Beth @ TheAngelForever

Vaccine Information Sheets not on CDC Website (2/1/2025) What does this mean?

Yikes

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Monetized Holocaust denialism on Twitter but how dare anyone suggest that Elon did a sieg heil.

Medicaid didn't go offline because it was too "woke."

School lunch programs weren't put at risk because of immigrants.

Funding for cancer research wasn't on the chopping block because of trans people.

All of this (and more) was jeopardized because of one person: Donald Trump.

I hung up, I was so fucking over it. My mother died this month, I had surgery last week (thyroid hormones are screwing with me), and now this.

My insurance knocked the medicine down to $375 for three months. Then the savings card from the manufacturer made it $75. $75 is a lot more than the $10

I can't stop crying. It's an increase of $65 just for this medication. This is older and has been out a long time and not extremely expensive in the scheme of things. Now what the hell will happen with my son's Xolair? (2/2)

Bingo card for today: Hang up on insurance company after being told not to use a profanity when I slipped and said "Oh great just another way _____ is fucking me over.". (1/2)

January 2025 can suck it.

Mom dies after a horrendous hospital stay.

Partial thyroidectomy on inauguration day, two weeks after my mother's death.

The world is burning up all around us.

Surgery over and totally feel like an elephant stomped on my neck

As a reminder I get the useless 'I told you so' about urosepsis, but what do I know? I mean I just know since rapid response nothing has been even remotely close to baseline. Something neurological happened.

Ever feel like nobody listens and they are going to let your parent die in the hospital?

Honestly so exhausted from three weeks with two different admissions. Mom never opened her eyes today and only screams. But let's not do the MRI to see what really happened. Lovely.

Crochet therapy while sitting in the ICU with Mom.

Hospitals do NOT care about patients. It's all about beds needed and money to make. The system is beyond fucked up, especially elder care.

Listening to mom cry because the asshats at the hospital never cleared the systemic thrush. It was better and they knew it wasn't gone thanks to the pulmonologist. Well now it's back and she's in agony. Can't eat, sugar low, weak as hell. Oh but they cleared a hospital bed. Yay 🤬

Is it acceptable to put myself into a time out on my birthday?

Too many reasons to list, but I don't feel like participating in the 💩 show today

This appeared over night 🫤

I may be a December baby, but I'm over this already.

Update: Whelp it's not on formulary, needs a prior authorization, and who knows what it may cost us IF we can get it through (even with savings card from drug company. I'm so done with the constant battles to get medications doctors prescribe.

Dermatologist office is calling in a topical eczema medication for the kid. His hands are so fried since he's no longer able to be on the biologic for eczema. Now we wait to see why insurance will deny this, because we all know they know best 🙄

Parenting a child with chronic illness is truly heart breaking.

We were running out of my Premier Protein drink that I use in coffee, so I asked @techydad.bsky.social to get me something I used to love. Peppermint mocha used to be my go to, but it's been at least four years since I switched.

Thanks! Most of these were audiobooks. I usually read more on Kindle before going to sleep, but kept closing my eyes when I curled up under the blankets.

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Last: When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman

Now: Deadline, Donuts & Dreidels by Jennifer Wilck

Next: Not sure, several waiting on Hoopla and Libby

November was filled with a lot of stress. Hip injury kept my concentration down so I wasn't able to read as much. Then I've been distracted by my mother being admitted to the hospital.

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What have you read recently?

#Reading #TimeToRead #ReadingTime #books #BookTime

Thankful for the people working at the hospital today where Mom is still staying.

Not thankful for the darn snow.

He's faking it 🩵

Putting an Etsy order together. Just need to put the legs and ears on and done

So gross that the CSS Profile is required and gives more information to a certain company. I wish more private colleges would move away from this.

Can you tell I'm the parent of someone in the Class of 2025?

Let's play a guessing game with Mom's dinner at the hospital.

Good to know! That may help my hip as well. Thank you

This week has been a 💩 show for so many reasons. It's ending with my mother being admitted to the hospital.