Daily Check-In

[mecurtin]

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time on Monday) now to midnight UT (8pm Tuesday Eastern Time).

Poll #24065 Daily check-in poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 67

How are you doing?

I am OK
58 (86.6%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
9 (13.4%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
27 (40.9%)

One other person
22 (33.3%)

More than one other person
17 (25.8%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

Comments

[twistedchick]

I went to the further clinic for my two-monthly infusion treatment -- basically, sit in a comfy chair and get an IV in the arm for 3 hours. I've been doing this for more than a year; it controls colitis for me. And I expected there'd be some changes (masks on everyone) but I didn't expect processing lines as I entered, one for staff and one for patients, or specified elevators for certain floors only, or, once I was there and checked in, an entirely different process of taking vitals and more questions (the third time, and then more when I was in the chair) and going into the place from a different direction. So I was a bit disoriented and turned around. It didn't help that the SU couldn't be with me; he dropped me off, waited in the parking lot till I texted him that I was in and ok, and then drove back to pick me up. I had my Kindle, and bounced in and out of half a dozen books, but couldn't settle. It was as if I wasn't quite in my life, but in a liminal space between my own life and someone else's, and I didn't know whose that could be.

[we_are_spc]

About the same, really.

I mean, I'm pretty sure this is the darkness before the dawn, right? But it's still...I'm tired of wondering if I'll have enough money to pull through. Just when I think I might something makes me stretch to the limit again.

I'm not sure how much more of that I can take before I snap lik a rubberand...and not necessarily in a good way.

...

But there is "Rosemary and Rue" and there is the 'newsflessh' series...and I want #2 in the "October Day" series...and beyond, and I want to....

Like Toby's story was the first book I *actually* finished in a long time, and I mean...I've been reading the Sword of Truth series, but I lost interest because depression at the beginning of quarantine...and haven't gotten back to it yet, though I want to.

But dammit, I want that stupid check so I don't have to worry about only having $7 left after my home warrante charge goes through, and I can't...get...past that.

-T~

[fred_mouse]

Taking the opportunity to whinge, because every where else there are family

I'm so tired. It's Tuesday, I have three more days of work, and I never ever want to get out of bed again. I *know* that this puts me at risk of being at the beginning of a depressive episode, and as we are heading in to winter, I know that is a higher than average risk for me, but I can't muster the energy to care.

.. hopefully now that I've written it down, I can stop obsessing over the 'is it' aspect and start on the 'do something' aspect of the cycle.

[mecurtin]

My middle back has arbitrarily decided to ache, a LOT. I could go to the chiropractor, but every errand is such a stress. And their office says wearing a mask in the waiting room is up to me, ARRGH.