I received an email from my health care provider asking me to go follow a link and fill out some info so they could better serve me and update their electronic records. I followed the link, provided info to prove it was me not someone fraudulently faking being me ( no one would want to be me I am thinking). The email made it sound like maybe they would collect some useful medical info or something along those lines. What is going to help them serve me better? Well – — enter birthdate – maybe they need to verify this since they have had it since the 80’s, sex – well ok they have choices for transgendered on there now I but alas I am still female so no great help for them there, knowing what ethnic nationality (race/color/what-evers same as when I was a doc the last time) and how many years of schooling I have. End of survey. I did not click send. For some reason it really irritated me.
I tried to get a DMV appointment to renew my lic. I got an automatic renewal deal all I had to do was mail it in but they say that they are 4-6 weeks + behind so it would not get the new one till after the old expired. Oh yeah you can not go in and do this prior to receiving the renewal notice. No appointments till after it expires available so what the heck at least if I do it online I have reciept that shows I did it right? Well I filled out the form to register to use the site – answered all the secret questions etc. got the verify this your email email, logged in to the site.
I entered all my credit card junk and then I kept looking for the place to enter the code the renewal notice said I had to enter or my application would not be renewed – so I looked and looked and looked- I never did find anywhere to enter it so finally I just followed instructions clicked done and then used this link the provided to print ( a cute little printer picture) and I got garbage-gibberish-maybe greek? I tried again no joy, different printers – no joy, I used the print screen on the keyboard and saved a snap of the page. Tried printing again still rubbish – then the site said I was timed out. 🙁 I guess I am going to go and wait hours (no appointment) and see if I can get a temporary before mine expires. I am thinking proof I did this is a computer generated piece of paper that looks like it was printed in a foreign language. The site said be sure to print it for records and proof . …
I am more irritated.
No P.E. for our class tomorrow because the teach has another meeting they district is making her attend. Now the good folks in gov’t and the college have really gotten strict about student attendance – kind of hard on a class full of peeps with a variety of medical conditions – especially since the classes are now at max capacity so the teacher has less time for individuals. Oh the point they have no problem with canceling the class so we the students get less for our money.
One student who is blind and diabetic was afraid if he missed another class he would be automatically dropped got himself on the bus injured after a fall (more on this to follow) and fell again hurting himself more. He was helped to the class by a nice young student. We got him inside somehow and into a chair. This man was in serious pain! How to get him home?
Well back tracking. His aide is no longer allowed per company policy to give any clients a lift in their private vehicle etc. The aides and teacher at school are no longer allowed to assist with this either. Heck they can not even let us use pulse monitors at the start of class anymore as the district decided this amounted to the teacher acting as a nurse – we are not even allowed to use our own monitors to do this in class anymore – go figure.
This man was told by his part time in home care taker that if he had to call 911 again ( the police called them when he fell the first time) or got dropped from class because of his fall they were going to call is parents and they would ship him to a group home or back to Texas to live with them ( take my word here not good thing). I will not voice my opinion of his care taker but . … any ways how to get him home?
He could not get up into my truck so another gal with MS and I worked it out best we could. She drove him home and I would get him to his apartment. I good idea that went bad. He lived on the second floor and there were 18 – yes I counted them – cement steps up. Well he was in pain and wobbly unable to but full weight on one leg … he was in panic afraid if he did not get home he would be shipped off – and he would have been so we went for it against my and my friends judgment he started up the stairs. I just knew that it was headed south – he would more than likely fall – so I got behind him and held on to each guard rail – one on the right the other left (duh) and stood behind him. Sure enough eighth step and he fell backwards. I tensed my arms and pushed forward with all my might held on and just about the time a thought I was gonna go down backwards with him(all 235 pounds) I got him forward and safely sitting on a step. Thank who ever that we did not leave him as he wanted us to and I stood behind him.
yes dumb but they guy was going up no matter what. I can not imagine being so afraid/alone? that I would endure the pain and over come my fear and head up those stairs. I got him doing what I call the butt scoot boogie up the stairs. His arms gave out at step 12. I held him while well while he cried and rested. He wanted us to go so – to leave him there on step 12. 45 mins later we made it into his apartment where at his wish I left him laying exhausted on his living room floor. I made sure the phone was next to him and he had a bottle of water. He said he needed to rest. I felt so had just leaving him there but . …
What kind of society do we live in when a blind guy falls and if he calls for help he ends up in a care home or in Texas out in the boonies where there are not buses, no handicapped van services and no internet? He manages very well when not injured. Where the only peeps that helped him both had MS and quite honestly I know one of them has really sore shoulders and back now and the other is still trying to thaw out as it was really cold out. WTF. He just got approval for a downstairs apartment from hud or whoever handles such things after being on the waiting list for over a year.
Maybe I will go back to the health carrier site and tell em I never graduated elementary school and I don’t know what race I am? Think they will be better able to serve me? I do get that some conditions etc are more prevalent in some ethnic groups than others and perhaps a college graduate might understand some bigger words and or instructions better than some one who never learned to read but??? If I say no high school diploma will they dumb down or treat me different if I fess up to my education will they assume something different? Why not just ask for an IQ test LOL Are you smart enough to be a patient or is it dumb enough?
If I drive with a license that says expired and if pulled over show the cop my Greek looking papers will they eat me? Maybe if I speak with a Greek accent and act like I can read it – if it were Greek I would have a chance . … I so hope that my folks really did handle that speeding ticket I received when I was 14 on my bicycle – seriously I got one – because the new computer systems are all inter connected now and check for all prior un paid . … oh yeah when I clicked the FAQ about the silly RIN number it now says you do not need it “You no longer need the RIN to renew your drivers license online, but you do need to register as a certified user with the DMV to process your renewal.” I guess telling my first cats name did it eh?
After a post at THE MESS THAT IS MY MIND blog I thought I would track visitors for awhile again. Gosh it is funny really. I did discover that one of my posts has a very popular photo apparently. So I set up anti leech controls on it through cpanel and then took a look later. Still that post was getting hit a lot so I deleted the link to the larger version of the photo. Now the hits are getting lower and lower on that post and it’s rank in google has gone down. Amazing when folks cant snitch the pic how that works out. Not that visits to my blog are not important but rather have folks coming here to be friendly not stealing. I mean ask and I always do creative commons but when one pic is always getting hit I gotta assume the photos is getting used without attrition.
