Gatorubet
Loathing All Things Georgia
May your day be filled with joy, friends, birthday cake, and Victory over the Evil Minions of Ad Monkey!
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May your day be filled with joy, friends, birthday cake, and Victory over the Evil Minions of Ad Monkey!
CentralMOBuck
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Happy B-Day Clarity! Thanks for everything you do to keep this kick ass site going.
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Thanks to everyone, and 'haburdey' to my fellow 9/26ers.
Six or so years ago I made a comment (somewhere here on BP) that I didn't expect to see my 40th birthday. That wasn't even really a bold statement -- I was undiagnosed and getting worse by the day, could rarely sit up in bed (and never got out of it), breathing distress was constant and dangerous, I was living with an enormous amount of pain, had no insurance, no income, losing my home was an inevitability, I had recently lost my first dog (a much bigger deal for me than it probably sounds), Jo had recently lost her mother, and there seemed to be no relief to any of it on the horizon. Long sentence, deep darkness.
BPers helped me retreat to Ohio, get settled back into Columbus, and helped us carry forward to the point where I was able to get health and dental care again, got approved for SSA disability (after so many years of just spinning wheels in the system), get diagnosed, get at least comfort-focused treatments, and more recently have the VA partially (still working on fully) recognize and treat my issues as service-related. While I'm still very limited, I move about the house, sometimes leave briefly for more than doctors/dentists appointments (I recently saw the inside of a grocery store for the first time in over a decade -- the self-checkout stuff confuses and frightens me -- yes, I'm basically Brooks Hatlen now), and in general have a pretty solid quality of life. Six plus years ago, I just had no reason or even opportunity to believe that we'd be able to climb our way back out of the hole -- nor would we have without the interest, concern, and kindness of members of this community. While we're not yet back to where we need to be and life remains a struggle (for a lot of people these days), it's a good struggle to have. So thanks all around, and I extend the happy birthday well wishes I'm getting today back to everyone here who helped me see this one.
Here's to more going forward for everyone who reads this (and for a lot of people who won't).
Six or so years ago I made a comment (somewhere here on BP) that I didn't expect to see my 40th birthday. That wasn't even really a bold statement -- I was undiagnosed and getting worse by the day, could rarely sit up in bed (and never got out of it), breathing distress was constant and dangerous, I was living with an enormous amount of pain, had no insurance, no income, losing my home was an inevitability, I had recently lost my first dog (a much bigger deal for me than it probably sounds), Jo had recently lost her mother, and there seemed to be no relief to any of it on the horizon. Long sentence, deep darkness.
BPers helped me retreat to Ohio, get settled back into Columbus, and helped us carry forward to the point where I was able to get health and dental care again, got approved for SSA disability (after so many years of just spinning wheels in the system), get diagnosed, get at least comfort-focused treatments, and more recently have the VA partially (still working on fully) recognize and treat my issues as service-related. While I'm still very limited, I move about the house, sometimes leave briefly for more than doctors/dentists appointments (I recently saw the inside of a grocery store for the first time in over a decade -- the self-checkout stuff confuses and frightens me -- yes, I'm basically Brooks Hatlen now), and in general have a pretty solid quality of life. Six plus years ago, I just had no reason or even opportunity to believe that we'd be able to climb our way back out of the hole -- nor would we have without the interest, concern, and kindness of members of this community. While we're not yet back to where we need to be and life remains a struggle (for a lot of people these days), it's a good struggle to have. So thanks all around, and I extend the happy birthday well wishes I'm getting today back to everyone here who helped me see this one.
Here's to more going forward for everyone who reads this (and for a lot of people who won't).
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muffler dragon
Bien. Bien chiludo.
If I may ask, Clarity, what has occurred in your health care that's allowed you to improve? Glad to read it btw!!!
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