myself, but I might have been better off staying isolated for a few weeks rather than paying $300. I did stay isolated up until the results came back.
I'm not sure we've got any recourse now, though.
Cordelia's back at school as of today. We took the tree down yesterday. I removed the ornaments and the lights while Scott and Cordelia did the grocery shopping; Scott dealt with putting away the tree after that. I put aside a bunch of single color glass bulbs that we never use and some single color plastic bulbs that we occasionally do but would rather replace with more interesting things. Those filled a paper bag.
I'm not sure what we'll do with them. The glass bulbs are things Scott remembers from childhood, but they're also kind of dull. I don't think anyone in the extended family is going to want them. Some places around here will accept that sort of thing donated in November/early December, but nobody will take them right now. Will we remember in November? Very likely not but anything's possible.
I've got a lot more books that I intend to get rid of. The mass market paperbacks can just go to the Friends of the Library. Other books, Cordelia's school library might want, but I'm not clear what their needs are. Some books might be worth selling, but we don't have a good way to do that. I have a lot of collections of fairy tales.
I've heard nothing at all on my LTD case. I'm hoping that things will start moving this month, but I'm not relying on it. My impression is that there's not much I can do right now.
