Sage's Journal

[Armee]

 

On top of everything else,
holidays are rough when you miss someone.

[Hope67]

  to you Sage.

[CactusFlower]

Thank you and gentle hugs back to all.

The new provider went well, I like her and the small office she's in. It has a good feel. She listens, yet is good at setting out things to do. I went and got labs done as a baseline, and I go back in a month. Heck, I was just stunned they HAD an appointment in a month. So I switched to her as my primary on my insurance.

No Therapy this week or next due to holidays, but we'll be discussing going to every other week after the next session anyway. That was where I left off with my previous therapist, so I'm okay with that. Oh, and funny thing, the previous therapist's counseling group is apparently in the same complex as my new doc, so I took that as a sign it was meant to be, LOL.  It's also a block from my bro's doc, so he knew how to find it easily. It's about an 8-minute drive from the house.

I splurged and bought a Kobo e-reader and it's working out great! I read for 2 hours while we were at the laundromat last week, and I finished a large book already. it just hurts to hold physical books for too long anymore, but this helps. Bro helped me justify spending it. He explained it's an accommodation, an accessibility device so I can keep reading, just like glasses. Very very happy with the purchase.

[Chart]

 

[sanmagic7]

i love that justification, CF.  perfect!  enjoy, enjoy.  i've lately gotten back to the library and reading, and enjoying it tremendously!  love and hugs

[CactusFlower]

Wow. I don't celebrate Christmas, but of all days for this to happen. I was in a great mood, we're gonna have Chinese food with the BFF in an hour or two here... And someone online said ebooks aren't real books and bookworms know that. I replied that ebooks are real books for disabled people who find it hard to hold physical books. AND SHE REPLIED!  She came back telling me to pullout my "handicapped card" so I can play that again, and she's "not interested in that BS".  What a horrible excuse for a human being. I just don't understand how some people can live with such hatred festering in them 24/7. May she have the holidays and life she deserves.

[Armee]

Indeed. And a "real bookworm" is someone who is joyful when someone finds a way to read...whether that is ebook, audio book, graphic novels, etc. That's all her and her (serious) issues. Enjoy a nice good ebook today.

[Chart]

It is so infinitely easier to exist in the judgment of others than to face the horrors of ourselves.

[sanmagic7]

horrible person, indeed, CF.  *?  how miserable must her life be?  too bad, really.  i'm so glad you've found a way to enjoy the written word.  i'm on my way to the library in an hour, see if i can't find some Austen or Bronte.  i just don't get the need to be judgmental like that.

love and hugs, no judgments attached!

[CactusFlower]

Thank you all, gentle hugs back. Totally letting it go, and BFF and I discussed the book challenge we're doing this coming year. I've even already chosen and loaded my titles. I also spent the afternoon today knocking out another 23% of the second Mistborn novel, so that was just lovely. I'd forgotten how much I love a good fantasy novel and can get lost in time reading.

[sanmagic7]

so cool, CF.  i'm with you on getting lost in time while reading.  it's the best! i've begun again Mary Stweart's Arthur saga.  read it so very long ago, loving it even more this time around. love and hugs

[CactusFlower]

Ugh. Doc just called. A1C is high, I got the diabeetus. (If you're not in the USA, that spelling is making fun of an old commercial starring Wilford Brimley.) We'll start a common tablet twice a day and discuss further when I go back in 2 weeks, along with "other results". Which, I'm betting, is the cholesterol. I saw it coming, but yuck. There goes a lot of things I like. It never hurts to cut down sugar, but anything's better than potentially dealing with needles.  Let's see if I can affect it enough, it wasn't crazy high. I hate taking pills, but I simply cannot do needles. Not on myself. This sucks.

[Armee]

 

[sanmagic7]

it does suck, CF.  very sorry that's happened to you.  hopefully you'll be able to control it thru diet.  a new year begins, right?  keep taking care as best you can.  love and hugs

[Blueberry]

I'm sorry CF. Thinking of you and hoping you can control with diet. I imagine I'm going to get diabetes one of these days too.

but I simply cannot do needles. Not on myself. This sucks.

I simply cannot do them either, not on myself, not on anyone else. I once had to do them for 5 days against thrombosis and it took me about 30 mins to psyche myself up for them each day. The next time I was meant to take them against thrombosis I said    no-can-do, trauma, and was given pills instead.