What do I do?
I am moving. I need to decide if I bring my spouse with me.It's tearing me apart.
View ArticleMoved--the more things change...
I've moved. I'm in New England, living alone in a rented room.
View ArticleKosAbility: A Day with Puka
KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a...
View ArticleRenting a Room and Finding a Home
It's been a while since I last wrote a diary, and things have changed in many ways. I thought I'd let you know what's been going on.
View ArticleI was going to write about my experience at the Free Clinic
...but I wasn't treated there.
View ArticleAfter the Free Clinic humiliation
Last Friday I called a local doctor's office that the Free Clinic directed me to after they refused to treat me because of my PTSD. I told them upfront that I had no insurance, no ability to pay, and...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving from Maine!
I may be an atheist, but there's much to be thankful for, even if I'm not praying!
View ArticleLorelei & Tracy's Yarnwork & Vintage Shop--Kos Katalogue Member
Aloha! I'm LoreleiHI, and I run an Etsy shop called Lorelei & Tracy's Yarnwork & Vintage Shop. Kossacks can use katalogue2011 to get a discount at our shop. :)You can also find us on FaceBook,...
View ArticleMahalo & Thank You!
Today hasn't been the best day... my housemate doesn't want to deal with my ex (I can't blame her), so my kids can't stay over for Christmas. It's getting colder, and my joints are freezing up. I'm...
View ArticleHousesharing--Upsides & Downsides
My spouse and I are poor. There's no getting around it.One way we deal with this is that we participate in a house share. We pay roughly what we would for 1 bedroom apartment, but we have all utilities...
View ArticleKosAbility: Chronic Pain
KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a...
View ArticleFinally, a full doctor's visit! :)
This is a happy diary, as a follow-up to my other diaries about health care for the uninsured.I am currently full of squee. Bear with me!
View ArticleA rant & a warning (Windows)
Please, please, by the love of all that's holy, if you're running a Windows OS:MAKE THE SYSTEM REPAIR DISC!
View ArticleKosAbility: "Doing something useful"
As most of you know from my past diaries, I'm disabled in a variety of ways. Physically and mentally, I'm pretty well fucked up. And part of my upbringing was that if I wasn't doing something useful, I...
View ArticleI'm OK, just AFK! :)
I've gotten a few texts and messages asking after me, so I thought I should send a quick note out to let you know that yes, I'm alive, and yes, I'm fine. :)
View ArticleIt's nice? to be home...
The room is a total wreck (of course). My clothes were washed and folded before I came home--I put them away straight from my suitcase. I'm overtired, overextended, overheated, and I just wish the past...
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Coming swiftly to the short end of the sanity stick
I've been threading a tablet weaving loom in an attempt to keep from destroying the room or myself (I guess I'm lucky Sarah didn't get my refill of clonopin). Crochet isn't enough anymore, it's too...
View ArticleHELP: Some one in Southern Maine, I need help ASAP
My landlady has been pushing all my worst buttons for a few months now. She knows them, because her mother used them on her.Tonight, she asked me an ambiguous question while turned away from me (I...
View ArticleTitrating Medication
I'm two-thirds of the way done titrating my much-needed Topamax, and as always when I'm at my wit's end, I've decided to diary about it so that there's something in the queue. :)
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