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

Poll #26981 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 36

How are you doing?

I am okay
24 (66.7%)

I am not okay, but I don't need help right now
12 (33.3%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
12 (34.3%)

One other human
16 (45.7%)

More than one other human
7 (20.0%)

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

[ratcreature]

I accomplished making an eye doctor appointment for next week that is preliminary to the next thing I'm afraid of and hence delayed (after cataract lasering, so not something "objectively" difficult or risky, but I have deep rooted medical trauma and anxiety when it comes to any eye stuff, especially things that you can't elect to be sedated for, like I did for cataract surgery itself, no matter how minor, and unfortunately eye doctors tend to have near zero empathy for that).

So I made the first step. I really hope I can convince them to give me some tranquilizers or such for the actual lasering, but I have failed in the past -- only got one once for something that involved a needle, failed for other laser procedures. I have made notes for my talk for a strategy, i.e. stressing that in the past a different doctor (who refused to give me drugs after I asked and explained my anxiety) actually complained to me that aiming was harder because I was trembling, so
I'm going to stress objective advantages that this will make it easier for the doctor and less just a personal thing. (Please no "advice" to look for better doctors, I have encountered many eye doctors, it's not a "bad apple" kind of situation, and it's not feasible for me to try to find some exceptionally sympathetic unicorn somewhere.)