happy birthday, katy
Dec. 2nd, 2005 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7It's my sister Katy's birthday. I'd phone her up, but I don't have her number. And the long-distance would break me anyway, given that I doubt Baghdad's in my calling plan. Still and all, happy 28th, Kay-kee.
Am in a semi-unreasonable amount of misery, as the dishwasher is broken at Landmark, and I washed a lot of dishes yesterday, and consequently have an eczema flare between all of my fingers, across the backs of my hands, and well down my wrists. It looks as though chipmunks have been chewing on my hands, and rather feels like it, with that unpleasant tingly prickling that suggests more blisters are forming as we speak. i actually cannot bend my right index finger because the skin on it is so heavily disfigured. I have applied all sorts of goo to them, from my expensive Lancome anti-aging face cream (which I only own because I had a tester of it and discovered that it was amazing at healing the signs of a past flare) to tea tree oil to gallons of varying sorts of moisturizer. Nothing works. The only thing I ever had that was even moderately effective was a tube of high-test cortisone shit, but even that couldn't do much. And of course I can't get it without a prescription.
Call a doctor! you might say. To that I have two answers.
1) No doctor has ever told me anything besides "avoid hot soapy water". Which has gone over like a lead balloon at home: Z still won't do dishes more than about twice a month. And will it work at work? "Sorry, guys. Can't do dishes. You'll have to wash 'em for me." ... Er, no. So, it's pretty fucking futile. What i want to know is, once it starts that prickling feeling and I know I'm going to have a flare, what can I do to stop it from hurting quite so badly? And nobody's really got an answer for me. (And yes, the last time I had health insurance the doctor refused to refer me to a dermatologist-- "there's still something I haven't tried yet. What if it's fungal?" You twat. I know it's not fungal. It's fucking eczema. I've had it since I was six months old.)
2) I got a letter. Yearly statement of blah blah from health insurance company. Read it anyway, out of curiosity. a) "Your premiums are going up to $379 a month." What??? I pay $18 a week through the union. b) List of possible coverages. "Health insurance: Terminated." WHAT??? I PAY $18 A WEEK THROUGH THE UNION. Everyone else at work got this letter too. Calls have been placed to the union. No answer has been heard. My paycheck as of last Friday still showed the health insurance deduction. They've no problem taking the money, but where does it GO?
THE ONLY REASON I HAVE THIS FUCKING JOB IS FOR THE HEALTH INSURANCE.
So yes. I need a doctor and they're fucking me around about whether I can have one. And I have another 8 hours with the non-functioning dishwasher today, during which I think my skin might actually FALL OFF.
Am I disgruntled?
Do I have to answer that?
Am in a semi-unreasonable amount of misery, as the dishwasher is broken at Landmark, and I washed a lot of dishes yesterday, and consequently have an eczema flare between all of my fingers, across the backs of my hands, and well down my wrists. It looks as though chipmunks have been chewing on my hands, and rather feels like it, with that unpleasant tingly prickling that suggests more blisters are forming as we speak. i actually cannot bend my right index finger because the skin on it is so heavily disfigured. I have applied all sorts of goo to them, from my expensive Lancome anti-aging face cream (which I only own because I had a tester of it and discovered that it was amazing at healing the signs of a past flare) to tea tree oil to gallons of varying sorts of moisturizer. Nothing works. The only thing I ever had that was even moderately effective was a tube of high-test cortisone shit, but even that couldn't do much. And of course I can't get it without a prescription.
Call a doctor! you might say. To that I have two answers.
1) No doctor has ever told me anything besides "avoid hot soapy water". Which has gone over like a lead balloon at home: Z still won't do dishes more than about twice a month. And will it work at work? "Sorry, guys. Can't do dishes. You'll have to wash 'em for me." ... Er, no. So, it's pretty fucking futile. What i want to know is, once it starts that prickling feeling and I know I'm going to have a flare, what can I do to stop it from hurting quite so badly? And nobody's really got an answer for me. (And yes, the last time I had health insurance the doctor refused to refer me to a dermatologist-- "there's still something I haven't tried yet. What if it's fungal?" You twat. I know it's not fungal. It's fucking eczema. I've had it since I was six months old.)
2) I got a letter. Yearly statement of blah blah from health insurance company. Read it anyway, out of curiosity. a) "Your premiums are going up to $379 a month." What??? I pay $18 a week through the union. b) List of possible coverages. "Health insurance: Terminated." WHAT??? I PAY $18 A WEEK THROUGH THE UNION. Everyone else at work got this letter too. Calls have been placed to the union. No answer has been heard. My paycheck as of last Friday still showed the health insurance deduction. They've no problem taking the money, but where does it GO?
THE ONLY REASON I HAVE THIS FUCKING JOB IS FOR THE HEALTH INSURANCE.
So yes. I need a doctor and they're fucking me around about whether I can have one. And I have another 8 hours with the non-functioning dishwasher today, during which I think my skin might actually FALL OFF.
Am I disgruntled?
Do I have to answer that?
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Date: 2005-12-02 02:35 pm (UTC)*sympathies*
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Date: 2005-12-02 02:40 pm (UTC)I can't wear gloves at work, sadly. At all. I was wearing the rubber ones from the kitchen to do the dishes, but those only come right to the end of my hands, and water inevitably gets in them, and then I've got the water trapped against my skin... Eh. Sigh. Suck!
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Date: 2005-12-03 12:57 am (UTC)