Getting Ready to Fight a Lawyer....

When I first got home from the hospital, I started trying to apply for SSDI. This turns out to be a moot point, because although one would expect that the papers one would wish to fill out to be on the SSDI site, THEY DON'T EXIST.

What one DOES find oneself doing is a "can you qualify for SSDI" - which, strangely, appears to be TAKEN OFF the internet for the Law Office of Robert J. Levine.

This law office is BOGUS! If one accepts their "you qualify" phone call and one lets them "get started", they'll ask for 25% of Social Security (which the Social Security Office itself claims there IS no "lawyer fee" taken out each week), they'll tell Social Security that you DON'T have any form of short term disability (which I WAS getting through Cigna right up until THIS WEEK), and basically SCREW you in order to MAKE that 25% fee THAT THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO!

In other words, I may be taking this to Joe Bornstein to have these idiots dis-barred in the State of Maine.

GRRRRRR!

It's NOT enough to have something the size of a baseball taken out of my head.

It's NOT enough to be hindered in my job because all the things that I went on vacation able to do.

It's NOT enough to be unable to work, not because I don't WANT to work, but I am unable to so those things that I really NEED to do.....

No! THAT isn't enough.

I have to have some DIPSTICK lawyers office INSIST that they "represent" me for this - WHICH THEY DIDN'T DO A THING FOR SHORT OF INSIST THAT I HAD ALREADY GIVEN NOTICE (I'm working on my "letter of resignation" as we speak), and wants 25% of the money that I ALREADY PAID IN!

So, if you've come across "Do you qualify" information and have gotten any notice from Robert J. Levine, TURN THEM IN TO YOUR LOCAL SSDI OFFICE! They INSIST that there's a "lawyers fee" that Social Security DOES NOT TAKE.

Go DIRECTLY to the Social Security office or CALL THEM DIRECTLY to get the PROPER forms.

DO NOT DO ANYTHING WITH ROBERT J. LEVINE!

Now, if you will excuse me, I have to find the Law Offices of Joe Bornstein and see if these people can be disbarred in Maine.......

What day is it today?

The result of increased Temodor, which imitates a migraine, making one vomit intermittently (but never a pill) was, for one as accustomed to migraines as I, simply bad time for a migraine. I took my pills, tried my best to combat the one day (or, in this case, two days) that I seemed not able to keep down the meal for an hour (just enough to suction all moisture out).

Bad combination when on this drug.

So, after my husband being kind enough to check with the nurses (while I slept after my first pill of the day), drive me to an appointment, stay with me through it all, pick out a tree at our favorite farm stand, get my perscription, and settle me back in (with an EXTREME rash because my body was just starting to react to the extreme medications when we first got to the hospital), and let me get proper sleep, he TRULY deserves added vacations because of me!

Wanna see what "too much medication" does? (No monkey business, guys, as this is a fashionable length for my loosest nightie here.)

*le sigh*

Funny thing is that I can't, for the life of me, get this to come out in a mirror image or a selfie. (In other words, I can see this on my body, but when I look in the mirror, I look normal.....and the camera/phone doesn't see this in the mirror......weird......)

Another thing is it's already 13 days until I've got to have packages wrapped for the grandkids to open. Thank goodness Grampa has one day this weekend for us to do it all - or as much as he can do with me. Hopefully, in another day or two when I get the itchies under control, I can take a quick shopping for Grampa and get something for him that I know he'll like. (I think other things, like taking care of the weeds in the garden he's wanting to put in, will be part and parcel since I can't seem to go a whole day able to speak, so no job for me.)

Something tells me this is going to be a "gift certificate" year....

Blessed be, my lovelies, and may you NOT be shocked by anything after the "knee photo" above.

I'm Dreaming of a Bare Headed Christmas

December 1st was visit two to the Chemotherapy Team. I had recently re-read all of the "symptoms" I should be watching for....and wouldn't you know, the Temodar causes "hair loss".

*le sigh*

And here I thought I would be done with the post-radiation sort-of mohawk soon...

Now comes the next big decision: To let my sweetie give me another "buzz cut" to try to get the "peach fuzz" to grow in, or to go through Christmas with the slowly growing/somewhat screwy semblance to a mohawk?

But folks, that's not all!

Bill was informed when he went to the Cancer Center that the Temodar I was going to need would be AT the Cancer Center for the visit. The doctor increased the dosage (which is, we understand, typical for Chemo Two visits), we went to the pharmacy...and now I'm hoping for a Fedex package before Monday, when I'm supposed to start TAKING the Temodar....

*another sigh*

At this rate, I'm going to have to get a job at the Cancer Center so that the meds get ordered on time!