on this wednesday
Aug. 25th, 2021 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee341. I received my contributor copy of the McFarland book. My name looks so pretty in the table of contents. LOL I am excited to read the other essays.
2. I saw my neuro yesterday, and I feel pretty good about things. He prescribed a new migraine rescue drug, Nurtec, which costs me zero dollars (with insurance) instead of 900 dollars like that other drug he prescribed last month. We both agreed that what minimal benefit I might be seeing from the monafidil is not worth the expense of monthly visits, so I'm going to stop taking that. He prescribed an arthritis drug to help me with the joint pain I've been experiencing with this flare up; insurance is doing the whole preauth song and dance about it, so I don't have it yet, but hopefully I'll start taking it soon and see some relief.
3. I am still in the middle of the worst flare up I've had since 2020. I haven't really been posting about it because there's only so much still feel like crap I can post before it gets old for all of us, but I am probably going to post about it soon because it's been 25 days now. This is the longest sustained flare up I've ever had.
4. As of today, Emma has a rheumatology appointment for December, and they didn't give me any guff about making the appointment for her (I was kind worried they'd refuse to deal with me since she's not a minor anymore). Hurray!
5. I do not know what the magic is, but my classes are going really well this semester. I just did a short, fun writing exercise based on a picture book called The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. A family friend had given it to Emma ages ago, and she passed it to Fiona. Fiona loves it; she reads it and makes up stories about the pictures. Well, turns out it has a cult following in creative writing workshops as a story prompt generator (my baby, so genius!). I put up one of the images from the book and had them do some group writing based on what they think is happening in the picture; they're going to share their stories next week. Lots of laughing, so I'm looking forward to what they came up with.
2. I saw my neuro yesterday, and I feel pretty good about things. He prescribed a new migraine rescue drug, Nurtec, which costs me zero dollars (with insurance) instead of 900 dollars like that other drug he prescribed last month. We both agreed that what minimal benefit I might be seeing from the monafidil is not worth the expense of monthly visits, so I'm going to stop taking that. He prescribed an arthritis drug to help me with the joint pain I've been experiencing with this flare up; insurance is doing the whole preauth song and dance about it, so I don't have it yet, but hopefully I'll start taking it soon and see some relief.
3. I am still in the middle of the worst flare up I've had since 2020. I haven't really been posting about it because there's only so much still feel like crap I can post before it gets old for all of us, but I am probably going to post about it soon because it's been 25 days now. This is the longest sustained flare up I've ever had.
4. As of today, Emma has a rheumatology appointment for December, and they didn't give me any guff about making the appointment for her (I was kind worried they'd refuse to deal with me since she's not a minor anymore). Hurray!
5. I do not know what the magic is, but my classes are going really well this semester. I just did a short, fun writing exercise based on a picture book called The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. A family friend had given it to Emma ages ago, and she passed it to Fiona. Fiona loves it; she reads it and makes up stories about the pictures. Well, turns out it has a cult following in creative writing workshops as a story prompt generator (my baby, so genius!). I put up one of the images from the book and had them do some group writing based on what they think is happening in the picture; they're going to share their stories next week. Lots of laughing, so I'm looking forward to what they came up with.
