still here...

It's been an eventful couple of weeks, and I am doing okay. I have been emotional about all the medical issues and all this hate I see spewed out in my world. Job-wise, I was "hired" on Friday last week in Columbus, Ohio. On Monday, they called me. The woman I was replacing, who was pregnant and giving up the job to dedicate herself to the baby, miscarried. So she wants to come back to work. While I am disappointed, this is something that I can understand. I feel so sorry for the woman who miscarried.

Other than that, life has been interesting. A little jinxed. I waited for 5 months for my "expedited" Medicaid hearing on August 23rd. The building blew a transformer!!! I was the only member of the "public" allowed to stay. We still had phones, but we could only call out. We were able to get the judge in Lansing on the phone, and then he connected two other people in Lansing onto the phone line. He swore all of us in, and started to read my complaint. We lost the phone! I guess there was a real funny moment realizing, "Houston (aka Lansing), I think we lost Benton Harbor". Luckily my hearing is rescheduled quickly for September 22nd.

Healthwise, I have slowly been going down hill. My carbon dioxide level jumped 9% in one month, which signals there is a problem with my sleep apnea. I don't have carbon dioxide poisioning yet, but if I continue to decline, I might. I am now going to the University of Michigan to do a bunch of new tests. Still no oximeter! It didn't make it through Medicaid prior authorization in August. So I had to have all these people do things so that it could go through prior authorization in September. Luckily, all six people, did everything they needed to, and so it is already submitted to Medicaid for this month. It's all a game that the government is playing. It is rationing care for me not to have this oximeter for 7 months, when it is something that can save my life. Our medical system is so screwed up.

Anyways, that's the news. No interviews pending. I go back to sub teaching next week. It's been a long summer!