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  • A sad week

    Friday I found out that Roe/Wade had been over turned by SCOTUS, something that was only disheartening but also very sad. Saturday morning I woke up to a shooting in Oslo, by a terrorist.

    The country I idolised as a child & as a young adult has been wrecked, first by a corrupt & fraudulent president who put the action into place to reverse the basic human rights of women.

    To think I once stood up for that country & now see that I can no longer go back there to live. Too many rights have been reversed & democracy is under threat in a very literal sense.

    The country is holding by a thread & it’s very close to breaking. It frightens me immensely that an arm of the government would act so corrupt & so belligerently towards its own people. That frightens me most.

    By taking basic human rights away from women it’s turning into the handmaid’s tale in a very disturbing way. I will not be celebrating the 4th of July this year as there’s no reason to celebrate. First January 6th & then this, it makes me ill to think about a place I once idolised.

  • Alive & kickin’

    Well, I finally home after one of the worst “vacations” in recent memory. Not only did we catch the dreaded breakthrough COVID but we saw the true colors of our friends. We got Lucky & caught it on a plane between 2 cities.

    Something I regret not wearing a mask on the plane, we should’ve & we probably would have been fine. But we where “risky” & didn’t wear one. We paid the price 4 days later when I came down with symptoms.

    Screeching in our ears about certain things where icing on the cake. We decided to drive between cities something that was very pleasant. But due to idle threats we had to black out FB for a week. But I can assure you we got Home & have no plans to travel for a very long time.

    We’re alive & kickin’ thanks to vaccines & being careful on the trip back. It’s truly good to be home!!

  • When your doctor fails

    I’ve had my share of bad GPs but this last one takes the cake. I am applying for grad school in the Fall & am looking for work. I send out a CV a week with a cover letter. I write every day I can in my journals.

    My highly unprofessional GP sent me a flame message on the health network website telling me in no uncertain terms that I should apply for disability. Something I don’t qualify for because I am active & have worked recently.

    I may have a mild mental illness but I have not been hospitalised for the last decade. I found her message unprofessional & rude. I get up between 730-8am every day & sleeping “in” on the weekends means sleeping till 9am.

    I’m disgusted by her unprofessionalism & her blatant ignorance of me as an entire person not an illness that barely effects me. She wanted to shed me as a patient & if I get disability I become a ward of the state & would have a state doctor.

    She should have been professional & simply told me she no longer wanted me as a patient. Something she simply didn’t do. Now, I have spoken to my friends & to other professionals & when I come back from my trip I will be making some decisions.