Just One Thing! (19 September 2016)
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awesomeersIt's challenge time!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!
Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
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Date: 2016-09-19 09:23 pm (UTC)Communicated.
Went to bed early.
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Date: 2016-09-20 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2016-09-20 01:15 am (UTC)I cleaned up the kitchen mess the cats had created on the kitchen floor during the night by knocking cups etc off the bench onto the kitchen floor: lots of cups, spilled water, cutlery, used tea bags etc on the kitchen floor.
Rang up and cancelled a specialist appt I'd decided I didn't need.
Rang up and confirmed that my dental appt was still on for today (I hadn't received the usual confirmation SMS).
Rang up and booked a wheelchair taxi for Wednesday.
Stopped at the Post Office and checked my mail and did banking.
Called my bank and asked to lower my credit card limit from $1500 to $1000.
Skimmed through a superannuation letter that arrived in the mail today and checked I couldn't switch to an investment with a higher rate of return.
Read the leaflets in the dentists waiting room about different insurance options I could take out.
Asserted myself that, no, I wouldn't leave my wheelchair unattended in a corridor, we would have to switch to a dentist room with space for my wheelchair.
Asserted myself that no, I wouldn't take my prescription sunglasses off.
Explained my medical conditions and medications to the Oral Health Therapist.
Asserted myself that I needed numbing injections, not adrenalin-topical-gel.
Tolerated/coped with a very stressful and painful thorough-clean-and-scale.
Asserted myself that rather than have the assistant wipe my face down after the clean with a tissue, I'd rather she gave me the tissue and the hand mirror and I'd do it myself.
Explained to the Oral Health Therapist that brushing 2x a day and flossing 1x day was unrealistic because exhaustion and hand/wrist pain, I would aim for brushing 1x day and if that worked we would build up from there.
Insisted that someone write down the post-appt care instructions on a bit of paper for me, because no, I "wouldn't just remember them."
Discussed the implications of going on an immunosuppressant for my dermatitis while having gum disease with the Oral Health Therapist.
Discussed SLS-free and alcohol-free dental hygiene products with the Oral Health Therapist.
Discussed dental insurance products with the Oral Health Therapist and the dental receptionists.
Asked the attendant at the disabled loo to put the rubbish bin in the toilet on the bench so I could reach it (they usually tuck it waaaaaaaaay under the counter where no one with pain/mobility issues has a hope in hell of reaching it).
Stopped by my physio's office and bought a new lumbar support roll.
Asked the teenage girl immediately behind my powerchair on the train to move out of the way so I could get out. It took A LOT of asking. In the end, after talking, touching her on the arm, and waving my umbrella, I just had to reverse and hope for the best.
Stopped at Post Office to pick up my large parcels.
Stopped at chemist to get prescription meds.
Stopped at takeaway place to get pappadums and order 14 dahl (no chilli, no paprika) for collection tomorrow.
Signed up for a new dental plan, which reduces dental fees by 15% to 40%. (This is separate from private health insurance. You can have it either with or without private health insurance.)
Cancelled several of my automated payments on Paypal.
Gmail chatted to a friend.
Communicated with SO.
Sent a text message to cancel an appt I had scheduled for Thursday.
Emailed some friends about two lots of information that they might find helpful/relevant.
Put some to-do items into my gmail calender.
Emptied out my hand bag.
Put some medical papers in the medical paperwork drawer.
Loaded the dishwasher.
Did some laundry.
Opened a parcel, cut the tags off new towels.
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Date: 2016-09-20 06:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-20 06:21 am (UTC)The disabled toilet having the bin tucked waaaaaaaaay underneath the sink counter makes me really cranky.
The toilet attendants are always scolding me harshly for leaving used tissues on the sink bench rather than putting them in the bin, but I can't reach the bin without
a) aggravating my lower back/hip/knee/neck/shoulder and
b) risking falling
I think from now on I'll try to insist they put the bin on the bench Every. Single. Time.
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Date: 2016-09-20 06:23 am (UTC)People ask you to change into gowns for xrays etc, even though the gowns are ****hopelessly inadequate**** for a fat women (they dig in, cause pain, restrict movement, and flash my boobs and butt.)
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Date: 2016-09-20 06:54 am (UTC)"I don't imagine most people realize that being disabled makes routine, familiar medical stuff really fraught a lot of the time."
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Date: 2016-09-20 02:02 pm (UTC)Got myself to be able to go to a convention in a few weeks.